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transversal shorter and nearly vertical; postmarginal almost 
wanting, shorter than the breadth of pterostigma ; radial curved, 
only one and a half times as long as basal. Tegule and tarsi 
testaceous. Abdomen convex, tapering conically behind. 
Length, 4.8 millimeters. 
MINDANAO, Butuan. 
Epyris magniceps sp. nov. 
Female.—Black, smooth, shining. Head almost twice as long 
as broad, quadrangular, with coarse and rather close punctures, 
very finely coriaceous between punctures. Eye hairy, elongate, 
only two-thirds as long as occiput; posterior ocelli three times 
as far from posterior margin of head as from each other; man- 
dible red-brown, narrow, with two black teeth; clypeus strongly 
keeled, sharply triangular. Palpi pale, maxillary palpus reach- 
ing beyond the middle of head, at least 4-jointed, the last 
three joints long, the first one very short. Antenna yellow-red, 
scape black-brown proximally, not so long as second and third 
joints united, second joint obconical, smaller and much thinner 
than the following ones, these cylindrical, third and fourth al- 
most transverse, the following ones as long as or somewhat 
longer than thick. 
Pronotum elongate, broader behind, almost twice as long as 
mesonotum, punctured like the head; mesonotum smooth in the 
anterior two-thirds, coarsely punctured in the posterior third; 
parapsidal furrows almost parallel, much widened behind. 
Seutellum very finely coriaceous, punctured only behind the 
grooves, with a crossrow of punctures in front of posterior 
margin; grooves oval, oblique, separated from each other by 
twice their diameter. Median segment longer than broad, 
marginate laterally and posteriorly, cross-wrinkled, with three 
contiguous, parallel, longitudinal carinz, the middle one contin- 
uous, the other two nearly so; posterior surface very finely, 
transversely aciculate, with a median carina. Metapleura 
finely, longitudinally aciculate, mesopleura coarsely punctured. 
Tegula yellow-red. 
Wing yellowish; pterostigma yellow like the veins, lanceolate, 
narrow; postmarginal wanting; basal very oblique, arising in 
the distal end of subcostal, transversal as oblique and as long 
as basal; radial almost four times as long as basal. Middle 
tibia, distal ends of the remaining tibiz, and tarsi yellow-red, 
middle tibia unspined. Joints 2 to 4 of fore tarsus heart-shaped, 
