550 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
Female.—Head transverse, nearly as broad behind eyes as 
at eyes; temples convex; occiput deeply concave, completely 
margined; vertex long, the ocelli placed well forward of a line 
drawn tangent to posterior margins of eyes; frons concave; 
cheeks broad, weakly buccate but widely visible in front view 
of head; malar space broad, though much narrower than man- 
dibles; eyes large, strongly convex; face slightly elevated in 
middle and at sides below; clypeus large, broad, separated from 
face only weakly by elevation, broadly arcuate at apex, fovee 
small; labrum scarcely exserted; mandibles large, strongly 
curved, bidentate at apex, the teeth large, the upper somewhat 
the longer; maxillary palpi very long, reaching well beyond 
apex of front cox, second joint triangular; antenne much 
shorter than body, slightly incrassate and flattened beneath 
beyond middle; thorax short and stout; dorsolateral margins 
of pronotum callose, epomia strong; notauli indicated by the 
elevation of the prescutum; scutellum large, about as broad at 
base as long, sides subparallel, rounded at apex, margined to apex, 
flattened above, elevated and precipitous at apex, separated from 
mesoscutum by a very deep and narrow furrow; postscutellum 
and its lateral fovese foveolate; prepectal carina strong to near 
top of mesopleura, with a deep angulation at the sternaulus, 
the latter broadly and weakly impressed ; mesopleural furrow 
foveolate; subalar tubercle with a high, flangelike carina; pro- 
podeum rounded above, declivous behind, without spines, areo- 
lated only in basal half, areola large, rounded in front, open 
behind, extending very nearly to base, spiracular area open 
behind, the spiracles long slitlike; pleural carina complete; legs 
rather long, slender, the calcaria long, claws pectinate; wings 
rather short, second abscissa of radius curved at base, areolet 
oblique trapezoidal, discocubitus weakly curved, with ramellus 
represented by a slight angulation; nervulus strongly postfurcal ; 
nervellus reclivous, broken near base; abdomen long, narrow, 
acute at apex, with seven visible tergites, the last as long as’ 
sixth; first tergite curved, petiole slightly wider than thick, 
postpetiole very broad, depressed, spiracles large, elongate; 
second tergite with large, shallow, subtriangular gastroceeli at 
outer anterior corners, partially hidden by second tergite; ovi- 
positor exserted. 
Type, Ctenocharidea luzonensis sp. nov. 
Ctenocharidea luzonensis sp. nov. 
Female.—Length, 15 millimeters; antenne, 10; front wing, 
10. Head mostly polished impunctate; face and malar space 
