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collection, dealated adult, No. 433 of general collection, winged 
adult from No. 443 of general collection. “~ 
Cotypes.—No. 67 (del Rosario), Manila; No. 483 (Light), 
Manila; No. 443 (Gamboa), Manila; No. 448 (Aguila), Manila, 
in general collection. 
DIAGNOSIS 
Adult——Very small, less than 5 millimeters long without 
wings; slender, dark, with narrow, dark wings; antennze long, 
with 13 to 15 segments, third smallest. 
Soldier.—Very short, about 3.25 millimeters long; head short, 
thick and high, bulldoglike, frontal region very strikingly de- 
veloped with distinctly bilobed dorsal margin, anterior cavity 
deep; a distinct median dorsal cavity present; anterior and ante- 
rodorsal margins of the antennal foveola extended anteriorly to 
form a flat projection (spine) with rounded tip. 
Larve and nymphs.—Small and slender. 
DESCRIPTIONS 
Adult.—Head flat, longer than broad; disregarding the eyes, 
nearly parallel-sided, sparsely haired; eyes not large or promi- 
nent, ocellus elongate in an anterodorsal direction, in contact with 
the eye in front of its middle. Antenne more than twice as 
long as width of head, 13 to 15 segments, first segment large and 
cylindrical, second smaller and cylindrical, third smallest, thickly 
obconic, fourth to sixth gradually increasing in size, thicker 
than third, and with rounded distal ends, eighth to thirteenth 
(when 14) increasingly long and with thicker distal ends, last 
as long as thirteenth but narrow and oval in shape; antennze 
with scattered larger hairs and a dense coat of short straight 
hairs. Labrum swollen, yellow; anteclypeus white; postclypeus 
brown, about as long as anteclypeus, remainder of head brown; 
pronotum brown, arched, narrower than the head (with eyes), 
concave anteriorly, sides somewhat rounded, posterolateral 
corners bluntly rounded, posterior margin nearly straight, 
slightly notched at center. Anterior wing scales brown, much 
longer than the posterior pair and reaching to or beyond the 
middle of the latter; abdominal tergites dark brown, metano- 
tum yellow, giving the appearance of a transverse light band 
in dorsal view, abdominal sterna brown with a narrow median 
light area. 
Wings slender, cloudy gray, iridescent; median and cubitus 
very slightly chitinized except at base in some specimens, costa 
and radius sector heavily chitinized, gray-brown; all veins and 
