NEW RECORDS AND SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE 

 MEMBRACIDiE 



By W. D. Funkhouser 

 Of the Zoological Laboratory, University of Kentucky 



ONE PLATE 



Since the publication of a revised checklist of the Membra- 

 cidse described from the Philippine Islands * some very inter- 

 esting new species and records have been received from Mr. 

 R. C. McGregor, of the Bureau of Science, Manila, and from 

 Prof. C. F. Baker, of the College of Agriculture, Los Bahos, 

 P. L, the study of which throws considerable light on the dis- 

 tribution and the range of certain species that are extremely 

 rare. 



Most of the material on which this paper is based was col- 

 lected by Mr. McGregor in Antique Province, Panay Island, 

 and on the small island of Batbatan, just off the west coast of 

 Panay. Other valuable records received from Mr. McGregor 

 were secured in Laguna and Rizal Provinces, Luzon Island, a 

 few of them from the immediate environs of Manila. Mr. Mc- 

 Gregor has secured the first data to be published on the food 

 plants of a number of the species and has also collected for 

 several species the nymphal forms, which have never been re- 

 corded. I am greatly indebted to Mr. McGregor and again to 

 Professor Baker for the opportunity of studying this very in- 

 teresting material. 



Centrochares horrificus Westw. Plate I, fig. 1. 



Add : Habitat. — Panay, Antique Province, Culasi (McGregor) . 

 Host. — Acalypha stipulacea Klotz. 



A good series of nineteen specimens collected at Culasi by 

 Mr. McGregor in 1918. Six males and six females were taken 

 May 18, in the forest at an altitude of about 700 meters; one 

 male and four females, on May 27, on shoots from a stub of 

 Acalypha stipulacea; one female, on May 29, and one female, 

 on June 15. 



In spite of the long series of specimens of this species from 

 the Islands which I have seen at various times, I am unable to 



1 Funkhouser, W. D., Notes on the Philippine MembracidEe, Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. § D 13 (1918) 21-38. 



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