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Described from a pair collected at Manila, the female on Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1917, and the male on April 5, 1917. The male is 

 slightly smaller than the female but shows the same characteristic 

 grayish white pubescence. Type and allotype in my collection. 



Cryptaspidia tagalica Stal. 

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

 One female taken June 1, 1918. 



Cryptaspidia elevata sp. nov. Plate I, fig. 7. 



Recognized by the thick, elevated posterior process and the 

 auriculate humeral angles. 



Black, punctate, hairy ; no suprahumeral horns ; humeral angles 

 projecting as broad rounded lobes; scutellum entirely concealed; 

 posterior process suddenly turned upward at tip ; tegmina marked 

 with black. 



Head wider than long, black, densely covered with long yel- 

 lowish hairs which entirely conceal the punctation; base weakly 

 sinuate; eyes large, brown; ocelli prominent, pearly, a little 

 farther from each other than from the eyes and situated, slightly 

 above a line passing through centers of eyes; clypeus wider 

 than long, oval, extending only a little below the rounded outline 

 of the inferior margins of the gense, tip broadly rounded and 

 hairy. 



Pronotum black, punctate, thickly covered with long, yellow- 

 ish hairs; metopidium very convex, rounded, wider than high, 

 slightly flanged at inferior margin; humeral angles produced 

 into broad earlike lobes rounded at tips; suprahumeral horns 

 absent; posterior process short, heavy, much depressed at base, 

 suddenly elevated at apex to form a heavy flattened spine, tip 

 suddenly acute, flattened laterally and having carinse above, 

 below, and in the center of each side and reaching just beyond 

 the internal angles of tegmina. 



Tegmina closely impinging on lateral margins of pronotum; 

 smoky hyaline, base and basal fourth of costal margin black and 

 punctate; faint brown band across center of tegmen below in- 

 ternal angle, most distinct at costal edge. 



Undersurface of body black and very hairy. Posterior tro- 

 chanters unarmed. Legs uniform brown ; tibias armed with long, 

 thin, spinous hairs, distal ends with black spines. 



Length, 7 millimeters ; width between tips of humeral angles, 

 3.8. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio (Baker) . 



Type, a female. 



