78 Philippine Journal of Science 



this and margin. Scutellar body sculptured like pronotum, the 

 area of scutellar furrow slightly depressed, without raised 

 margins, the strong reticula here greatly lengthened horizontally 

 to form a series of horizontal carinas; inferoposterior margin 

 practically absent, the normal inferoposterior tooth of the other 

 Machserotinse adjoining the base of the spine. All pleura? 

 strongly rugose; seven tergites thickly, finely rugose-punctate; 

 lower surface of femora bisulcate. Apex of spine 3 millimeters 

 above ends of tegmina. 



A specimen of this unique insect was taken on Penang Island, 

 Wellesley Province, Straits Settlements ; this is the first record, 

 belonging to the Asian mainland, for this genus. 



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