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Paurocephala psylloptera setifera Crawford. 



Pauropsylla triozoptera setifera Crawford, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 

 8 (1913) 297. 



Several specimens from Fiji Islands appear to belong to this 

 variety. The color is uniformly a little darker than the average 

 of the Philippine forms, but the markings on vertex and notum 

 are similar and the antennae are similarly colored, darker at tips 

 of segments 3 to 8. The body surface is a little less hirsute 

 than in the Philippine forms. By a mechanical error this variety 

 was originally placed with the wrong species. 



Fiji Islands (Muir), 2 males and 3 females, 1905. Singa- 

 pore (Baker), 1 male. The specimen from Singapore differs 

 from the type of the variety in being orange yellow with some 

 darker streaks on notum. The body surface and wing veins are 

 less hirsute, but the male genitalia are quite similar. 



Paurocephala brevicephala Crawford. 



Pauropsylla brevicephala Crawford, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 10 (1917) 

 163, pi. 1, fig. 11. 



This Philippine species was misplaced in the genus Paur- 

 opsylla. The wing venation, form of vertex and presence of the 

 metascutellum epiphysis point to its close affinity with species of 

 Paurocephala. A few additions to the original description are 

 here made. 



Vertex not prominently elevated at posterior ocelli, without 

 foveal impressions. Surface of vertex and dorsum finely re- 

 ticulately marked. Metascutellum produced upward into a thick 

 epiphysis with a very small, acute point. Hind legs longer than 

 others, but relatively shorter than in some other species of the 

 genus. Female genital segment turned downward, with tip of 

 dorsal valve curved outward, acute. The shortness of the an- 

 tennae is an unusual character in this genus. 



Mindanao, Davao (Baker), 3 females. 



Paurocephala minuta sp. nov. Plate I, fig. 8. 



Length of body, female, 0.9 millimeter; length of forewing, 

 1.4. General color brown to dark brown, with legs, venter, and 

 antenna? lighter or pale; a whitish or pale spot on thorax at 

 base of each forewing. Body small. 



Resembling P. psylloptera in many characteristics, and ap- 

 parently closely related to that species. Vertex relatively 

 broader and with foveal impressions and postocellar elevations 

 less prominent. Antenna? short, scarcely as long as width of 



