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Length of body 33, length of pronotum 10.4, caudal width of 

 pronotal disk 5.1, depth of pronotal lateral lobe 5.4, median width 

 of pronotal lateral lobe 8.4, length of tegmen 43.5, median width 

 of tegmen 7.3, distal width of tegmen 8.7, length of cephalic femur 

 11.8, length of caudal femur 27.7, length of ovispositor 17.7, width 

 of ovipositor beyond base 2.2, width of ovipositor mesad 2.9 mm. 



The type is unique. 



Nicsara philippina new species. Plate XV, figure 8; plate XVIII, figures 6 and 7- 



Apparently nearest N. taylori here described, the present species 

 is quickly separated by the suffused but much paler face, solidly 

 black irregular bands separating the disk from the lateral lobes of 

 the pronotum, not as decided convex callosity of the lateral lobes 

 below the humeral sinus, delicately though distinctively marked 

 limbs, decidedly more elongate ovipositor which is curved less 

 strongly upward and tapers evenly from the basal portion and 

 dark spines of the ventral femoral margins. 



Discovery of the male of taylori will probably show marked 

 genitalic differences to further distinguish that sex of these species. 



Type: cf 1 ; Mount Makiling, Luzon, Philippine Islands. (From 



C. F. Baker.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 838.] 



Agrees fully with the description of taylori, except in the following 

 features. Size somewhat smaller and caudal margin of the pro- 

 notal disk slightly more convex, as would be expected for the male 

 when compared with the female sex. Convex callosity of lateral 

 lobes of pronotum normal for the genus, not as decided as in taylori. 

 Ultimate tergite truncate distad and hairy; supra-anal plate vertical 

 and largely concealed by the arms of the cerci. Cerci heavy, very 

 short, convex conical, but with minute apex acute, in length slightly 

 exceeding their proximal width; meso-dorsad furnished on the 

 internal surface with a cylindrical arm as long as the cercus, directed 

 mesad with distal portion bent slightly meso-caudad, tapering to 

 the apex which is armed with a heavy, weakly curved spine; beyond 

 this on the ventro-internal margin of the cercus is another arm, 

 forming with it a V-shaped interval with apex truncate, this more 

 distal arm two-thirds as elongate, straight, similarly cylindrical 

 and tapering to the rounded apex which is armed with a similar 

 spine on its proximal face, this spine forming an obtuse angulation 

 with the shaft of this arm. Subgenital plate feebly tricarinate 

 d : stad, these carinae low and rounded, the distal margin between 

 the styles angulate-emarginate at slightly less than ninety degrees, 

 the lateral projections thus formed with apices bluntly rounded. 

 Styles situated there in sockets at apices of the lateral carinae, 

 straight, cylindrical, slightly flattened proximad and there very 

 slightly narrower than at the rounded apex, each slightly over 

 three times as long as greatest width. Femoral genicular lobes as 

 in taylori. Ventral femoral margins armed with similar spines, as 



