268 IIEMirrERA OF JAI'Ay—UHLIAl. 



interrupted on the basal middle and does not cover the humeral area; 

 disk with a round black spot, lower lateral border bright yellow; ster- 

 num yellowish white; mesopleura bright orange; legs long and slender; 

 the femora deep orange and crossed by one or two pale bands; tibiie 

 pale yellow, piceous at tip; tarsi piceous at tip. Scutellum inflated, 

 greenish yellow, with ;i black spot each side, another at base, and one 

 at tip; clavus orange, blackish at base, on the inner margin, and on the 

 tip, the outer margin deep bhu'k ; corium whitish, with a large, angu- 

 lar orange area running from the middle of the disk back to near the 

 inner angle with a triangular termination, the base of this spot bounded 

 by a black band, which keeps out to near the costal margin, another 

 black baiul crosses the whole width at base of cuneus, and the cuncus 

 is broadly margined along the inner side with black ; membrane mostly 

 dusky black, the veins blacker interior of cell, a spot next the outer 

 border, a slender scalloped transverse band across the apical margin 

 of the cells and cunei white; tergum black, with a yellow stri^jc each 

 side; venter yellow, somewhat blackish on the middle of connexivum. 



Length to tip of abdomen, 5() mm. ; Avidth of base of pronotum, 2 mm. 



Type.—yo. 3101, r.S.^\M, 



Nine specimens of this beautiful species are present in the collecrion. 

 Both sexes are represented. 



Family NABID.E. 



CORISCUS TAGALICUS, Stal. 

 Corhcim tagalicuH, Stal, fugen. Resa. Ins. p. 2(51. 

 Ten specimens are present in the collection, 



METATROPIPHORUS TABIDUS, new species. 



Narrow, subcylindrical, pale testaceous, form narrower than Cnriscvs 

 capsi/ormis. Head highly polished, chestnut brown, less brown behind 

 the eyes; antennae setaceous, very slender throughout, nearly one-half 

 longer than the body, dusky, a little darker at the tips of the first two 

 joints; clypeous gradually narrowing toward the apex, dark piceous 

 at base, paler at tip, very moderately curved; rostrum slender, reach- 

 ing almost to the middle coxa^, testaceous obscured with brownish. 

 Collum narrow, white, the anterior lobe of pronotum very convex, i>ol- 

 ished, chestiuit brown, much shorter and somewhat narrower than the 

 posterior lobe, constricted behind, the posterior lobe subtriangular, 

 distinctly punctate, dull, with the middle line and lateral margins i)ale 

 testaceous, posterior middle impressed, the humeri i)r()minent; pro- 

 pleura testacetnis, brown above, meso and meta pleura piceous; cox;e 

 and legs yellowish testaceous, spines of femora and tibiii? brown, apex 

 of tarsi i)iceous. Scutellum a little punctate, i)ale chestnut brown, 

 testaceous'at tip. Wing covers testacecms, clavus tinged with brown- 

 ish, slightly punctate, the coarse bounding lines piceous, veins piceous, 



