286 HEMIPTERA OF JAPAX—rHLEB. vouxix. 



in the males, grayish drab in the females, wider than long, angularly 

 curbed, with the tip callous and a little recurved, pale, followed behind 

 by a broad impression, the surface generally uneven, closely covered 

 with grayish pubescence; eyes oblique, (;ontinuing the curve of the 

 lateral margin, brown; front tumidly convex, mostly black, coarsely 

 ribbed, longer than wide, separated from the si>indleshai»ed clypeus by 

 a constricted interval; rostrum blade, pale in the middle, reaching to 

 the middle coxic. Pronotuni uneven, Avider than long, closely i)ubes- 

 cent, triangularly emarginate i)Osteriorly, callosities wide apart, trans- 

 verse, suboval, indente<l in the middle, the surface unevenly granulated 

 and with some obsolete punctures, lateral margins a little obli(iue, mid- 

 dle line sulcated. Scutellum faintly each side of the middle, minutely 

 shagreened and i)unctate, with the sides feebly sinuated, the middle 

 with a short prominent, thick ridge, tip acute and pale. Wing-covers 

 much inflated, as usual longer than the body, the inner margin of apex 

 oblique, the outer oblique and a little curved, the base uneven, with 

 two or three impressed spaces on and interior to the costal area, one 

 of these runs from costa diagonally inward, base with a large trian- 

 gular black spot, which starts at the scutellum and runs back obliquely 

 outward to behind the middle of the costa, from this a broad band 

 runs'obli(]uely inward behind the apex of the clavus; inner corner of 

 corium with a black spot, which is sometimes forked; i^ale portion of 

 disk dotted with black in the female; surface generally pubescent. 

 Legs piceous or black, the posterior tibia' bounded with pale. Meso- 

 sternum with a pale spot. 



Length to apex of wing covers, 7-'.> mm. : width of i)ronotuni, .">-;>.^ mm. 



Type.—^o. 3133, U.S.I^.M. 



Twenty-six specimens of this line species are present in this collec- 

 tion. Tlie black markings on the wing-covers of the male are more 

 shari)ly defined and concentrated than in the female. The male is also 

 relatively rounder and broader than the female. 



PHILAGRA ALBINOTATA, new species. 



Robust, subovate, obscure dark brown, marked with a costal longi- 

 tudinal pale, angular spot, or with a rhomboidal spot near the costal 

 apex and two or more pale spots on the disk of the wing-covers. Head 

 produced, recurved toward the tip, forming a cylindrical tapering horn, 

 with a ])olished callous ti]), shagreened and somewhat ])unctate on the 

 mi<ldle and basal part of vertex; face polished, having a broad yellow 

 vittata which, originating near the tip, forks to follow the margin l)a(;k 

 to base and then continues upon the pleura to jwsterior coxa*; rostrum 

 stout, piceous, reaching to middle coxa'. Pronotuni a little wider than 

 long, scabious, a little coarsely i)niictate in front, pubescent, with a 

 y<'llow spot each side next the callosities, posterior margin deeply, 

 triangularly emarginated, with a slender carinate line on the middle 

 which continues on the head; scutellum with an ivory-yellow spot at 



