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Genus SPANIOCELYPHUS Hendel 



This genus is limited in this paper to those species which have a 

 sharp vertex without well-developed postvertical bristles, and the 

 discal and posterior basal cells of wing separated by a distinct cross 

 vein. In addition to these characters all species available to me have 

 the palpi much less dilated at apices than have the species of Acely- 

 phiis, and there is a pseudosuture on each side of each abdominal ter- 

 gite which divides the surface into three almost equal portions and 

 causes them to bend rather sharply over, almost angularly so, in sharp 

 contradistinction to those of Acelyphus. The frons is also shorter 

 than it is in Acelyphus. 



There appear to be five species in the material before me only three 

 of which I consider are already described, though it is possible some 

 of the others are among those so imperfectly described by some of 

 the older authors that they can not be reliably identified. 



Genotype. — Celyplius scutatus Wiedemann. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



1. Scutellum shallowly and coarsely pitted on almost the entire surface, only the 



the apex smooth 2. 



Scutellum entirely smooth or with but faint traces of shallow pitting 

 basally 3. 



2. Apical section of superior foreceps of male hypopygium long, tapering to 



tip (figs. 1 and 2) ; Philippine species scutatus Wiedemann. 



Apical section of superior foreceps of male hypopygium short and broad, 

 somewhat boot shaped (figs. 2 and 3) ; Formosan species. 



formosanus Malloch. 



3. Anterior margin of thorax, including the humeri and propleura, fulvous; 



hypopygium of male as Figures 4 and 5 sumatranus, new species. 



Thorax entirely metallic blue, not fulvous anteriorly except sometimes on the 

 propleura 4. 



4. Face and frons entirely deep metallic blue nigrocoeruleus, new species. 



Head fulvous, with blue tinge on face and frous laevis van der Wulp? 



SPANIOCELYPHUS SCUTATUS Wiedemann 



Spaniocelj/phus scutatus WiEn)EMANN Aussereur. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 2, p. 601, 1830. 



I have before me many specimens of this species from the Philip- 

 pines, and present figures of the male hypopygium of one of these 

 specimens. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Localities, Manila; Mount Maquiling, Luzon; Davao, Mindanao; 

 and Tangcolan, Bukidnon (C. F. Baker) ; Rangoon, Burma, Marcli. 

 1927 (F. J. Meggitt.) 



SPANIOCELYPHUS FORMOSANUS Malloch 



Spanioceli/phus formosanus M.vli.och, Eiit. Mitt. vol. 16, p. 161, 1927. 



This Formosan species was described in my paper already referred 

 to herein. I present now figures of the hypopygium of the male. 

 (Figs. 3, 4.) 



