from the Philippine Islands. 217 



I notice, are unimportant: the front, above the antennae, is still more 

 turgid, and forms a conspicuous bump; the interval between the lunule 

 and the eye on each side in a little broader; the face being a little 

 longer, the antennae do not quite reach the peristoma; the abdomen 

 is, comparatively, a little smaller; the fourth segment is of nearly the 

 some length as the second and third. Chaetotaxy exactly the same. — 

 Wings. Costa and first vein beset with very short hairs; third 

 vein, on its proximal half with a few, very small, sparse bristles. 

 Auxiliary vein closely approximate to the first; its ending in the costa 

 is obsolete; the first vein, before the middle of the wing comes in 

 contact with the costa, and runs alongside of it for a long distance, 

 until they gradually coalesce in the apical portion of the wing. The 

 second and third veins diverge very early; the second forms a gentle 

 curve upwards and runs, some distance before its end, close alongside 

 the first vein. The third vein also forms a long flat curve, convexity 



rig. 4. 



Philocompus cupidus. 

 upwards, and ends in the apex. The fourth, before its end, is deeply 

 bisinuate; the long, oblique anterior crossvein is inserted in the first 

 sinus. The posterior crossvein forms a strong, almost angular, bend, 

 which sometimes emits a stump of a vein. Fifth vein nearly straight. 

 Second basal and anal cells of moderate size and equal length 5 the 

 latter not drawn out in a point. 



From what has been said above, the relationship of the genus to 

 Antineura is obvious. 



Philocomjnis means boaster, braggart. 



Philoco'inpus cupidus n. sp. g Q. 



Reddish -yellow; frontal bump black, with violet reflections; facial 

 and frontal orbits sericeous-golden; third antennal joint brown, arista 

 white, yellowish at base. Thorax with the middle of the dorsum black, 

 with metallic violet reflections; this black dorsal color shows on each 

 side a broad interruption at the thoracic suture; it gradually disappears 

 in front of the scutellum; a more or less large greenish-black spot on 

 the pleura. I have a pale-colored specimen in which the black on the 

 thorax in replaced by faint indication of two longitudinal brownish stri- 



