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base; styles long, narrow, curved slightly upward, apex round, ventral 

 edge slightly sinuous, dorsal edge complex, a small process with 

 rounded apex arising from middle. 



9 Yellow, inclining to scarlet, a dark scarlet mark through mid- 

 dle of face to eyes, antennae brown; tegmina white, opaque with 

 waxy secretion, veins yellow, reddish along costa, yellowish over 

 clavus, along hind margin, apical portion of cubital cell and more or 

 less over apical cells, scarlet mark near base of media, on cubitus and 

 over median cells to apex; wings hyaline opaque with waxy secre- 

 tion, reddish yellow veins. 



Last abdominal sternite a little wider than long, rotundately pro- 

 duced from sides to middle; anal segment large, boatshape, bluntly 

 rounded at apex, anus in middle. 



Length 2.5mm. ; tegmen 4.5mm. 



Hal). Bendoredjo, Java, on palm tree. (Mnir, Marcli.) 

 In spite of the difference in color I feel snre that these are the 

 sexes of the same species ; more matnre females may be scarlet 

 like the male. 



Epotioceeus Mats. 



(1) flexuosus (Ilhler). 



Otiocerus fJexuosiis Uhler, 1896, Pro. Nat. Mns. F. S. A., 

 p 283; Matsnmura, 1904, 1000 Ins. Japan, II, p. 61., PI. 

 XXI, fig. 13. 



Nicerta flexuosa Mnir 1914, Pro. Haw. Ent. Soc, YIII, 

 1, p. 48. 



E poiiocerus flexuosus Matsnmnra 1914, Ann. Mns. Xat. 

 Hnng., p. 300. 



The validity of this genns cannot be jndged withont com- 

 parison with the type of Nicerta. 



^ Ventral edge of pygophor produced into a small trapezoidal 

 plate, longer than broad, base slightly broader than apex, each corner 

 of apex produced into a small spine; lateral edges entire, slightly 

 curved; anal segment slightly longer than broad, sides turned upward 

 boatshape, apex slightly emarginate, anus in middle; styles longer 

 than anal segment, ventral edge slightly sinuate, curved upward to- 

 wards apex, dorsal edge deeply sinuate, pointed apex turned inward, 

 a keel runs from apex to base on outer surface. 



9 Posterior edge of last abdominal sternite steeply and rotund- 

 ately produced to middle, the produced portion longer than the basal 

 portion, middle slightly "lipped". 



Specimens from Formosa differ slightly in genitalia from 



