1909.] W. L. Distant : Rhynchota Malayana. 165 



castaneous connexivum, narrower pronotum, and different colour 

 and markings of the body beneath. 



In the fisure the abdomen is a Httle too elongate. 



Fam. LYG^ID^. 



Genus Macropes. 



Macropes, Motsch., Et. Ent.^ viii, p 108 (1859). 

 Type M. spinimanus, Motsch. 



Macropes philippinensis , sp. no v. (PI. xi, figs. 7, 7 a.) 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, abdomen above, body beneath and 

 legs black; first and second joints of antennae and the tarsi sordid 

 ochraceous ; abdomen beneath ochraceously pilose ; hemeWtra 

 pale creamy yellow, base, central vein and outer margin of clavus, 

 apical angular area of corium, base of membrane and a large 

 discal spot, black; antennse with the second and fourth joints 

 subequal in length, each longer than third ; rostrum passing the 

 anterior coxse ; pronotum with the anterior lobe smooth, broad, 

 convexly narrowed to head, centrally, finely, longitudinally 

 sulcate, behind the sulcation broadl}^, transversely, opaquely granu- 

 lose ; membrane not quite reaching the apex of the fourth abdominal 

 segment ; scutellum apically, centrall}', longitudinall}^ carinate ; 

 anterior femora very strongly incrassated and strongly spinous 

 beneath. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Hab. — Philippine Islands (C. S. Banks; Brit. Mus.). 



Fam. TINGIDID^. 



Genus Elasmognathus. 



Ela$mognathus , Fieb., Ent. Monogr., pp. 30 and 90 (1844). 

 T^'^pe E. helferi, Fieb. 



Elasmognathus picturatus , sp. nov. (PI. x, figs. 4, 4a.) 



Head piceous, greyishly pilose ; antennae pale ochraceous, the 

 apical joint (excluding base) piceous, first and second joints 

 brownish ; pronotum castaneous, the anterior vesicle or hood and 

 the produced lateral areas dull greyish white, the margins of the 

 areolets darker ; hemelytra with the discoidal and subcostal areas 

 pale tawny, an oblique central line to the first and the margins of 

 the latter castaneous-brown ; costal area very pale stramineous with 

 a dark castaneous spot beyond middle and a larger spot of the 

 same colour at apex ; sutural area greyish-brown ; body beneath 

 castaneous, thickly, greyishly pilose ; legs pale ochraceous ; first 

 and second joints of antennae strongly incrassate, fourth longer 

 than first and second together ; pronotum with the anterior hood 



