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ON SOxME 

 HETEROPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



by É. Ker^rolli 



The following short notes are pubhshed hi view of the synonymie 

 Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the PhUippines soon to be brought 

 ont by Prof. C. F. Bakkr, now a résident of thèse islands. A num- 

 ber of new and partly very interesting species recently sent by 

 Prof. Baker to the Helsingfors Muséum will be described by me 

 elsewhere. 



SCUTELLERID.E 



1. Gosmocoris pulcherrimus C. Baxks (1909), of wliich 

 Mr. Banks kindly sent me a type, is idenlical with C. cingulatiis 

 Bredd., of which a prehminary diagnose appeared in J905 and 

 a fuU description in 1912. 



PENTATOMID.^ 



2. Ectenus mesoleucus n. sp. — Elongato-ovahs, supra sub- 

 opacus, smaragdineus, parce irregulariter (in pronoto subhivitta- 

 tim) ochraceo-conspersus, mesocorio (basi et apice exceptis), endo- 

 corio (basi excepta) areaque basah triangulari scutelH médium 

 hujus attingente in purpureum vergentibus, margine apicali pro- 

 noti (pone oculos interrupto), carina laterali- marginal i prolhoracis 

 ab apice ultra médium (summo margine piceo excepto), maculis 

 tribus irregularibus basalibus scutelli (lateralibus majoribus ad 

 angulos positis), parte fere tota postfrenali scutelli dimidioque 

 exteriore marginis apicalis corii stramineis, capile, pronoto scntel- 

 loque fortiter sat dense punctatis, hoc intra dimidium apicale 

 frenorum densius et minus fortiter punctato, parte poslfrenali 

 straminea usque ad apicem remote fusco-punctulata, corio quam 

 pronoto haud remotius sed multo subtilius punctato, exocorio 

 nonnihil fortius et densius punctato ; subtus llavo-testaceus, vitta 

 lata laterali capitis et pectoris (in dimidio posleriore mesopleurse 

 interrupta et ad marginem posticam metapleurœ dilatata) smarag- 

 dinea, vitta sublaterali ventris cum spiraculis nigra, macula média 

 segmenti sexti picea, lobis genitalibus basalibus feminaî macula 

 magna rotundata nigra notatis. Caput pronoto distincte brevius, 

 cum oculis apice pronoti paullulo latins, inter oculos et tubercula 

 antennifera parallelum, parte anteoculari subseque lata ac longa, 

 rostro médium segmenti tertii ventris subattingente, flavo-testaceo, 

 articulo ultimo nigro, antennis fusco-nigris, ima basi articulorum 



