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Family XXII. MELLINID^E. 



Genus MEGALOMMA Smith. 

 MEGALOMMA QUADRICINCTUM, new species. 



Female. — Length, 7 mm. Black; face, clypeus, a line on inner orbits 

 opposite the insertion of the antennsv, a spot at base of mandibles, 

 the palpi, scape, pedicel, the first joint of the flagellum ])eneath, the 

 two terminal joints of antennie beneath, a line on the pronotum above 

 and enclosing the tubercles, or the hind angles of the pronotum, the 

 teguhe, a spot on each side of the mesonotum next the teguh^, the 

 postscutellum. the apices of femora, all til>ife, except the hind tibia? 

 beneath and the last joint of the hind tarsi, two spots on first segment 

 of abdomen at ap(>x, and bands at apex of dorsal segments 2, 3, -i, and 

 5, yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins black. 



The flagellum is strongly clavate; the eyes are very large, strongly 

 facetted, and converge anteriorly; there is no malar space; the thorax 

 above is rather coarsely punctured, the metathorax less strongly 

 punctured, with a smooth median space at base above, the posterior 

 face with some silveiy pile. 



%>.^.— Cat. No. 7097, U,S.N.M. 



Manila. (Fathei" Stanton.) 



Family XXVI 1. CEROPAUD.E. 



Sul^ramily I. PKPSHSTJE. 



PSEUDOSALIUS, new genus. 



This genus is proposed for a ceropalid found in the Philippines, in 

 our catalogues under the name SaUus Ijvpart'itns Lepeletier. A study 

 of a specimen shows that it is not a SaHus, but comes much closer to 

 the genera Calicvrgm and Ferreolomorplia., but is easih' separated by 

 having the submedian cell in the front wings distinctl}^ shorter than 

 the median. The claw^s, too, are also difl'erent from those in Salixx-, 

 in the female they are cleft. The metanotum is transversely wrinkled 

 or striated, the labrum subexserted, the mandibles bidentate, the 

 maxillar}^ palpi 0-jointed, the third joint, the longest, as long as the 

 first and second united, while the labial palpi are -l-jointed, the second 

 joint being the longest. 



Genus PAI^LOSOMA Lepeletier. 



To this genus l)elongs >Sa//'tfs f>il<j!dipenn{s Saussure, which is 

 reported from the Philippines. It agrees perfectly with the structural 

 characters given for this genus, although the wings are not margined 

 with ])lack at apex, as in other species. 



