NEW LACEBUGS—DRAKE AND RUHOFF 137 
Perissonemia absita, new species 
Fiaure 11 
Description: Moderately large, oblong, brownish testaceous, 
with the veinlets of collum, paranota, and costal areas testaceous, 
the areolae hyaline and iridescent; body beneath dark stramineous; 
labium brown, with apex black; laminae of buccal and rostral sulci 
testaceous. Legs brownish testaceous, sparsely clothed with minute, 
golden, scalelike pubescence. Antennae brownish fuscous, with the 
first three segments sparsely clothed with minute, golden, flake- 
like pubescence, fourth segment with grayish pubescent hairs. 
Eyes large, reddish fuscous. Length 3.25 mm., width (elytra) 1.15 
mm. 
Head very short, slightly produced in front of eyes, blackish fuscous, 
armed with short brownish tuberclelike processes; bucculae widest 
behind, closed in front; labium reaching on to metasternum. 
Antenniferous tubercles short, rounded in front, not spiniform. 
Antennae long, slender; segmental measurements: I, 30; II, 20; III, 
105; IV, 54. Hypocostal lamina uniseriate. Metathoracic scent 
glands with ostiole and upright sulcus on each metapleuron. 
Pronotum moderately convex across humeri, reticulately punctate, 
tricarinate; median carina percurrent, slightly elevated, without 
distinct areolae (elevated and areolate between calli); lateral carinae 
less elevated, becoming indistinct anteriorly in front of middle of 
pronotal disc; collum raised, areolate, truncate in front, slightly pro- 
duced posteriorly at middle; paranotum narrow, long, uniseriate, 
wider adjacent to calli, there with two extra areolae. 
Elytra extending beyond apex of abdomen, slightly wider than 
humeral width; costal area fairly wide, composed of one row of large, 
quadrate or rectangular areolae; subcostal area sloping slowly down- 
ward, triseriate, the areolae small; discoidal area acutely angulate 
at both base and apex, widest behind middle, there five areolae deep; 
sutural area with areolae much larger than those in discoidal and 
subcostal areas, on same horizontal level as discoidal area. Hind 
wings shorter than elytra, clouded with fuscous. 
Type: Holotype (male), Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines, C. F. 
Baker, USNM 65119. 
Remarks: The holotype of P. absita is illustrated in figure 11. 
The species is allied to P. kietana, new species, but is readily sepa- 
rated from it by the longer antennae, less elevated pronotal carinae 
(all pronotal carinae without areolae), and the triseriate subcostal 
area, 
