32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ifan.,."a2 
posterior tibial spurs somewhat spoonshaped, the inner the longer and 
the outer the heavier; tarsi, long and stout; claws, long and robust. 
Type in British Museum. Type locality, Formosa. 
Distribution. Formosa, Japan (Rev. H. Loomis); C. For- 
mosa, ’94; Formosa (Bowring), 63; British Museum (3)5 
Wellman Coll. (1). 
Waterhouse (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, 111, p. 407) referred 
this species to assamensis with a query. It is perfectly distinct. 
however, and may be told by the larger size, white marginal 
pubescence, the entire lack of long black hair on the sternum, 
and the heavier and sparser punctuation of the head. The 
specimen in my collection, labeled chinensis Cast., is not quite 
typical, being smaller, with a larger smooth area on the frons. 
Epicauta insularis Haag-Rut. var. montalbana n. var. 
Differs from typical specimens by having the pronotum uniformly 
dark red instead of black. Although the essential characters are iden- 
tical with insularis the color difference is so striking that any one 
would at first glance pronounce it a new species. 
This pretty variety was sent me by Mr. Charles S. Banks, 
Entomologist of the Bureau of Science, Manila, who writes 
concerning it as follows: ‘Those numbered 11,059 were found 
by Mr. W. Schultze, my assistant, very abundant at Montalban, 
about 30 kilometers from Manila. They were taken on the 
6th of June, 1909, and were present in thousands. Mr. Schultze 
says that wherever they touched his hand they caused tiny 
blisters.” 
I have in my collection typical specimens of insularis, also 
taken by Mr. Banks, and there is another series in the United 
States National Museum, from Benguet, ’03, and Manila, ’oo, 
sent by the same collector, who also reports in a letter to the 
writer the following other Philippine captures: Gen. Cissistes 
cephalotes ’o1. Manila, Sept., 03 (R. E. Brown, S. J.), Horia 
testacea ¥., Necrosis, P. 1; °o2;(Banks): 
Genus LYTTA F. 
Lytta signifrons Fabr. = L. coelestina Haag. 
L. hildebrandti Haag. = L. vittipennis Klbe. 
L,. flagellaria Er. is a Macrobasis. 
