23.4 Baker: Malayan Jassoidea 357 



since the Philippine form averages larger than the typical form, 

 it may be distinguished by the varietal name philippinensis. 

 While a very common insect at both Singapore and Penang, it 

 has been very infrequently encountered in the Philippines ; but 

 the latter statement means little, due to our scant knowledge of 

 the Philippine field. 



Signoretia maculata sp. no v. Plate 1, fig. 4. 



Pale ochraceous (probably more or less virescent in life) ; a 

 large oblique spot in each lateral area of vertex, a small median 

 quadrangular spot near anterior margin of pronotum, a small 

 elongate median spot near posterior margin ; entire costal margin 

 (more strongly basally) , claval suture, and commissural margin 

 piceous. Tegmina subhyaline, the veins concolorous. Median 

 vein broadly inf uscated, the other veins basally, concolorous with 

 surface. Length of female, 19 millimeters. 



Length of face (Plate 1, fig. 4, c) a little greater than width 

 across eyes. Front and clypeus ridged as in S. malaya, but the 

 swollen median elevation of the clypeus (Plate 1, fig. 4, b) is 

 somewhat nearer the base than in that species. The upper 

 bordering carina of the ocellar area is not continuous across the 

 anterior margin of crown as in S. malaya, but runs out on the 

 smooth surface of the crown before reaching median line. 

 Ocellus distant the length of its own diameter from the eye. 

 Length of vertex less than half its width between the eyes. Disk 

 of vertex not so strongly depressed as in S. malaya, the surface 

 minutely sparsely roughened but not tuberculate, the median 

 carina low, broad, and indistinct; each lateral area with a 

 delicate curved median carina which anteriorly joins the inner 

 end of the supraocular carina. Pronotum (Plate 1, fig. 4, a) 

 about four times length of vertex; the anterior lateral margin 

 a little more than three times into the width; marginal carina 

 and pleura (lateral view) as in S. malaya. The thimble pitting 

 of pronotum is coarser than in S. malaya, the intersections 

 between pits being broader, lower, and smoother, particularly 

 near anterior border. The two short submedian longitudinal 

 ridges crossing the anterior depression in S. malaya are here 

 obsolete. 



India, Darjeeling district, Mangpu, Sureil, elevation, 1,500 

 meters (S. W. Kemp). Described from one specimen kindly 

 loaned to me by the director of the Zoological Survey of India. 

 This species may possibly find a close relative in S. greeni Dis- 



