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Sipyloidea longithorax Redtenbacher, Fam. Phasm. p. 550 (1908). 

 FNecroscia philippa Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 43 (1877). 

 Philippines (Mus. Paris). 



Sipyloidea philippa (Stal). 



Nccroscia philippa Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 43 (1877). 

 Philippines (Stal). 



Sipyloidea brevipennis Redtenbacher, Fam. Phasm. p. 350 (1908). — Phil- 

 ippines (Coll. Brunner). 



Sipyloidea berenice (Stal). 



Necroscia berenice Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 43 (1877). 

 Sipyloidea berenice Brunner and Redt. Fam. Phasm. p. 551 (1908). 

 Philippines (Stal). 



Sipyloidea calliope (Stal). 



Necroscia calliope Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 43 (1877). 

 Sipyloidea calliope Brunner and Redt. Fam. Phasm. p. 551 (1908). 

 Philippines (Stal), U. S. Nat. Museum). 



Sipyloidea eurycneme (Stal). 



Necroscia eurycneme Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 44 (1877). 

 Sipyloidea eurycneme Brunner and Redt. Fam. Phasm. p. 551 (1908). 

 Philippines (Stal). 



Paranecroscia operculata Redtenbacher, Fam. Phasm. p. 557 (1908). — 

 ?Kina-Bala, N. Borneo (Coll. Brunner) ; also quite common and 

 generally distributed. 



Necroscia maculiceps Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 42 (1877) ; Brunner 

 and Redt. Fam. Phasm. p. 561 (1908).— Philippines (Stal). 



Necroscia philippina Redtenbacher, Fam. Phasm. p. 563 (1908). — Philip- 

 pines (Coll. Brunner). 



Necroscia thisbe Stal, Orth. nova Ins. Philipp. p. 42 (1877) ; Brunner and 

 Redt. Fam. Phasm. p. 563 (1908). — PhiHppines (Stal). 



Order ISOPTERA 



The insects of this order are unusually abundant in various 

 parts of the Philippines, but unfortunately they have not been 

 collected and studied. In 1904 J. Desneux published a paper on 

 the group entitled "The Family Termitidae " (Genera Insec- 

 torum, fascicule 25, pp. 1-52, two plates) which was practically a 

 catalogue of all the species of the world known at that time. 

 Since then much additional has been written on these insects. But, 



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