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concoloious with head and similarly margined; propleura black, as is also a 

 broad band on anterior and mid coxk; scutellum concolorous with head but nol, 

 red-margined; tegmina convex, costal margin decidedly convex; the entire disc 

 to claval and sutural margins, but excepting the costal and apical marginal areas 

 which are ochraceous, dark chestnut brown with two transverse curved fascisc, 

 one anteriorly arched, across the middle of the tegmen, the other parenthesis- 

 shaped on the apical third; these fasciae do not attain the margins of the brown 

 area on either side. The extreme external margin of the tegmen is slightly retlexed 

 and is dark brown. Wings minute, translucent, brown apieally, with yellow veins, 

 pale basally. 



Legs daik ochraceous; anterior and mid tibiae with two brown annulations; 

 those of the latter, which is externally sulcate, are not complete; apical spines 

 to posterior tibiae black, as is the single spine on apical third. 



Basal ventral, abdominal segments dark brown, their margins ochraceous, apical 

 segments dark ochraceous. Genitalia ochraceous; black apieally. 



Length, including tegmina, 3.7 millimeters, width 2.75 millimeters. 



Palawan, Tara Island, P. I. (C. M. Weier collector). 



Type 2 No. 11720 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



Three other specimens, two from the same locality and one from Bin- 

 tuan, P. I. (11697 C. M. Weber), labeled parat}'pes, are somewhat 

 paler in color with the ochraceous color of the tegmina more diffuse. 

 The specimen ISTo. 11697 has the facial disc brown, its margins ochracous 

 and mid coxae somewhat broader. 



20. Hemisphaerius transfasciatus sp. nov. (Plate III, fig. 4.) 



Obovoidal, pale brown, with three transverse yellow lines on tegmina. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum pale ochraceous, all margined with f errugineous ; 

 face slightly darker on disc; clypeus and rostrum black, glabrous; former pale 

 yellow basally. Tegmina pale brown with a transverse basal interrupted yellow 

 fascia, another, sinuate, on basal third from near internal suture externad for 

 two-thirds width of tegmen, and a third, creseentio, across apical third not 

 attaining either margin; wings fuliginous apieally, with white veins, yellow 

 basally. 



Abdominal segments dorsally, ochi-aceous, narrowly red-margined, ventrally 

 obsolescently brown, widely yellow-margined; genitalia brown. 



Legs ochraceous, apices of anterior and mid femora and two annulations on 

 anterior and mid tibiae dark brown, posterior tibiae dark ochraceous; tibial spine 

 on apical third not conspicuous, black, as are the apical and subapical. 



Length 3.75 millimeters, width 2.75 millimeters. 



Palawan, Iwahig, P. I. (T7. SchuUze collector). 



Type S Wo. 11961 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. Described from a single specimen. 



Wliile this species might be taken for the $ of H. parenthesis at 

 first siglit, the pleural and co.\al markings together -ndth the entirely 



