RHYNCHOTA PHILIPPINENSIA, PxVRT I. 59 



Family LYG.^ID^E. 



PACHYGRONTHA Germar. 



Silb. Rev. Ent. (1837) 5, 152. 

 Type: P. lineata Germ. 



Pachygrontha nigrolineata sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 3.) 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly, coarsely and darkly punctate ; pronotum with 

 the extreme lateral margins pale ochraceous and levigate preceded bj' a sul)- 

 marginal fascia formed by black punctures on each side; a longitudinal black 

 fascia on each corium commencing near middle of clavus and continued on mem- 

 brane to about one-fourth before apex where it is obliquely deilected to margin 

 by a broken continuation; apical fourth of membrane exhibiting a central black 

 longitudinal line probablj' a reflection from the abdomen beneath it and with 

 two small piceous spots on apical margin, the membrane between the black 

 longitudinal lines distinctly paler in color; head beneath and sterniun bro^vnis)l 

 grej', thickly darkly punctate; abdomen beneath pale ochraceous, with a sublateral 

 fascia on each side and a central fascia on the last two segments piceous brown; 

 stigmatal spots black; legs ochraceoxis, somewhat thickly speckled with piceous, 

 anterior femora, above, hiore prominently speckled with black; antennae with the 

 first and second joints subequal in length, apex of first joint naoderately thickened 

 and piceous, third shorter than second, fourth mutilated in type; head, including 

 eyes, about as broad as anterior margin of pronotum, anteriorly shortly, spinously 

 produced on each side ; pronotum scarcely or but little longer than broad 

 at base, more thickly punctate on lateral areas than on middle area; scutellmn 

 with a central pale levigate line and a small pale spot near each basal angle; 

 coriimi with the extreme lateral margin levigate, except on basal fourth where 

 it is punctate; clavus longitudinally punctate; anterior femora somewhat strongly 

 spined beneath, anterior tibije curved. 



Long. 18 millimeters. 



Hab. Philippine Islands; Manila {Charles S. Banks collector). 



Family TINGIDID.^. 



HORMISDAS gen. nov. 

 Type: H. pictus sp. nov. 



Head with seven porrect spines of which three are apical, the central one 

 considerably the longest, a shorter and more robust spine on each side between 

 eyes and base of antennte and two long spines extending from base of head to 

 about base of antennae; antennsE long, distinctly pilose, first and second joints 

 short, robust, second shorter than first and more globose, third slightly more than 

 twice as long as fourth ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxje ; pronotum longer 

 than broad, continuously tricarinate, the lateral margins ampliate, bi-areolate and 

 longly, porrectly spined at the anterior angles; scutellum concealed; elytra elon- 

 gate, concavely sinuate on costal margin beyond middle, the apex a little widened 

 and rounded, discoidal area small, about as long as pronotiun, subcostal area with 

 a single series of areolets, costal area bi-areolate, the areolets and those on sutural 

 area somewhat large and prominent; mesosternum with two longitudinal central 

 ridges between which the rostrum is enclosed; legs slender. 



