60 DISTANT. 



This genus has a superficial resemblance to Hadus Dist., from South 

 Africa, but its real aflSnity is with the Ceylonese genus Celantia Dist. 



Hormisdas pictus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 1, a, b.) 



Head, antennas and pronotum pale fuscous bro'svn, the latter with the ampllated 

 lateral margins hyaline, with the edges of the areolets pale brownish; elytra 

 with the discoidal and sutural areas pale fuscous, the disks of the first and the 

 margins of the latter piceous, the narrow subcostal area greyish brown and the 

 costal area hyaline with the edges of the areolets pale bro'svnish; body beneath 

 piceous brown; legs pale greyish; structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 3.5 millimeters. 



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



Family HEBRID^. 



MERBAGATA Buchanan White. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877) (4) 20, 113. 

 Type: M. heiroides White. 



Merragata cruciata sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 7.) 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black, somewhat palely, finely pilose; anterior 

 margin of pronotum piceous brown; corium brownish oehraceous, the apical 

 margin paler; membrane piceous, almost completely crossed each way by a large 

 cruciform pale oehraceous fascia; body beneath black, legs, antennte and rostrum 

 oehraceous; antenns five-jointed, first joint a little longer than second, third 

 a little longer than either fourth or fifth, the latter (excluding base) a little 

 darker in hue; pronotum with the posterior angles a little tubereulately prom- 

 inent; scutellum with the apex broadly, angularly incised. 



Long 2.33 millimeters. 



Hab. Philippine Islands; Bizal, Montalban Gorge {Charles S. Banhs 

 collector) . 



Family REDUVIIDJ^:. 



ACANTHASPIS Amyot et Serville. 



H6m. (1843) 336. 



Type: A. flavovaria Hahn. 



ACANTHASPIS DISTANTI^ Banks. (Plate I, fig. 12.) 



Acanthaspis distanti Banks, This Journal, Sec. A (1909), 4, 584. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, Bohol {A. Celestino collector). 

 Sibm^an Island {R. 0. McGregor collector). 



^ At the time of the receipt of this MS. from Mr. Distant, a paper of my own 

 containing this species under a different name was in press, and so could not be 

 changed. I was, however, able to have the name distanti substituted before the 

 publication of my paper. (C. S. Banks.) 



