RliYNCHOTA PALAWAXICA, PAUT I. 573 



Subf. COLOBATHKISTIN^I;. 



MALCUS Stal. 



Freg. Eiig. Resa, Ins., Hem. (1859), 241. 

 Tj'pe: -T". flavidipes Stal. 



47. Malcus flavidipes Stal, Frcg. Bug. Resa. /«.?., Hem. (18.59), 242, pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Malciis flavidipes Distant, Faviia British I ml., Rhgn. (1904) , 2, S.'?. fig. 22. 



This well-marked little insect, though collected b)' me previoiisl^r in 

 the vicinitj- of ilanila, has never been recorded before from the Philip- 

 pines. It was originally described from Java. 



Palawax, Iwahig, P. I., (10951.11'. ScliuUzc) ; Pizal, Montalban, 

 P. I., (5403 Banln:). Schultze took a single specimen. 



Subf. Hetkbogastkin^e. 



CHAULIOPS Scott. 



Anil. Mag. \at. Hist. (1874), (4) 14, 427. 

 Type: C. faUax Scott. 



48. Chauliops bisontula sp. nov. (Plate I. fig. 4, a.) 



Pale 3'ellowish brown, uniformly and cleeph' punctured, each puncture 

 containing a pale, scale-like, appressed hair. Head vertically deflected, 

 brown, densely pilose, especially internad to each eye, where the scale- 

 like hairs form a pale ochraceous patch. Ocelli dark red-brown, the area 

 surrounding them less pilose ; first ant-ennal segment luteous, second 

 pale fuscous on basal half, paler apically; third -and fourth entirely 

 pale fuscous, the latter with minute whitish pubescence. Eostrum fus- 

 cous, piceous at apex; infraocular spine piceous. Pronotum strongly 

 deflected anterior^, brown, ochraceously irrorated, and with coarse punc- 

 tures evenly placed; a triangular pilose area near anterior margin 

 medially; posterior angles slightly tumescent, subglabrous. Scutellum 

 dark brown with thick pile on lateral margins from base to near apex, 

 which latter is elevated, nearly black and sulcate. Corium concolorous 

 with pronotum ; clavus with a single longitudinal row of piliferous punc- 

 tures. ■ j\Iembrane translucent white; its extreme length equal to that 

 of pronotum and scutellum. Connexivum strongh', lobately reflected; 

 margins of lobes piceous. Ventral surface of thorax and abdomen con- 

 colorous with pronotum, and with regular piliferous punctation in ad- 

 dition to pilose areas irregularly placed. Legs entirely |)ale translucently 

 ochraceous. 



Length 3 millimeters; width 1 millimeter. 



Palawan-, Tara Island, P. I., {C. M. Weher, collector.) 



Type 2>«"o. 11801 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



