580 BANKS. 



Coxae nearly one-third length of femora which are strongly incrassate. 



Type: Acanthamdus giganleus Banks, sp. nov. 



This genus is nearest related to Alyattes Stal, but differs in many 

 essential features, as : pronotal foliations, relative lengtli of scutellum 

 and coriiim and in the absence of the curved carina on pronotum. 



59. Acantharadus giganteus sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 8, a.) 



Broadly ovate, brown and brown-ochraceous ; margins of entire body 

 deeply crenulate ; head dark brown, finely ragose-tuberculate, sparsely 

 pilose; apices of juga and of antenniferous processes pale brown. Eos- 

 trum sparsely pilose. Antennaa dark brown, with sparse golden pile; 

 apex of fourth segment pale, densely pilose. Anterior and posterior 

 pronotal lobes brown-ochraceous, sparsely pilose; on anterior area two 

 shallow fovete surrounded by tuberculate annulations, within which a 

 smaller tuberculate ring mediad; posterior margin sinuate before scu- 

 tellum; the latter with elevated tuberculate margins; tlie basal angles 

 pale. Corium with tuberculate veins, the apical cross-vein terminating 

 before apex of clavus. Apex of corium acuminate, pale brown. Mem- 

 brane nearly black, the veins on costal area anastomosing, those on 

 posterior area simple and subparallel, conspicuous. Connexivum darlc 

 brown, except on fourth to sixth segments, the apical angles of which are 

 brown-ochraceous. Connexival annulations semitranslucent, a few on. 

 each segment having dark spots at their centers. Visible selerites of 

 seventh abdominal segment of same shape as antenniferous processes of 

 head. Discs of metasternum and abdomen brown-ochraceous, remainder 

 of ventrum and legs dark brown. All femora and tibias hispid or coarsely 

 pilose. 



Length 15 millimeters; greatest width (connexival) 7.5 millimeters, 

 width of pronotum 6 millimeters. 



Palawan, Iwahig, P. I., (C. M. Weber collector). 



Type 'No. 11699 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. The type lacks the left posterior leg. 



BRACHYRHYNCHUS Laporte. 



Ess. Hem. (1832), 54. 



Type: B.' memhranaceus Fabr. 



60. Beachyehtnchxjs tagalicus Stal. 



Arictiis tagalicus Stai, 0. V. A. F. (1870), 672. 



Bergr., Yerh. Z.-B. Gesellsch. Wien. (1886), 36, 59, 



pi. 2, figs. 5 and 7. 

 BrachjTyhynchus tagalicus Dist., Fauna British Ind., Rhyn. (1904), 2, 

 162. 



This species is Icnown also from Burma,. Java and Nias Island. It 

 is a very distinct form. 



Palawan, Iwahig, Bacuit and Bintuan, P. I., (11660, 11667, 11693, 

 0. M. Weber) . A number of specimens from each place. 



