RHYNCHOTA PALAWANICA, PART I. 587 



Tliis is the first record of this species as from the Philippines, though 

 it has been recorded from Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and two closely 

 related species are known from these Islands, viz., E. fliilipylnemk 

 Westw., and E. niiidus Stal. 



The specimens from Palawan are easily recognizable and the pale 

 pronotum and spots on the corium, together with sanguineous bases of 

 the femora, make their identity certain. 



Palawan, Iwahig, P. I., (10859 W. SchuHze, 11906 C. M. Weljer), 3 

 specimens. 



I have recently received five specimens of E. philippineiisis Westw., 

 from Limay, Bataan, collected by E. J. Alvarez of the Bureau of 

 Forestry. This species is much larger than hipim.ctatus. 



Subf. HARPACTOKINiE. 



Div. HAEPACTORAEIA. 



HARPACTOR Laporte. 



Ess. H4m. (1832), S. 

 Type: E. iracundus Poda. 



76. HaRPACTOB MAHQINELLtlS Fabr. 



Reduvius marginellus Fabr., Syst. Bhyng. (1803), 271. 



Stal, Hem. Fabr. (1868), T, 111. 



Lamphirus id,, Enum. Hem. (1874), 4, 39. 



var. vieimis Stal, 0. V. A. F. (1859), 202. 



Hai-pactor Dist., Fatina British hid., h'hyn. (1904), 2, 334. 



The specimen before me is Distant's var. a, having the red-ochraceoiis 

 abdominal margins, spotted with black. The species is known from 

 Burma, Sikhim, Aden, Borneo, Java, Celebes and China. It has not 

 been reported from the Philippines previously. 



Palawan, Iwahig, P. I., (11701 C. M. Weber). A single specimen. 



SPHEDANOLESTES Stal. 



0. V. A. F. (1866), 284, 288. 

 Type: S. impressicollis Stal. 



77. Sphedanolestes xanthopygus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 6,a. ) 



Brown, except legs and ventral surface of abdomen which are piceous ; 

 glabrous, sparingly pilose. Head, antenna and rostrum concolorous, 

 postocular region equal to distance from apex of head to posterior margins 

 of eyes and having, posterior to ocelli, four erect bristles, the tips of 

 which curve forward; ocelli lemon-yellow, on slight tubercles; posterior 

 lobe of pronotum obsoletely granular, tuberculate. Scutellum with Y- 

 shaped pale carina on apical half; corium and membrane fuliginous, 

 apical angle of former piceous; dorsum of abdomen sordid yellow, irro- 

 rated with piceous, except last segment which is piceous. Pygidium 

 orange-yellow in both sexes. 



