370 The Phili'p'pine Journal of Science isie 



nesia. The furcation of the median facial carina has no generic 

 importance. 



Melanesia brevipennis sp, nov. 



Male. — ^First joint of antennae slightly more than half the 

 length of second ; median frontal carina forking near apex ; head 

 wider than long, vertex slightly longer than wide; tegmina 

 reaching to end of abdomen. 



Light brown ; face darker with some small light dots on gense ; 

 apex of clypeus dark ; pro- and mesonotum dark between carinse ; 

 dark over coxse; abdomen dark with lighter marks along sides. 

 Tegmina light brown, with dark brown or black markings over 

 clavus, along veins, and over cross veins; the whole surface of 

 tegmina granulated ; wings light brown with dark veins. 



Genitalia very similar to those of M. pacifica Kirkaldy; anal 

 segment short but large, covering the greater portion of the 

 opening of pygophor ; a quadrate emargination occurs on ventral 

 edge of pygophor through which the genital styles protrude; 

 styles narrow, straight at base, then curved, the apices bluntly 

 pointed. 



Length, 4.3 millimeters; tegmen, 3.4. 



Female. — Similar to male. 



Mindanao, Butuan (Baker). 



Melanesia luzonensis sp. nov. 



Male. — Both joints of antennae longer than in M. pacifica Kirk- 

 aldy, the second more slender and terete. Vertex, middle of 

 pro- and mesonotum, antennae, and legs light brown; face, cly- 

 peus, and lateral portions of pro- and mesonotum darker brown ; 

 abdomen brown, darker along posterior edges of segments; a 

 faint fuscous ring around second joint of antennae. Tegmina 

 brown, covered all over with whitish granules, which are more 

 numerous before cross veins; darker over median portion of 

 apical cells ; a minute dark mark at apex of each of the first four 

 apical veins; claval margin light, forming, when tegmina is 

 closed, a double diamond pattern down the back. 



Pygophor similar in type to that of M. pacifica Kirkaldy,^ 

 but with a subconical median process on the ventral edge. Penis 

 very long, thin, and complex, the basal portion straight, followed 

 by a more slender, curved portion with two spines at its base, 

 the apical portion forming a spiral and ending in a long, slender 

 point. 



'Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. Assoc. (1907), No. 3, 129, Plate XVII, 

 figs. 13, 14. 



