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Length, 3.2 millimeters; tegmen, 3.6, 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains (Baker). 



In the Baker collection there are three females from Butuan, 

 Mindanao, and one from Puerto Princesa, Palawan, which I 

 place with this species. 



DELPHACIN.^^ 



TROPIDOCEPHALINI 



Genus MALAXA Melichar 

 Malaxa Melichae, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1914), 9, 275. 



In this genus the tibial spur is cultrate, with the inner sur- 

 face concave and with a single apical tooth, none on hind margin. 

 It comes near Sogatopsis Muir in the Tropidocephalini. 



Malaxa acutipennis Melichar, 



Malaxa acutipennis Melichar, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1914), 9, 275. 



One male specimen from Mount Maquiling differs from the 

 description of the type (female) in the following points: Meso- 

 notum, first and second coxae, all femora, and abdomen except 

 pygophor dark brown, Tegmina with three dark bands, the 

 two across middle uniting on posterior half, the third near base. 



Pygophor laterally compressed, edges entire, anal segment very 

 short, projecting but slightly beyond edges of pygophor; styles 

 reaching to lower edge of anal segment, acutely conical, curved 

 inward. 



Genus CONOCRiERA novum 



Head a little narrower than thorax ; vertex triangular, length 

 slightly more than width of base, sides carinate and with a 

 single median longitudinal carina; in profile vertex ascending, 

 making an acute angle with face ; length of face four times the 

 breadth or more, base turbinate, sides subparallel, carinse on 

 sides and a single median carina; clypeus tricarinate, in lateral 

 view slightly curved, antennae reaching to base of clypeus, terete, 

 joints subequal; pronotum about as long as vertex, hind margin 

 very shallowly and evenly emarginate, tricarinate, lateral carinas 

 reaching hind margin ; mesonotum broader than long, tricarinate, 

 lateral carinse faint. Spur on hind tibiae cultrate, slightly convex 

 on inner surface, with a small apical tooth, but no teeth on hind 

 edge, Tegmina laterally compressed, hind margin roundly pro- 

 duced beyond clavus, apex acute; from apex the apical margin 

 forming a continuous curve with costal margin, the latter ending 



