374 The Philippine Journal of Science i9i6 



Tropidocephala philippina Melichar. 



Tropidocephala philippina Melichak, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1914), 

 9, 273. 



The male genitalia of this species agree with those figured of 

 T. exima (Kirkaldy), which is considered by Matsumura as 

 a synonym of T. brunnipennis Signoret,'^ which according to 

 present identifications has a wide distribution over Africa, 

 Australia, the Malay Archipelago, eastern Asia, Formosa, and 

 Japan. 



Luzon, Los Baiios, Mount Maquiling, Mount Banahao, and 

 Baguio. Mindanao, Iligan, Davao, and Dapitan. Palawan, 

 Puerto Princesa {Baker) . 



Tropidocephala saccharivorella Matsumura. 



Tropidocephala saccharivorella MATSUMURA, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 

 (1907), 65. 



The male genitalia of this species are very similar to those 

 of T. dryas (Kirkaldy),® but the base of the genital styles are 

 broader, and there is a curved spine at the base which is absent 

 in T. dryas; the pygophor is more rounded and is without the 

 small spines on the lateral margins. 



Mindanao, Iligan (Baker). Formerly known from Formosa 

 and southern China. 



Tropidocephala nig^ocacuminis sp. nov. 



Male. — Vertex more than twice the length of pronotum (2.3 

 to 1). Light green, yellow, or light brown; two black lines 

 on vertex, one on each side of median carina, from apex to 

 middle, a black spot covering apex of face and base of clypeus 

 partly divided by the lighter median carina, gense below anten- 

 nae black, apex of first joint of antenna and a line on second joint 

 black, coxae and pleura black ; abdomen dark with lighter pleura. 

 Tegmina hyaline with minute white granules on veins, apical 

 cells black with a ligTiter spot in apex of each cell. 



Pygophor with a large spine on medioventral edge, lateral 

 edges acutely angular ; styles slightly flattened, rounded at base, 

 slightly constricted near base, apex pointed and slightly twisted ; 

 a large, curved black spine with a granulated surface arises 

 from the inner edge of the round basal portion of each style. 



Length, 2.5 millimeters; tegmen, 3. 



'Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. Assoc. (1907), No. 3, Plate 17, figs. 

 15-16. 



• Ibid., Plate 17, figs. 4 and 5. 



