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Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (Muir, Baker) , on sugar cane and 

 grasses. 



Stenocranus pacificus Kirk. 



Stenocranus pacificus Kirkaldy, Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. 

 Assoc. (1907), No. 3, 139. 



Previously recorded from Fiji on sugar cane and grasses. 

 The anal spines are blunter than in the type. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (Baker, Muir) , on grasses. 



Stenocranus pseudopacificus sp. nov. 



Male. — Apex of vertex slightly broader, lateral carinas on 

 pronotum outwardly curved posteriorly, but reaching hind mar- 

 gin; otherwise similar in build and coloration to S. pacificus, 

 except in the genitalia. 



Pygophor longer than broad, medioventral edge slightly emar- 

 ginate; lateral edges cut off square at middle, the dorsal half 

 cut back to base of anal segment, at the angle on each side a pair 

 of short, flat spines with wide bases; anal segment large, the 

 ventrolateral corners being produced into large spines, the left 

 one flattish, curved, with rounded apex, the right one flattish, 

 curved, then bent back to ventral surface of anal segment in 

 the form of a wide thin plate; genital styles wide and flattened 

 at base, thinning off to a pointed apex which is curved out- 

 ward, from the wide base a wide, curved spine arises, reaching 

 about one third from base in front. The genitalia are very 

 distinct. 



Female. — Unknown. 



Length, 2.2 millimeters ; tegmen, 3.4. 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio (Baker). 



Genus SARDIA Melichar 



Sardia Melichar, Horn. Ceylon (1903), 96. 



Hadeodelphax Kirkaldy, Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. Assoc. 

 (1907), No. 1, 410. 



Sardia pluto (Kirkaldy) . 



Hadeodelphax pluto Kirkaldy, Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. Assoc. 

 (1907), No. 1, 410. 



Mindanao, Davao and Butuan (Baker) . 

 Previously known from Queensland and Fiji. It has been 

 suggested that this species is a synonym of 5. rostrata Melichar 



