384 '^he Philippine Journal of Science isie 



Luzon, Tayabas, Mount Banahao (Muir, Baker) , on sugar 

 cane ; Laguna, Los Banos {Baker) . 



Genus MEGAMELUS Fieber 



Megamelus Fieber, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien (1866), 519. 



Megamelus proserpina Kirk. 



Megamelus proserpina Kirkaldy, Ent. Bull. Hawaiian Sug. Plant. 

 Assoc. (1907), No. 3, 147. 



Previously known from Fiji. Now found to occur in the 

 Philippines on Mount Maquiling. 



Genus PEREGRINUS Kirkaldy 

 Peregrinus Kirkaldy, Entomologist (1904), 37, 175. 

 Peregrinus maidis (Ashmead). 



Delphax maidis Ashmead, Psyche (1890), 323. 



Dicranotropis maidis Van Duzee, Bull. Buffalo Nat. Hist. Soc. (1897), 



5, 240. 

 Pundaluoya simplicia Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhyn. (1906), 3, 



468, fig. 255. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios (Baker, Muir, shorn) . 



Throughout the year on maize and grasses. Also known from 

 most parts of the Oriental and Malay Regions; Australia; Fiji; 

 Hawaii; North, Central, and South America; the West Indies; 

 and East Africa. 



This is one of the commonest leaf hoppers at Los Baiios. The 

 eggs are parasitized by a my mar id (Paranagrus sp.) ; otherwise 

 it might be a very serious pest on maize. 



Distant, while considering the Hawaiian form specifically the 

 same as the Indian, questions it being the same as Ashmead's 

 type. I have not had an opportunity to examine the type, but 

 specimens from North America that I have examined are speci- 

 fically the same as the Hawaiian. Crawford, who had specimens 

 from Hawaii, North and South America, and the West Indies, 

 considered them the same species. 



Although I have not seen specimens of Pundaluoya ernesti 

 Kirby, the description and figure given in The Fauna of British 

 India deter me from placing it in the same genus as maidis. The 

 vertex is considerably broader than long, the basal joint of 

 antenna is very short, the lateral edges of the pronotum are 

 described as being marginally strongly carinate — characters that 

 do not fit P. maidis; the tegmen also is distinct. For these 

 reasons I retain the two genera as distinct. 



