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Drosicha palavanica Cockerell. 



Drosicha palavanica Cockerell, Journ. Eeon. Ent. (1916), 9, 235. 



Length of male about 3.5 millimeters, exclusive of abdominal 

 processes; wings nearly 5 millimeters long, black, with the 

 usual venation and two hyaline lines; costal field dark sepia; 

 head and thorax dark red, front and mesothorax black ; antennae 

 black, with long black hairs, third joint with three nodes; legs 

 black; abdomen almost as broad as long, red, strongly suffused 

 with blackish dorsally, with ten red fleshy processes, succes- 

 sively longer caudad, each with long black hairs at end ; the last 

 processes are scarcely over 1 millimeter long. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa. 



Drosicha lichenoides Cockerell. 



Drosicha lichenoides Cockerell, Journ. Econ. Ent. (1913), 6, 142. 



Female about 12 millimeters long, 8.5 broad, 5 high, light 

 reddish, strongly emarginate anteriorly, smooth above with seg- 

 mentation distinct ; legs and antennae dark brown, antennae about 

 as long as anterior femur plus trochanter, 9-jointed, measured in 

 microns: (1) 240, (2) 240, (3) 336, (4) to (8) each 320, (9) 

 590; femora stout, claws strongly curved; lateral margins of 

 insect with very short dense hairs, but with occasional long 

 slender hairs. (From the original description.) 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios (Baker), on Ficits nota. This 

 species also occurs on various other trees. 



Genus MONOPHLEBULUS Cockerell 



Type, Monophlebidus f^iscus Maskell. 



Characters similar to those of Drosicha; female antennae 6- 

 or 7-jointed. 



Monophlebulus townsendi Cockerell. 



Monophlebulus toivnsendi Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. 

 (1905), 10, 127. 



Female gray, fiat, 9 millimeters long, 7.5 broad, about 3 high ; 

 the true color is dark reddish, the gray being due to the mealy 

 secretion. Anal orifice small and round, hairless. Legs and 

 antennae black ; legs very stout ; antennae about as long as femur 

 and trochanter of middle leg, of six joints, three to six about 

 equal, two short and stouter, one broader than long, the joints 

 with coarse pale yellowish bristles. Middle of abdominal region 

 concave beneath, sides densely covered with white cottony tomen- 

 tum; cephalic margin emarginate, with long, coarse black 



