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bristles. Mouth parts visible in the form of a dark projecting 

 cone. (From the original description.) 

 Luzon, Batangas (Townsend). 



Genus LLAVEIA Signoret 



Type, Coccus axin Llave. 



Characters similar to those of Drosicha; female antennae 

 11-jointed; male with fleshy processes arranged along the sides 

 of the abdomen. 



Synoptic table of the species. 



a'. Male with base of wing and costal area bright red; abdomen with six 



processes sanguinea. 



a'. Areas of wing not red. 



b^. Abdomen of male with six processes; a large species benguetensis. 



b'. Abdomen with eight processes. : liizonica. 



Llaveia sanguinea Cockerell. 



Llaveia sanguinea C0CKERE5LL, Can. Ent. (1915), 47, 344. 



Male about 5 millimeters long, length of wings, about 7; an- 

 tennae rather thick, middle joints with three whorls of long red- 

 dish hairs; legs red, hairy; eyes dark red, very prominent on 

 stout stalks; anterior part of thorax dull black, forming a lobe 

 extending over the head, posterior to this the thorax is shining 

 black with a broad, transverse reddish ochreous band, abdomen 

 broad, red, with six long fleshy processes; penis long with a 

 large raspberry-pink knob; wings ample, extreme base and cos- 

 tal region bright red. (From the original description.) 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa {Baker). 



Llaveia benguetensis Cockerell. 



Llaveia benguetensis Cockerell, Journ. Econ. Ent. (1916), 9, 235. 



"Male. — Length 4.5 millimeters, exclusive of abdominal proc- 

 esses; wings about 7 millimeters long, black, with usual vena- 

 tion and two hyaline lines ; costal field dark reddish brown ; head 

 and thorax black, the mesothorax shining, region just below 

 wings dark red and dull ; mesosternum enlarged, convex, polished 

 black; eyes very prominent, constricted at base, placed at lower 

 anterior corners of head; antennae black with very long black 

 hairs ; third joint with three nodes ; legs black ; abdomen broad, 

 dark red, with the dorsal region strongly sufl'used with black, 

 apex deeply emarginate; six long fleshy abdominal processes, 

 the first pair shorter than the others, which are subequal, and 

 a little longer than the diameter of the abdomen." 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio {Baker 53J^1). 



