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fuscous with dark veins. The insect sometimes entirely covered 

 with a white, waxy secretion giving it a blue-black appearance. 



Ventral edge of pygophor straight, lateral edges slightly and 

 very obtusely angular ; anal segment long, narrow, apex and base 

 subequal in width, narrowing to middle, a small dorsal projection 

 near base, anus at apex, below which the apical corners are 

 produced into two small spines; genital styles large, broadly 

 lanceolate, apex turned inward and produced into a long spine. 



Female. — Pregenital sternite very short at sides, angularly 

 produced to middle. 



Length, 2.25 millimeters; tegmen, 4. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (Muir) ; Tayabas, Lucena (Banks) , 

 cotype in College of Agriculture, No. 18118. 



Herpis pallidinervis sp. nov. 



Male. — Vertex a little broader than long, a fine carina divides 

 it from face; caringe of mesonotum straight, parallel. Neura- 

 tion of tegmina irregular, three small spurs from subcosta into 

 costal cell and four from radius into radial cell forming three 

 small, incomplete cells within the radial cell. Brown, carinas 

 of head and thorax lighter brown. Tegmina brown with pale 

 veins ; wings fuscous with dark veins. 



Ventral edge of pygophor straight, lateral edges slightly ar- 

 cuate; anal segment subquadrate, length about twice the width 

 of base, apex truncate and narrower than base, anus at apex; 

 genital styles subquadrate, base narrower than apex, apex sub- 

 truncate wdth a deep emargination, a deep keel extends from 

 base to apex down the middle, a small rounded process arises 

 from the inside of the dorsal edge near the middle. 



Length, 2 millimeters ; tegmen, 3.7. 



Female. — Similar to the male. Pregenital sternite short, espe- 

 cially at sides, posterior edge obtuse-angularly produced from 

 sides to middle ; anal segment very small, apex rounded. 



Mindanao, Davao (Baker). 



Genus VEKUNTA Distant 



Vekunta lineata Melichar. 



Vekunta lineata Melichar, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1914), 9, 270 

 This species is known to me only from the original description, 



Vekunta palawanensis sp. nov. 



Female. — Light reddish yellow or brown, head and pronotum 

 lighter than mesonotum, darker mark on pleura, dorsum of ab- 

 domen darker brown, Tegmina hyaline, opaque with waxy 



