76 The Philippine Journal of Science im 



In spite of the difference in color of the male and female 

 as here described, I feel sure that they are of the same species, 



Megatropis inteixuptolineata Melichar. 



Megatropis interruptolineata Melichar, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D 

 (1914), 9, 271. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios {Muir) , College of Agriculture 

 No. 18125. 



Genus BANKSIELLA novum 



In profile vertex slightly excavate, ascending, angular at junc- 

 tion v/ith face; face well rounded, forming a semicircle; vertex 

 small, angular, slightly longer than width of base; lateral ca- 

 rinae broad and beset with wax pits; carinse continue onto 

 face where they are contiguous to near apex; antennse very 

 small, second joint little longer than broad, arista at apex; eye 

 small, nearly round, very slight antennal emargination on ven- 

 tral edge; clypeus shorter than face, rounded, carinse absent; 

 pronotum short, hind edge angularly emarginate, in the middle 

 acutely so; shoulder keels fairly well developed; mesonotum a 

 little longer than wide, tricarinate, the lateral angles slightly 

 behind middle, posterior angle acute; hind tibiae with a minute 

 spine at base and a few small spines at apex. Tegmina with 

 basal half of costa sinuous, then angularly emarginate, beyond 

 which it is shallowly and arcuately emarginate, apex rounded, 

 broad; precostal area confined to basal fifth, costal vein curved, 

 subcosta and radius amalgamated to near apex, media parting 

 from radius near base, first sector in apical third, cubitus 

 forking beyond middle, second cubital cell closed ; apex of clavus 

 a little beyond middle of tegmen. 



This strange little insect is very aberrant; by the closing of 

 the second cubital cell and by the median sectors being confined 

 to the apical third it falls into the Nicerta group, I should think 

 somewhere near Rohigus. 



Banksiella pulchra sp. nov. Plate I, figs. 6 and 15. 



Female. — Vertex and basal portion of face whitish, apical por- 

 tion of face fuscous with two light marks passing over it; an- 

 tennae, clypeus, and thorax broMTi, lighter over carinas and in 

 middle of pronotum; femora fuscous; abdomen yellowish, fus- 

 cous at apex. Costal cell hyaline, basal fourth of tegmen light 

 brown, darkest along the apical edge of this area, a triangular 

 yellowish patch across tegmen, with its base on hind margin; 

 the rest of the tegmen light reddish brown, except the apex, 



