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Female. — In coloration similar to the male. Pregenital ster- 

 nite wider than long, very slightly and obtuse-angularly produced 

 from sides to middle; anal segment about as wide as long, lan- 

 ceolate, acute-angularly emarginate at apex. 



Length, 4 millimeters; tegmen, 8.5. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Bailos (B. R. Bautista) , cotype in College 

 of Agriculture, No. 18326; Manila {H. Loewinsohn) Bureau of 

 Science No. 15802, {Banks) Bureau of Science No. 14242. 



Zoraida hyalina Melichar. 



Zoraida hyalina Melichar, Notes Leyden Mus. (1913), 36, 97. 



One male agrees with Melichar's description of this Javanese 

 species; the costal, subcostal, basal half of radial, and base of 

 median cells slightly yellowish. A white, waxy secretion over 

 scutellum. 



Ventral edge of pygophor angularly produced in middle; lat- 

 eral edges angularly produced; length of anal segment nearly 

 twice the width, parallel-sided, apex conically rounded and turned 

 slightly dorsad, anus in middle with a small projection just in 

 front of it, in lateral view the ventral edge curved dorsad; 

 genital styles reaching to end of anal segment, spatulate, base 

 narrow, apex bluntly pointed, dorsal edge with a small emargi- 

 nation near apex, ventral edge with a small emargination before 

 middle and slightly sinuous basad of emargination. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (Baker), 



Zoraida flaviventris sp. nov. 



Male. — Antennse a little longer than face. Head, antennae, legs, 

 and ventral surface of thorax and abdomen yellow, dorsal surface 

 fuscous brown, scutellum and four spots (sense organs?) on 

 fifth and two on sixth abdominal tergites yellow. Tegmina 

 hyaline, veins brown, costal, subcostal, and radial cells dark 

 fuscous brown. 



Ventral edge of pygophor roundly produced, width nearly twice 

 the length, a depression at each corner and a small longitudinal 

 carina down middle ; anal segment longer than wide, apex broadly 

 rounded, base slightly constricted, anus about middle, a small 

 ridge between anus and base, lateral edges turned ventrad, in 

 lateral view ventral edge deeply convex or even subangular; 

 genital styles reaching to apex of anal segment, subspatulate, 

 apex broadly pointed, a round knob on dorsal edge near base, 

 a quadrate process, which is broader than long, on ventral edge 

 near middle. 



Length, 4 millimeters ; tegmen, 9.7. 



