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136. Xenomyza vitripennis 0. S. 1882. 



Numerous specimens of both sexes from Baguio, Benguet, 

 and from Mount Maquiling, Laguna. The species seems to be 

 very variable in the color of the legs, which varies from entirely 

 black to entirely red or yellowish to variations of these colors. 

 It was recently recorded also from Formosa, and the specimens 

 from there were also very variable. 



As the type of the genus Damalis was established by Westwood 

 to be the South American species D. curvipes Fabricius, the 

 name Xenomyza Wiedemann ' must be used for the oriental 

 species. 



137. Epholchiolaphria vulcanus Wied. 1828. 



Butuan, Mindanao. This species is widely spread over the 

 Malay Archipelago and is recorded also from Formosa. It is 

 notable that in these Philippine specimens the bristles of the 

 mystax are all yellow, instead of black, as they were originally 

 described by Wiedemann. I refer them provisionally to the 

 present species because of the great variability attributed to it.^ 



138. Epholchiolaphria leucoprocta Wied. 1828. 



Los Baiios and Mount Maquiling, Luzon. Even in these speci- 

 mens the mystax is yellow instead of black. The present species 

 is considered by Hermann to be only a form of E. vulcanus. 

 But these Philippine specimens are well distinguished by the 

 scutellum and the two basal abdominal segments being clothed 

 with argenteous hairs, which in the female are of a golden color; 

 on the second segment these hairs are present only at sides and 

 at hind border. 



139. Epholchiolaphria partialis nom. nov. (partita Walker, 1860, 



not of same author, 1857, Borneo) . 



Numerous specimens from Mount Maquiling, Laguna, and 

 Malinao, Tayabas, Luzon, and from Cagayan, Mindanao. De- 

 scribed from Celebes, but recorded from the Philippines by 

 Osten Sacken. It is very closely allied to Laphria dimidiata 

 Macquart, No. 13 of the first century, which belongs also to 

 Epholchiolaphria Hermann, and of which there are also numerous 

 other specimens from Mount Maquiling, Laguna, and Malinao, 

 Tayabas, Luzon; and from Dapitan and Butuan, Mindanao. 



' See Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1910), 37, 530. 

 'See Hermann, Entom. Mitteil. (1914), 3, 107. 



