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at hind border ; mesophragma black, gray-dusted. Halteres with 

 blackish stalk and yellowish knob. 



Abdomen entirely shining ceruleous, with short white pubes- 

 cence; the hind lateral comers of segments two to five bear 

 short, spotlike stripes of whitish tomentum; all the segments 

 have on the sides rather long white hairs and two or three 

 strong black middle bristles. Venter wholly shining ceruleous, 

 whitish-dusted and white-haired at base, black-haired at end. 

 Ovipositor with the first segment dark ceruleous and with long 

 black bristly hairs at end, the second segment black with pale 

 yellowish hairs. Legs shining, dark ceruleous, with long white 

 hairs and with black bristles ; coxae black, densely gray-dusted ; 

 hind femora thickened, with a single, very strong black bristle 

 beyond middle on outer side ; middle femora with a long bristle 

 before end on inner side; claws black, pulvilli dark yellowish. 



Wings hyaline from base to middle, fuscous on the apical 

 half, the inner border of colored area running from the fore 

 margin of wing in front of the anterior cross vein to the hind 

 margin at end of fourth posterior cell; the centers of the cells 

 around the apex and the hind margin lighter. Discoidal cell 

 shorter and narrower than the second posterior cell, the anterior 

 cross vein situated on its first third; first posterior cell very 

 long and narrow and rather narrowed at end; cross vein at 

 end of the fourth posterior cell short and parallel with the pos- 

 terior cross vein ; stalk of the anal cell shorter than that of the 

 fourth posterior cell. Veins black. 



Luzon, Tayabas, Mount Banahao (Baker) . 



145. Promachus forcipatus Schin. 1868. 



Los Baiios and Mount Maquiling, Laguna, and Baguio, Ben- 

 guet. A common endemic species, very characteristic by the ex- 

 traordinary shape of the male genitalia. 



146. Promachus bifasciatus Macq. 1838. 



One female specimen from Cagayan, Mindanao. Known from 

 Celebes and Java and new for the Philippines, but it is probably 

 the species of which Osten Sacken says : "Resembles bifasciatus 

 Macq., but is certainly different." The present specimen belongs 

 surely to this species so far as can be judged from females only. 



147. Systropus ® valdezi sp. nov. 



One female specimen from Baguio, Benguet. Named in honor 

 of Julian Valdez y Hernandez, Professor Baker's Cuban collector, 



^ This generic name was misprinted in the first century, This Joui'nal, 

 Sec. D (1913), 8, 313. 



