PHILIPPINE AND ASIATIC PSYLLIDyE 



By D. L. Crawford 

 {Pomona College, Claremont, California) 



ONE PLATE 



Since my last paper on Psyllidse of the Orient ^ was written, 

 several small collections have been received from Professor C. 

 F, Baker, that most indefatigable collector. Another collection 

 of considerable interest, from the Pusa Research Institute, in- 

 cludes specimens from various parts of India and Ceylon, ac- 

 cumulated by Mr. T. B. Fletcher. In the former collection are 

 two new genera and several very interesting new species. In 

 the latter collection there is only one new species, but the collec- 

 tion is a valuable one in that new distribution records are estab- 

 lished for known species. 



Pauropsylla brevicephala sp. no v. Plate I, fig. 11. 



Length of body, l.S millimeters ; length of forewing, 2.0 ; width, 

 0.9; width of head, 0.65. General color brown with orange or 

 yellow markings on dorsum and pleurum of thorax; antennae 

 mostly light brown, apex black; wings hyaline with five black 

 marginal spots, one at end of each of four furcal veins and of 

 radius. Body medium to small, robust. Dorsum of head and 

 thorax shagreened. 



Head not as broad as thorax, very short, much deflexed so 

 that it appears to be situated almost beneath the prothorax. 

 Vertex much broader than long, uniformly rounded forward and 

 downward, front ocellus beneath. Genas scarcely swollen; 

 labrum not very large. Antennae very short, not as long as width 

 of vertex between eyes. 



Thorax strongly arched, broad. Legs short. Wings a little 

 more than twice as long as broad, hyaline and very slightly 

 fumate, rounded at apex, venation somewhat resembling that of 

 Paurocephala psylloptera. 



Abdomen short. Female genital segment small, short; dorsal 

 valve with a rounded hirsute hump midway dorsad and the apex 

 acute and curved upward ; ventral valve very small and its apex 

 turned downward. 



Mindanao, Davao (Baker), 2 females. 



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