﻿THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 and Anthropology 



Vol. IX SEPTEMBER, 1914 No. 5 



STUDIES IN PHILIPPINE JASSOIDEA: I, SOME REMARKABLE 



TETTIGONIELLIDyE 



By C. F. Baker 



{From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines. 



Los Banos, P. I.) 



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It did not take long for Julian Valdez, after coming to these 

 Islands two years ago, to bring together specimens of all of the 

 Tettigoniellidae previously recorded from the Islands, and that 

 from a very circumscribed region near Los Banos, Laguna Prov- 

 ince, Luzon. At the same time he discovered many more not 

 yet in the Philippine list. Among the latter I find some very 

 remarkable insects — a few belonging to genera or species de- 

 scribed by Distant. 1 



One group of species in this new material represents a generic 

 type apparently undescribed by Distant, Kirkaldy, Melichar, or 

 Matsumura, and this group adds to the Philippine fauna not only 

 a new genus, but a subfamily not previously known to occur so 

 far east. The species of this genus are found, so far as known 

 to me, only in the forests on the neighboring mountain masses 

 of Maquiling and Banahao, and for this reason I am giving them 

 the generic name Makilingia. 



Genus MAKILINGIA novum 



Small tettigoniellids, colored principally black and red, rarely 

 whitish, with head much narrower than pronotum, anterior mar- 

 gin very shortly sublaminate and strongly rounded in front 

 between the eyes. Face rather long and narrow. Basal clypeal 

 suture usually entirely obsolete. Lorse small and narrow. Lat- 



1 Fauna Brit. India-Rhynch»ta. 

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