xni.D, 1 Funkhoitser: Philippine MembracicUe 35 



Type (a female) and paratype in Professor Baker's collection; 



allotype (Baker's duplicate No. 4907) in my collection. 



Gargara irrorata sp. nov. 



Small, female golden yellow marked with brown, male brown 

 marked with darker brown; posterior process sinuate; tegmina 

 opaque marked with brown and white ; eyes strongly tinged with 

 red ; legs yellow. 



Female (type) . — Head dark brown, nearly black, convex, 

 deflexed, very finely punctate, sparingly pubescent; eyes prom- 

 inent, yellow with strong tinge of red; ocelli small, pearly, dis- 

 tinct, slightly nearer to the eyes than to each other and situated 

 a little above a line passing through centers of eyes; clypeus 

 strongly deflexed, black, tip extending far below inferior margin 

 of face. 



Pronotum bright yellow with brown markings on metopidium 

 and apex of posterior process, very finely and closely punctate, 

 sparingly pubescent; metopidium sloping, a brown mark on 

 each side of median line and another above each eye; humeral 

 angles prominent, blunt ; median carina strongly percurrent and 

 sharply elevated; posterior process strong, tectiform, decidedly 

 sinuate, tip brown, extending just beyond internal angle of 

 tegmen, 



Tegmina opaque, base brownish yellow and punctate, rest of 

 tegmen marked with alternate broad bands of brown and white, 

 tip broad and very slightly hyaline. 



Undersurface of body deep brown, slightly pubescent; legs 

 yellow. 



Length to tips of tegmina, 3.2 millimeters; width between 

 humeral angles, 1.7. 



Male. — Smaller, darker, more pubescent, general color cin- 

 namon with markings of chocolate; arrangement of markings 

 about the same as in female; tegmina black and punctate at 

 base, markings of brown and white not so uniformly in bands 

 as in female. 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio (Baker), 1 female and 1 male. 



Type (a female) in Professor Baker's collection; allotype in 

 my collection. 



Genus CRYPTASPIDIA Stal 



This genus can be best distinguished from Gargara by the fact 

 that in Crytaspidia the scutellum is always entirely concealed, 

 while in Gargara it is always plainly visible at the basal sides 

 of the posterior process. 



