36 ^^e Philippine Jownal of Science isis 



Cryptaspidia tagalica St41. 



Add: Habitat — Basilan (Baker). 



Cryptaspidia obtusiceps Stal. 



I am determining a single specimen from Davao, Mindanao 

 (Baker's duplicate No. 6472), as this species, which has not been 

 recognized before. If it is not the identical form, it must be 

 very close to it indeed; and it seems desirable to list it, at least 

 tentatively, under this name. 



It is a fine, large insect, 7 millimeters in length and 3.5 across 

 the humeral angles (Stal's maximum measurements), shining 

 black, coarsely punctate, very sparingly pubescent, the median 

 carina almost obsolete, the posterior process strongly decurved 

 and sharply tricarinate at the tip. The head is nearly flat, a 

 character given by Stal as specific. 



Cryptaspidia nigris sp. nov. Plate I, figs. 17 and 18. 



Uniform shining black, except the apical two-thirds of the teg- 

 mina and the tarsi, which are ferruginous; coarsely punctured, 

 sparingly pubescent; eyes reddish; posterior process strong, 

 heavy, carinate, gradually acute, extending well beyond the in- 

 ternal angle of tegmen and almost to tip of abdomen ; scutellum 

 entirely concealed by pronotum ; clypeus fused with genae. 



Head wider than long, shining black, impunctate, sparingly 

 pubescent with golden hairs; basal (upper) margin of head 

 sinuate; eyes large, projecting, reddish; ocelli distinct, pearly, 

 slightly nearer to the eyes than to each other and situated 

 slightly above a line drawn through centers of eyes ; clypeus not 

 clearly set off by sutures but apparently fused with genae, tip 

 arcuate, not projecting below the inferior margin of face but 

 forming a part of the unbroken semicircle connecting the eyes 

 as seen from a strictly cephalic view. 



Pronotum shining black, coarsely punctured except in front, 

 sparingly pubescent; metopidium sloping, smooth, impunctate, 

 shining; median carina not percurrent; humeral angles prom- 

 inent, rounded, posterior process gradually acute, wide at base, 

 completely concealing scutellum, tip tricarinate, sharp, some- 

 what decurved, extending well beyond internal angle of tegmen 

 and almost as far as tip of abdomen but not reaching tip of 

 tegmina. 



Tegmina smoky hyaline tinged with ferruginous except at 

 base and basal third of costal margin, which are entirely coria- 

 ceous, jet black and punctured. 



