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to Cymoninus Bredd., a genus quite distinct from Minus. 

 Distant and I have both been misled by Stal's inaccurate figure 

 of the head of Minus. In this figure the eyes are represented 

 as sessile, whereas they really are, as Stal correctly says in the 

 description, "valde prosilientes, stylati." Yet the ocular 

 peduncle is much less distinct if the insect be looked at straight 

 from above, because the peduncle is directed somewhat upward ; 

 if the head be viewed obliquely from above, the peduncle is very 

 conspicuous. These two genera, in both of which the head is 

 somewhat expanded laterally, are readily distinguished by the 

 following characters : 



Minv^: Head at least as broad as base of pronotum; eyes^ 

 small, pedunculate, placed very obliquely, strongly converging 

 forward, ocular peduncle directed obliquely outward, forward, 

 and upward ; ocelli much more distant from eyes than from each 

 other; rostrum extended to intermediate coxae, first joint reach- 

 ing middle of prosternum. 



Cymo7iinus: Head narrower than base of pronotum; eyes 

 rather large, sessile, placed longitudinally, scarcely converging 

 forward; ocelli scarcely or slightly more distant from eyes 

 than from each other; rostrum extended to middle of mesoster- 

 num, first joint reaching base of head. 



The genus Cymoninus is much more allied to Meoninus Dist. 

 than to Minus. 



Cymoninus philippinus sp. nov. 



Testaceous-brown, above sparingly, erectly pilose; head be- 

 neath and along the margins above, a streak on vertex between 

 ocelli, three posteriorly more or less abbreviated vittse to pro- 

 notum, a median vitta to scutellum, and sometimes propleura, 

 pale cinereous or, rather, covered with a bloom of that color 

 that in some specimens is more or less rubbed off, elytra 

 hyaline, corium with pale testaceous veins, its extreme apical 

 angle brown, claval commissure whitish ochraceous, membrane 

 with a brown apical vitta, abdomen above with a median fuscous 

 vitta, beneath" pale testaceous with a sublateral fuscous vitta; 

 antenna, rostrum (except the piceous apical joint), and legs 

 testaceous. Head with the postocular part shorter than the 

 eyes, first antennal joint also shorter than eyes, third joint 

 distinctly shorter than second and fourth, which are almost 

 equal in length, last three rostral joints of subequal length, each 

 shorter than first. Pronotum, scutellum, and pleura finely and 

 thickly punctulate, the lateral margins of the somewhat trans- 

 verse pronotum a little roundedly prominent between middle 



