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rostrum reaching fore coxae. Pronotum one-half longer than 

 broad, anterior lobe smooth but with an impressed percurrent 

 median line, posterior lobe somewhat depressed, finely rugulose. 

 Elytra reaching base of last dorsal segment. Abdomen very 

 finely rugulose, shortly pilose. Hind femora not thicker than 

 fore femora, beneath in the middle with two or three small 

 spines; all tibiae very shortly pilose; tarsi as long as femora, 

 first joint incrassate, very shortly pubescent, in the fore and 

 middle legs a little shorter than the tibia, in the hind legs as long 

 as the tibia. 



Length, male, 3.7 to 4.3 millimeters. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios and Mount Maquiling. 



Rather similar in color to P. sesquipedalis Dist., but much 

 smaller and differing by smaller and narrower head, narrower 

 and more elongate eyes, ocelli subcontiguous to eyes, medially 

 sulcated anterior pronotal lobe, finely rugulose (not coarsely 

 punctate) posterior pronotal lobe, less thickened and less spinous 

 hind femora, and less bristly hind tibiae. 



This genus was previously known only from Burma and the 

 Andaman Islands. 



Genus RHABDOMORPH¥S novum 



Body narrow, parallel-sided, about seven times longer than 

 broad, distance from base of pronotum to apex of abdomen four 

 times longer than head and pronotum together. Head about as 

 long as broad, postocular part very short, but the eyes not quite 

 touching anterior margin of thorax, antennae with the first joint 

 short but passing apex of head, fourth joint much the longest, 

 rostrum rather short, first joint not reaching base of head, second 

 equal to first, third slightly shorter, as long as fourth. Prono- 

 tum a little longer than broad, subparallel from base to middle, 

 then narrowing toward apex, basal margin sinuate. Scutellum 

 a little longer than broad, with a median carina not quite reach- 

 ing base. Elytra not nearly reaching apex of abdomen, but 

 with fully developed membrane, clavus and corium impunctate, 

 but the radial vein bordered on each side by a row of punctures 

 placed very close to the vein and therefore difficult to see; apical 

 angle of corium very acute, its apical margin straight, as long 

 as the claval suture, the two interior veins of the membrane 

 united behind the middle, then continued as a single vein and 

 joining the apex of the median vein forming a loop, the two 

 exterior veins simple, but starting from the same point. Fore 

 acetabula removed from base of prosternum, closed behind. 

 Mesosternum with the xyphal area separated from the disk by 



