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metasternal angles, basal half of corial epipleura, lateral margins 

 of fourth ventral segment and a diffuse median spot to female 

 venter pale testaceous ; antennse testaceous, first and third joints 

 at apex and second joint just before apex fuscescent, fourth joint 

 fuscous-black, apex of second joint and a subbasal annulation of 

 variable breadth to fourth joint white; rostrum piceous, second 

 joint pale testaceous; legs testaceous, coxae black, front femora 

 more or less infuscate, basal half of middle femora and less than 

 basal half of hind femora whitish testaceous, apical half of 

 middle femora and more than apical half of hind femora fuscous 

 or blackish, first joint of tarsi very pale testaceous, their last 

 two joints and sometimes apex of first joint and of tibiae in- 

 fuscate ; pronotum and scutellum rather thickly punctate, corium 

 with the usual rows of fine punctures along the veins and apical 

 margin, otherwise impunctate, except the posteriorly widened 

 exocorium, which is irregularly somewhat thickly punctate in 

 front of the white anteapical costal spot; head, pronotum, and 

 scutellum erectly pilose, the hairs easily coming off. 



Length, male, 6.2 to 6.8 millimeters; female, 7 to 8, 



Variety. — Antennse and tibiae (at least the hind pair) black, 

 basal half of first antennal joint sometimes testaceous, the white 

 markings of the second and fourth joints as in the type, base of 

 tibiae usually pale testaceous. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos, Mount Maquiling, and Mount 

 Banahao; Tayabas, Malinao. Mindanao, Davao. 



Apparently a common insect in the Philippines. 



Bedunia praecipua sp. nov. 



Black; apical margin of pronotum, lateral and basal borders 

 of posterior pronotal lobe, the curved transverse callosity of the 

 scutellum, clavus, corium, and a transverse apical spot to mem- 

 brane pale ochraceous ; a posteriorly widened, percurrent, claval 

 vitta, the claval suture and a narrow almost percurrent vitta to 

 corium, near the suture; two anteriorly united streaks in basal 

 half of corium, a suboval patch at its inner apical angle, a costal 

 vitta opposite it, and a suboval spot near the outer apical angle 

 black; first antennal joint brown, second testaceous with brown- 

 ish apex, third (except the testaceous base) and fourth (except 

 a subbasal white ring) black; rostrum and legs pale testaceous, 

 coxae, fore femora, apical fourth of middle femora, apical third 

 of hind femora, and apex of all tibiae fuscous. Head as long as 

 pronotum, clypeus slightly prominent before base of rostrum, 

 blunt at apex, first joint of antennse a little shorter than head, 

 rostrum reaching somewhat beyond base of third ventral seg- 



