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lateral margins distinctly dilated inwardly at the transverse 

 impression, the basal margin almost straight. Scutellum as 

 long as broad, in the basal half with a triangular elevation, 

 which is depressed or impressed in the middle and emits an 

 often very indistinct keel to the apex. Elytra reaching slightly 

 (female) (in the male, a little farther) beyond apex of abdomen, 

 clavus with three rows of punctures, the commissure less than 

 half the length of scutellum, corium with two rows of punctures 

 near the claval suture and with the radial vein finely punctured, 

 the costal margin straight in its basal fourth, then a little 

 roundedly ampliate, apical margin straight, much shorter than 

 the claval suture. Metasternal orificium a simple curved slit; 

 posterior angle of metapleura acute. Abdomen with the last 

 dorsal segment apically almost straight, or very slightly rounded 

 in the male, sinuate in the female ; posterior, sublateral, glandu- 

 lar spot of the fourth ventral segment placed before the middle 

 not far behind the anterior spot; sixth female ventral segment 

 occupying little more than the apical fourth of the venter, genital 

 segment small in both sexes. Fore coxse armed with a small 

 spine in front near the base; fore femora strongly incrassated, 

 thickest in the basal half, beneath with a groove extending from 

 the apex to not far from the base and terminated on each side 

 by a row of small acute spines, the anterior row with a longer 

 spine nearer to apex than to base ; fore tibise in both sexes rather 

 strongly curved, not denticulate beneath; first joint of hind 

 tarsi about twice as long as the others united. 



Length, exclusive of membrane, male, 4.2 to 5.8 millimeters; 

 female, 4.8 to 5.8. 



Luzon, Benguet, Baguio; Laguna, Los Banos and Mount Ma- 

 quiling. Mindanao, Dapitan. 



In quite fresh specimens the posterior part of the anterior 

 pronotal lobe, the scutellum, the pale basal streak to the clavus, 

 and the pale apical spots to the corium are covered with a bluish 

 gray bloom. This beautifully ornamented insect seems to be 

 common on Mount Maquiling. 



Whether this and the following species really belong to 

 Faelicianus Dist. is impossible to know with certainty from his 

 inadequate description, which fits several other genera; but as 

 the type of Faelicianus in the coloring (except that of the legs) 

 is similar to F. exilicornis, I think I have interpreted the genus 

 correctly. It was hitherto known only from Celebes. Distant 

 places it near Rhyparochromus Curt., but to this genus it has 

 only a superficial resemblance, being in fact closely related to 

 Eremocoris Fieb. and Scolopostethus Fieb. (Manatanus Dist.). 



