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has an acute median incision for the reception of the median 

 basal part of the small genital segment, which is twice broader 

 than long. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling and Mount Banahao. 



Allied to S. validus Dist., but smaller, with black head and 

 anterior pronotal lobe, quite differently colored legs, etc. Named 

 for Julian Valdez, Professor Baker's collector. 



Sadoletus bakeri sp. nov. 



Oblong-subovate (female), black, posterior lobe of pronotum, 

 apical third of scutellum, fore acetabula and apical callus of 

 orificia tawny, scutellar keel ochraceous, clavus and a little more 

 than basal half of corium white, membrane hyaline, abdomen 

 castaneous, sixth ventral segment and genital segments fulvous ; 

 antennse and rostrum fuscous; legs castaneous, coxse piceous, 

 all trochanters and basal half of middle and hind femora whitish 

 testaceous, first joint of tarsi (except extreme apex) white; 

 densely clothed with a short golden sericeous pubescence, less 

 thickly so on venter, and with the cicatrical areas and posterior 

 lobe of pronotum, apical half of scutellum, and elytra glabrous. 

 Head as broad as base of anterior pronotal lobe, second joint 

 of antennse twice the length of first, rostrum reaching middle 

 coxae. Pronotum constructed and punctured as in S. valdezi, the 

 pale median line of the posterior lobe slightly elevated, evanes- 

 cent toward the base. Scutellum with fuscous punctation in the 

 apical half. Corium and clavus with fine fuscous punctation, 

 the corial costal margins straight and parallel through some- 

 what less than the basal half, then (at least in the female) 

 slightly ampliately rounded, the uniseriately punctate basal part 

 of the exocorium subequal in length to the biseriately punctate 

 apical part, in which the interspace between the exterior and 

 interior rows of punctures is elevated, with a short additional 

 row of punctures outside the middle part of the inner row, 

 apical margin of corium very conspicuously shorter than claval 

 suture. Pectus sparsely and rather coarsely punctate. Front 

 femora in the apical half with a very small toothlike tubercle. 



Length, female, 4.8 millimeters. 



Female. — Ventral segments constructed as in Sadoletus val- 

 dezi, but apical margin of sixth segment straighter, with an 

 inconspicuous acute incision in the middle, the small genital 

 segment more than twice broader than long. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Banahao. 



A somewhat robust, very distinctive species. 



