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little broader than long, with almost straight basal margin, 

 median lobe a little more than twice the length of apical lobe, 

 with a l-shaped central impression and a tripartite impression 

 on each side, in the female one-fifth narrower than the basal 

 lobe. Scutellum convex. Elytra not quite reaching apex of 

 abdomen. Legs short and stout, fore tibiae at apex almost as 

 broad as femora in the middle, hind femora scarcely longer than 

 fore femora. 



Length, female, 5 millimeters. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Bahos and Mount Maquiling. 



Somewhat resembling H. basalis Westw., but smaller and 

 distinct in several details. 



Systelloderes capillicornis sp. nov. 



Depressed, castaneous (including antennse), posterior margin 

 of ventral segments narrowly testaceous ; rostrum and front legs 

 brownish testaceous, middle and hind legs whitish. Head shin- 

 ing, as long as pronotum, with very few short upright hairs, 

 eyes (male) occupying almost the whole height of the head, 

 vertex (male) between the eyes two and a half times broader 

 than an eye, gular interspace between the eyes much narrower 

 than an eye, posterior lobe of head broader than long with 

 slightly rounded sides, antennse about as long as head and pro- 

 notum together, first joint shortly oval, glabrous, reaching apex 

 of head, second joint slightly incrassated from base to apex, as 

 long as the width of vertex with one eye, finely pilose, the last 

 two joints very slender, capillary, set with rather long exserted 

 hairs, the third half as long again as second, fourth subequal 

 to third, rostrum pilose. Pronotum shining, very sparingly and 

 shortly pilose, more distinctly so at the lateral margins, con- 

 siderably broader than long, strongly widening from apex to 

 base where it is four times broader than at apex, lateral max'gins 

 not sinuate between apical and median lobe, but distinctly con- 

 stricted between median and basal lobe, basal margin broadly 

 and rather deeply arcuately sinuate, apical lobe longer in the 

 middle than at the sides owing to the transverse impression 

 terminating it posteriorly being obtusangularly produced back- 

 ward, median lobe minutely sculptured in the center, basal lobe 

 at the middle of its apical margin with a small transverse cal- 

 losity. Scutellum as long as pronotum in the middle, shorter 

 than broad, with some extremely short and subtle hairs, opaque, 

 but with a highly polished and slightly elevated T-shaped figure 

 reaching the apex. Elji;ra reaching apex of abdomen, strongly 

 iridescent, in their apical half considerably broader than pro- 



