xiii, D, 3 Bergroth: Philippine Heteroptera, I 121 



infuscated. Antennae as long as head and pronotum together, 

 the first two joints subglabrous, together shorter than head, 

 first passing apex of head by half its length, second a little shorter 

 than first, the last three joints very slender, filiform, finely and 

 sparingly pilose, third joint somewhat longer than first, fourth 

 slightly shorter than second, fifth subequal to third. Pronotum 

 laterally deeply sinuate, humeri distinctly prominent, subangular. 

 Scutellum triangular, neither truncate nor notched at apex. 



Length, male, 1.5 to 1.6 millimeters; female, 1.6. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos. 



Remarkable by its small size and pale coloration. 



Distant has described and figured a Philippine species under 

 the name Merragata cruciata, but as he describes the antennae 

 as five-jointed and also describes the length of each of these 

 five joints, it is clear that this species belongs to Hebrus, not to 

 Merragata B. White, which has four-jointed antennae. 



There can be no doubt that Hebrus Curt, and Naeogeiis Lap. 

 are identical, and the latter name has been considered to have 

 one year's priority. Agassiz, however, has stated that Laporte's 

 work, although bearing the date 1832, was not published until 

 1833. There is, therefore, no reason to prefer the name 

 Naeogeus. 



MESOVELIAD^ '' 



Mesovelia vittigera Horv. 



Mesovelia vittigera Horvath, Rev. d'Ent. (1895), 14, 160; Ann. Mus. 

 Nat. Hung. (1915), 13, 550. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling. 



A common species, distributed from Egypt and Syria through 

 the Ethiopian and Indo-Malayan Regions to New Guinea, but 

 not previously recorded from the Philippines. As shown by 

 Horvath in his monograph of this family, M. orientalis Kirk., 

 mulsanti Dist. (nee B. White) , and proxima Schout. are 

 synonyms of it. 



" Berg and other zoologists have correctly stated that family names 

 derived from generic names ending in -ia, must, according to the rules of the 

 Latin language, have the ending -iadae (not -iidae) , and the correct ending 

 has been accepted by Meyrick, Reuter, and several other entomologists. 

 There are no exceptions to this linguistic rule; Horvath has recently [Ann. 

 Mus. Hung. (1915), 539] referred to the ancient name Hesperides as a 

 proof to the contrary, but the ending -ides is not the same as -idae, and the 

 cited name does not signify "les filles de Hesperia," as Horvath says, but 

 "the daughters of the West," or of the Night, being derived from the word 

 Hesperos. 



