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VELIAD^ 

 Microvelia atrolineata sp. nov. 



Oblong, somewhat narrowed behind, black, beneath with a 

 slight bluish gray pruinescence, head above with a whitish lateral 

 line touching inner margin of eyes and a pale grayish median 

 vitta, pronotum with whitish yellow apical margin and a slightly 

 raised, longitudinal, dull velvet-black median line; elytra with 

 the claval area, a short basal spot, an antemedian, elongate, 

 interiorly rounded, exteriorly straight or subsinuate spot, two 

 submedian spots abreast (the inner one much larger, more 

 oblong, and including a blackish median dash) , and an oblong 

 more or less parallel apical spot white; underside of head, 

 front acetabula (sometimes also apex of the other aceta- 

 bula), lateral margins of abdomen, apical margin of last ventral 

 segment, and genital segment brownish testaceous ; antennae fus- 

 cous, first joint testaceous toward the base; rostrum testaceous, 

 last joint pitchy black; legs whitish testaceous, femora in their 

 apical part, tibiae, and tarsi usually somewhat infuscated. Head 

 without an impressed median line, antennae a little shorter than 

 head and pronotum together, subglabrous, first joint a little 

 longer than eye, passing apex of head by half its length, second 

 much shorter than first, third equal in length to first, fourth 

 as long as the two preceding joints together. Pronotum con- 

 siderably broader than long, antehumeral part shorter than the 

 posthumeral process, which is not very broadly rounded at apex, 

 humeral angles distinctly prominent. El>i;ra reaching apex of 

 abdomen, the veins well pronounced. Pleura with some short 

 recumbent silvery hairs. Abdomen not broader than the closed 

 elytra, connexivum very narrow, strongly reflexed. Legs sub- 

 glabrous; fore tibiae much shorter than femora, fore tarsi a 

 little over half the length of tibiae ; hind femora not quite reach- 

 ing apex of abdomen. 



Length, male and female, 1.7 millimeters. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos and Mount Maquiling. 



Allied to M. singalensis Kirk., but with nonsulcate head and 

 differently constructed antennae. 



GERRID^ 



HALOBATIN.^ 



Ehagadotarsus kraepelini Bredd. 



Rliagadotarsus kraepelini Breddin, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamb. (1905), 

 22, 137. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos. 



A rare, but widely distributed insect, new to the Philippine 



