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Scutellum about as long as median length of head and pronotum 

 together, the transverse impression placed in the middle. Elytra 

 much longer than abdomen, impunctate, clavus and corium with 

 scattered, extremely short, golden hairs easily rubbed off, embo- 

 lium in the male slightly passing apex of abdomen, in the female 

 reaching the apex of the protruding ovipositor. Sixth female 

 ventral segment as long as the three preceding segments to- 

 gether, broadly rounded at apex, covering the genital segment 

 and the basal half of the ovipositor. Hind tibia armed with 

 scattered, short, dark, bristlelike spines ; second and third tarsal 

 joints of equal length. 



Length, male and female, 2.4 millimeters; including elytra, 

 male, 3.4, female, 3. 



Vanety. — The white embolium with black base, but without 

 the postmedian black spot, the adjacent area of the exocorium 

 black with an oblong basal spot and an oval subapical spot white, 

 mesocorium with only two or three postmedian white spots. • 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios. 



A true Acanthia, the first one from the Philippines. 



Breddin '^ has redescribed the Indian Salda dixoni Dist. as 

 belonging to Chartoscirta Stal, but this is certainly a mistake. 

 There is nothing either in Distant's description and figure or in 

 Breddin's redescription indicative of a ChaHoscirta, and it is 

 apparently a true Acanthia. 



Saldoida bakeri Poppius. 



Saldoida bakeH POPPIUS, Wien. Ent. Zeit. (1914), 33, 52. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling. 



The specimen from the above locality has the scutellum quite 

 black and is, like the single type from Los Banos, a macropterous 

 female. The last ventral segment in this sex is roundedly pro- 

 duced over the genital segment and the basal half of the oviposi- 

 tor and is broadly white at apex. The claval commissure (in the 

 macropterous form) is as long as the scutellum. This species 

 differs from S. armata Horv., apart from the distinctive charac- 

 ters pointed out by Poppius, by the much more convex scutellum. 

 The geographical distribution of this curious genus — Florida, 

 the Philippines, and Formosa — is very remarkable, but it is 

 probably more widely dispersed in both the Neotropical and 

 the Indo-Malayan Region. Not only are these insects great 

 rarities, but they are difficult to catch on account of their rapid 

 movements. 



^' Arch. f. Naturgesch. (1912), 6, 86. 



