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spined as shown in fig. 2, b, but the inner angle, not shown in 

 figure, with a thick-set row of slender spines. 



Apparently rare at Los Banos, Luzon. 



As that species has been described, it is only possible to refer 

 our form provisionally to S. malaya of Stal, at this time. As 

 stated, there is great need for the more thorough study of the 

 type. 



Signoretia tagalica sp. nov. 



Stramineous, vertex with 2 transverse submedian brown dots 

 near anterior border and a brown dot above each ocellus ; tegmina 

 albescent, with the veins in apical area fuscescent. Length, $ 

 6.5, 9 7 mm. 



Length of face less than width across eyes (fig. 3, &). Front 

 more strongly inflated than in S. malaya and smoother, the 

 median carina not extending on to the clypeus. The swollen 

 margin of gense very broad below, reaching the gense. Clypeus 

 much more than half the length of the front. Face otherwise, 

 with temples, similar to that of malaya. The narrow connec- 

 tion of ocellar sulci in malaya is here shallower and less sharply 

 marked ; laterally the ocellar area is twice broadened as in malaya, 

 but the two subareas are separated by a longitudinal ridge, that 

 in which the ocellus is situated being the deeper ; ocellus distant 

 much more than its width from the eye. Length of vertex less 

 than half of its width between the eyes, its plane strongly decli- 

 vous to the long axis of the body; the distal concavity less 

 profound than in malaya and entirely without a median carina, 

 the inner surface finely tuberculate; basal transverse ridge me- 

 dially distinctly angled, laterally extended to behind eyes. 



Pronotum (fig. 3, a) more than four times the length of the 

 vertex; the lateral margins contained more than four times in 

 the width; the lateral carinas less sharp than in malaya; pitting 

 shallow, the margins of the pits broad, blunt, and shining, leav- 

 ing a median, continuous, smooth line which becomes a carina 

 where it crosses the anterior submarginal depression, the sub- 

 median carinse of malaya at this point being entirely absent; 

 pleurse medially irregularly ridged instead of furrowed and with- 

 out a carina on lower portion. Exposed part of scutellum about 

 one seventh the lengi:h of pronotum, surface nearly smooth, 

 centrally slightly umbonate. Tegmina with pitting distributed 

 somewhat as in malaya, but far weaker and more irregular, and 

 mostly lacking the setigerous tubercles. Anteapical cell far 

 shorter than in malaya. Margin of basal cell of clavus little 

 longer on the commissure than on the anal margin. Subgenital 



