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plate not as long as in malaya; broadened apically where the 

 margin projects and is broadly bisinuate. Gonapophyses of 

 male with but few very weak hairs. Posterior tarsi very 

 similar to those of malaya. 



Described from a male taken on P/Iount Maquiling, Laguna 

 Province, Luzon, and a female taken on the neighboring mountain 

 mass of Banahao (types in coll. Baker) . 



Fig. 3. Signorctia tacialica sp. nov. a, upper surface of head, pronotum, scutellum ; 6, face; 

 c, side view of head and pronotum ; d, female genitalia ; e, male genitalia ; /, pos- 

 terior tibia ; g, apical portion of tetrmina. 



A provisional separation of the above two species from other 

 species of Signoretia may be made as follows: 



a\ Vertex much longer at middle than at the sides, the length equal to, or 

 more than, one half the width between the eyes. 

 ¥. Head, pronotum, scutellum, and abdomen not black. 



c\ Pronotum with 2 very short submedian carinas on anterior area; 

 lateral margins of the pronotum into the width 2.5 times; body 

 stramineous, above partly and legs virescent; length, 7 mm. 



malaya Stal. 



