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lorse, and margins of cheeks ; apical half of scutellum, legs, meso- 

 and metapleurse with their sterna, and abdomen, except dorsal 

 disk and genitalia, yellow; hind femora brownish toward tips. 

 Tegmina pale brownish, the costal margin, as far as apical cell, 

 blackish (with a narrow extension along base of first apical 

 cell), the apical margin and appendix smoky, the region of 

 outer apical cell semitransparent. 



Head finely shagreened throughout, about equaling pronotum 

 in width, length of vertex into width between eyes two and 

 a half times, vertex distinctly longer at middle than at eyes. 

 Face about as broad as long ; ocelli nearer to eyes than to median 

 line ; distance between ocelli once and a half the width of clypeus 

 at base ; supra-antennal ridges not reaching eyes ; f rontoclypeal 

 suture obsolete at middle ; clypeus very broad at base, gradually 

 narrowed to the somewhat emarginate apex; lorse small, nearly 

 as long as clypeus, but scarcely more than a fifth the width. 

 Width of pronotum two and three-fourths times the length, 

 the length once and a half that of the vertex, anterior and 

 posterior margins subparallel and very gently curved; surface 

 finely, evenly shagreened. Scutellum as long as pronotum and 

 about one half of vertex together; the transverse impressed 

 line strongly, angularly bent, the surface distinctly shagreened 

 only on areas of basal lunulse, posterior area medially finely 

 carinate. Tegmina impunctate, smooth; radial and claval veins 

 subobsolete; third apical cell narrowed to apex. Hind margin 

 of anal segment of female strongly, medially produced. 



Mindanao, Butuan (coll Baker). 



This species closely resembles B. amentata Dist. in coloration, 

 but that species is described as having pronotum only slightly 

 longer than vertex, the face yellowish toward apex instead of 

 black, and the figure shows no extension of costal black on 

 tegmina along base of first apical cell. Distant states that the 

 color markings in Indian specimens are very constant. 



Busonia mindanaensis sp. nov. 



Length, 3.3 mm. ; width of head, 1 mm. Ochraceous, genae 

 below antennae to lorse black; scutellum brownish; meso- and 

 metapleurse black; legs very pale straw color; tegmina washed 

 with pale golden brown, the costa basally dark brown to black- 

 ish, this color narrowly extended along base of first apical cell; 

 a smoky area in apex of second apical cell, region of first apical 

 cell clearer than elsewhere. Abdomen yellowish, dorsal disk 

 blackish ; last ventral segment and ovipositor brownish. 



Vertex and upper part of face finely, transversely striate; 



