330 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 



Genus BALOCHA Distant 



The genus Balocha represents an extreme reduction in the 

 venation of the tegmina, this being the only character of possibly 

 generic value mentioned by Distant. I believe that the type 

 should be reexamined as to the exact form of the front, since 

 the figure of the ty^pe shows a condition in the upper lateral 

 sutures that is certainly open to question. The Philippine spe- 

 cies placed here would be classified under Busonia in Distant's 

 synopsis, and even resembles Biisonia in color plan, but the 

 facial characters in Busonia are unmistakable. 



Balocha busonioides sp. nov. 



Length, 4 mm. ; width of head, 1.3 mm. Color sordid ochra- 

 ceous above, very pale straw color below; head with two adjoin- 

 ing dark clouds on upper part of face, small black spots next 

 ocelli, and dark clouds between ocelli and eyes; an indistinct 

 and very oblique craticulum on front; pronotum olive-tinted; 

 basal area of scutellum brownish ; tegmina semitransparent with 

 brown veins, tinted with golden brown, darker basally, costa 

 broadly dark brown or black as far as the first apical cell ; clavus 

 with a narrow yellowish stripe lying next basal half of com- 

 missure; abdomen with more or less of dorsum and side plates 

 of genitalia dark-colored ; mesopleurse with black spots. 



Head and pronotum shagreened throughout, this shagreening 

 somewhat transverse on vertex. Head distinctly wider than 

 pronotum; length of vertex into width between eyes two and 

 three-fourths times, its length at middle slightly greater than 

 that at eyes. Face distinctly longer than broad; ocelli nearer 

 to eyes than to median line ; distance between ocelli nearly twice 

 the width of clypeus at base ; length of front once and a fourth 

 the width; clypeus small, short, about as broad at apex as at 

 base, tip emarginate; lorse longer than clypeus and about half 

 as wide. Width of pronotum two and a half times the length, 

 the length two times that of vertex; anterior margin slightly 

 arcuated, posterior margin nearly straight. Scutellum as long 

 as pronotum and one third of vertex together; surface evenly 

 shagreened throughout ; transverse impressed line strong, obtuse- 

 angularly bent, apex widely open, the lateral limbs straight. 

 Tegmina smooth, thin, with a few very minute punctures on 

 clavus, which has only one evident discal vein. Hind margin 

 of anal segment of male strongly rounded at sides, truncate me- 

 dially; pygofers very slender, thin, twisted, and long-haired. 



Luzon, Mount Maquiling {coll. Baker). 



