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Pedioscopus modestus sp. nov. 



Length, 3.5 mm.; width of head, 1.3 mm. Color ochraceous, 

 pronotum slightly darker, mesopleurae black-spotted, abdomen 

 more or less dark-colored at base and above, last ventral seg- 

 ment in male brown, hind tibise with large black spots at bases 

 of spines, the second tarsal joint apically brown ; tegmina washed 

 with very pale brownish, nearly uniform throughout. 



Head finely shagreened throughout, wider than pronotum; 

 length of vertex into width between eyes more than four times ; 

 length at middle about the same as at eyes. Face a little longer 

 than broad; distance between ocelli three times the distance 

 between ocelli and eyes and once and a half the width of the 

 clypeus at base; front about as broad as long; clypeus very 

 broad, nearly as broad at base as at apex, the tip emarginate; 



Fig. 13. Pedioscopus modestus sp. nov. 



Fig. 14. Pedioscopus maguilingensis sp. nov. 



lorse longer than clypeus but not one half as broad. Width of 

 pronotum two and one-third times the length, length slightly 

 more than three times that of vertex. Surface of pronotum and 

 scutellum finely shagreened. Scutellum about as long as head 

 and pronotum together; transverse impressed line evenly and 

 gently arcuate. Tegmina with a few, remote, shallow punctures 

 on clavus ; second apical cell sessile. Hind margin of last ventral 

 segment of female broadly long-produced medially, the side 

 plates angled apically; hind margin of anal segment of male 

 truncate. 



Mindanao, Butuan (coll. Baker) , 



A very common species, but very inconspicuous. 



Pedioscopus maquilingensis sp. nov. 



Length, 5.3 mm. ; width of head, 1.9 mm. Color ochraceous ; 

 the scutellum, except margins, brownish, the basal lunulas 

 darker, and two brown spots just anterior to lateral extremities 



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