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verse impressed line very obtusely bent, open apically, the 

 lateral limbs not arcuate, the surface just posterior to this with 

 a few, shallow, transverse wrinkles. Tegmina with subobsolete 

 punctures along the veins on basal half, those on the yellowish 

 costa minute and dark. Hind margin of, anal segment of female 

 gently bisinuate to subtruncate, in the male subtruncate. Py- 

 gofers slender at base, compressed, subspatulate. 



Luzon, Los Bafios (coll Baker). Occurring in swarms on 

 mango flowers and probably fully as injurious as Chunra 

 niveosparsa. 



Idioscopus tagalicus sp. nov. 



Length, 5 mm.; width of head, 1.8 mm. Ochraceous, olive- 

 tinted on pronotum, scutellum yellow; a large, median, basal 

 spot on scutellum, two small spots near anterior margin of pro- 



Fia. 21. Idioscopus tagalicus sp. nov. 



Fig. 22. Idiocerinus melichari sp nov. 



notum (sometimes absent), two large spots on anterior margin 

 of head, clypeus (concolorous in male), and ovipositor black; 

 corium semitransparent, faintly tinted with brownish, more or 

 less smoky-tipped, the middle third of costa arid a broad stripe 

 adjoining claval commissure and reaching half the length of 

 clavus black or piceous; clavus opaque yellow; punctures along 

 veins few and shallow on the basal half of tegmina. 



Vertex, and face nearly to ocelli, finely, transversely striate, 

 remainder shagreened; head wider than pronotum; length of 

 vertex into width between eyes two and a half times, the length 

 at middle distinctly greater than that at eyes. Face slightly 

 broader than long; distance between ocelli two and one-third 

 times the distance from ocelli to eyes and two and a half times 

 the width of clypeus at base; front about as broad as long; 

 clypeus narrowed to base, the apex suddenly broadened, the 

 tip broadly, evenly rounded ; lorse longer than clypeus and broader 

 than clypeus at middle. Width of pronotum two and one-fourth 



