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Head wider than long, black, sparingly pubescent with golden 

 hairs ; eyes mottled brown ; ocelli pearly, not prominent, farther 

 from each other than from the eyes and situated above a line 

 passing through center of eyes; clypeus short, wider than long, 

 continuing irregularly the sinuate outline of the face. Pro- 

 notum black, punctate, sparsely pilose, sloping gradually back- 

 ward above the head; lateral angles obtuse, not prominent; 

 posterior process strong, gradually acuminate, decurved and 

 turning downward at tip, tip extending beyond internal angles 

 of tegmina. Tegmina smoky hyaline, except the black and punc- 

 tate base which extends down into the costal area; veins prom- 

 inent, slightly elevated, and brown. Undersurface of body black. 

 Femora and tibiae black; tarsi flavous. 



Length, 4 mm. ; maximum width, 2 mm. 



Philippine Islands (Stal) ; Luzon, Malinao, Tayabas, Mount 

 Banahao {Baker) . 



Gargara varicolor Stal. Plate II, fig. 18. 



Gargara varicolor Stal, Hem. Phil. (1870), 728; FUNKH., Journ. Ent. 

 & Zool. (1914), 6, 69. 



Gargara varicolor is closely related to G. patruelis, but is 

 smaller and differs particularly in the presence of a strong 

 anterior ridge extending over the metopidium and in the mark- 

 ings of the tegmina. The species, as I determine it, varies 

 considerably in size and color, but the tegminal markings appear 

 to be constant. Stal recognizes three varieties, "a," "b," and 

 "c" — the first with pronotum black; the second black with 

 median and lateral stripe; the third ferruginous with black 

 spots on posterior process. Of these I have seen only the first, 

 but in the specimens at hand the color ranges from black to 

 light ferruginous. 



Stal describes the tegmina as "vitreis, pone medium fascia fus- 

 cescente notatis, pone fasciam subvinaceis, basi punctulatis," and 

 I find an apparently trustworthy character in the fact that the 

 fuscous marking extends into the black punctate base in a 

 wedge-shaped tooth. 



The pronotum is sparingly pubescent with yellowish hairs 

 and is very densely and finely punctate. The posterior process 

 is somewhat depressed in the middle and at the tip. 



Gargara varicolor seems to be one of the commonest of the 

 Philippine membracids, and many specimens have been studied. 



Length, 4.5 mm. ; maximum width, 2 mm. 



Philippine Islands (Stal) ; Luzon, Los Banos, Mount Maqui- 

 ling, Mount Banahao (Baker). 



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