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be examined. Dr. Forster (Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates) has 

 informed me that the type of M. trinotata Herrich Schaffer was destroyed during an 

 air raid in 1944, and Dr. W. E. China (British Museum) has told me that the type of 

 L. tnaculiventris Dallas must be presumed lost. However the original description 

 and diagram (Fig. 863) of Herrich Schaffer for trinotata and the original description 

 of L. tnaculiventris Dallas agree with the holotype of Gerris oratorius Fabricius. 



Leptocorisa palawanensis sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 201, 215, 229, 243, 257 and 321-328) 



Characterized by very long and pointed paraclypeae which are only very slightly 

 less than half of entire head length, by rostrum, which extends beyond the apices 

 of second coxae and by the form of genitalia. 



o*. Body length, 14 g mm., width, 2-30 mm. Head length, 22 mm. (only paraclypeae 

 0-83 mm.), width, 1-5 mm. Antennae, segment I, 47 mm., II, 3-0 mm., Ill, 3-3 mm., IV, 

 5-7 mm. Rostrum, segment I, 1-7 mm., II, 1-5 mm.. Ill, o-8 mm., IV, 08 mm. Pronotum, 

 length, 2-6 mm., width, 2-3 mm. Hind femora, 6-9 mm. Hind tibia, 73 mm. Distance 

 between ocelli, 0-5 mm., distance between an ocellus and an eye, o-8 mm. 



075 mm 



Figs. 321-325. Leptocorisa palawanensis, <$. 321, terminalia, dorsal view ; 322, head, 

 dorsal view ; 323, claspers, inner and outer views ; 324, aedeagus (inflated), ventral 

 view ; 325, theca, dorsal view. 



