14 MALAYAN MEMBEACIDAE. 



than wide, extending for nearly half its length below inferior margin 

 of face, tip rounded, hairy. 



Prothorax very dark brown, almost black, punctate, densely 

 pubescent with golden hairs; humeral angles prominent, swollen, 

 blunt; metopidium convex ; posterior process short, heavy, blunt, 

 extending just to internal angles of tegmina, carinate above, pubes- 

 cent; median carina prominent on posterior process, very faint 

 behind center of pronotum and not visible on metopidium. 



Tegmina dark, translucent, wrinkled ; base black and punctate ; 

 white tomentose patch of thorax showing through just behind base; 

 dark brown fascia just beneath internal angles and dark brown 

 patch behind apex of posterior process; veins strong and prominent. 



Sides of thorax more or less white tomentose. Unclersurface 

 of body black. Legs brown. 



Length 4.8 mm.; width between humeral angles 2.5 mm. 

 Type: female. Male considerable smaller and darker. 



Locality : Singapore. 



Described from two males and two females, all from Singapore. 

 Type, allotype and one paratype in Professor Baker's collection : 

 one paratype in author's collection. 



27. Periaman sp. 



One specimen from the Island of Penang which belongs to 

 the genus Periaman and is apparently new. The specimen is, how- 

 ever, considerably mutilated and does not warrant being made the 

 type of a new species. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



