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Described from a pair collected at Manila, the female on Feb- 
ruary 14, 1917, and the male on April 5, 1917. The male is 
slightly smaller than the female but shows the same characteristic 
grayish white pubescence. Type and allotype in my collection. 
Cryptaspidia tagalica Stal. 
Add : Habitat. — Panay, Antique Province, Culasi ( McGregor ) . 
One female taken June 1, 1918. 
Cryptaspidia elevata sp. nov. Plate I, fig. 7. 
Recognized by the thick, elevated posterior process and the 
auriculate humeral angles. 
Black, punctate, hairy ; no suprahumeral horns ; humeral angles 
projecting as broad rounded lobes; scutellum entirely concealed; 
posterior process suddenly turned upward at tip ; tegmina marked 
with black. 
Head wider than long, black, densely covered with long yel- 
lowish hairs which entirely conceal the punctation; base weakly 
sinuate; eyes large, brown; ocelli prominent, pearly, a little 
farther from each other than from the eyes and situated slightly 
above a line passing through centers of eyes; clypeus wider 
than long, oval, extending only a little below the rounded outline 
of the inferior margins of the genae, tip broadly rounded and 
hairy. 
Pronotum black, punctate, thickly covered with long, yellow- 
ish hairs; metopidium very convex, rounded, wider than high, 
slightly flanged at inferior margin; humeral angles produced 
into broad earlike lobes rounded at tips; suprahumeral horns 
absent; posterior process short, heavy, much depressed at base, 
suddenly elevated at apex to form a heavy flattened spine, tip 
suddenly acute, flattened laterally and having carinae above, 
below, and in the center of each side and reaching just beyond 
the internal angles of tegmina. 
Tegmina closely impinging on lateral margins of pronotum; 
smoky hyaline, base and basal fourth of costal margin black and 
punctate; faint brown band across center of tegmen below in- 
ternal angle, most distinct at costal edge. 
Undersurface of body black and very hairy. Posterior tro- 
chanters unarmed. Legs uniform brown ; tibiae armed with long, 
thin, spinous hairs, distal ends with black spines. 
Length, 7 millimeters; width between tips of humeral angles, 
3.8. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio {Baker ) . 
Type, a female. 
