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Philippine Journal of Science 
1919 
dark-colored forms come from Palawan. The palest forms in 
my collection were taken in Imugan, Nueva Vizcaya Province, 
Luzon. The very broad, shining, black, median portion of face, 
broader above, is also characteristic in all color phases; in the 
Luzon forms this dark color is lacking on the lower frons and 
on clypeus, whereas in the dark Palawan forms it is broad 
throughout; only rudiments of horizontal, lateral, frontal stripes 
are present in any of the color phases. The four slightly de- 
pressed and finely sculptured oblique areae near anterior border 
of pronotum are concolorous. The spine is scarcely curved 
where it joins body of scutellum, and its point is about 1.5 
millimeters above apex of tegmina. 
Abundant throughout the Philippine Islands. 
Maehserota fusea sp. nov. 
Female . — Length to end of abdomen, 5 millimeters; to ends 
of tegmina, 7.25; to end of spine, 8.5. 
Color stramineous to chocolate, to piceous, and strongly con- 
trasted. Entire face black; vertex, pronotum, and scutellum 
chocolate; posterolateral areae of pronotal disk stramineous; 
lateral angles of pronotum shining piceous; lateral areae of 
vertex and short longitudinal stripes inclosing the ocelli pos- 
teriorly, stramineous ; lateral yellow stripes on body of scutellum 
long, straight, more than two-thirds length of scutellar body 
and somewhat broader caudad; posterior border of scutellar 
body very narrowly and shortly yellowed ; scutellar spine piceous. 
Pleurae stramineous ; venter piceous to brown ; legs brown, 
femora stramineous at apex, fore and middle tibiae stramineous 
at base, hind tibiae stramineous on basal three-fourths. Ab- 
domen stramineous above, with broad longitudinal lateral arese 
brownish, the narrow venter brownish. Tegmina suffused with 
stramineous in the region of apical cells, where the veins are 
pale brown; the remainder of corium subhyaline with piceous 
veins. 
Frons shining and nearly smooth except apically, laterally 
with subobsolete indications of a few horizontal lateral grooves ; 
clypeus subrugose. Supra-antennal arese of vertex foveate; 
frontal area of vertex depressed and with a delicate median 
carina, the true vertex rugose between the ocelli. Pronotum 
very coarsely reticulate-punctate except near fore margin, the 
reticula not sharp ; the four finely sculptured depressed arese near 
anterior margin very small; median ridge of pronotum weak, 
becoming obsolete posteriorly. Body of scutellum as coarsely 
sculptured as pronotum but more irregularly; scutellar furrow 
