| ORIENTAL PLANT BUGS—HSIAO 391 
Head vertical, width across eyes 1.8 mm., length seen from above 
0.4 mm., height seen from side (to apex of clypeus) 0.85 mm.; vertex 
flat, immarginate, width 0.57 mm.; frons a little convex in the middle, 
clypeus discrete from frons. Eyes moderately large, rounded, prom- 
inent, not touching apex of pronotum. Rostrum thick, length 1.85 
mm., surpassing middle of posterior coxae, first segment reaching 
middle of anterior coxae, second the longest, third and fourth short. 
_ Antennae linear, inserted near lower end of inner margins of eyes, 
— seeond, third, and fourth segments clothed with erected long fine hairs; 
length of segments I : II : TI : 1V=0.45 mm. : 1.75 mm. : 0.9 mm. : 
0.42 mm., last two segments distinctly more slender than second. 
Pronotum subhorizontal, length 1.05 mm., width at base 1.75 mm., 
at apex 0.82 mm., posterior lobe slightly convex, very finely punctulate, 
posterior margin nearly straight before scutellum, lateral margins 
strongly sinuate, humeral angles rounded; apical collar sinuate at 
apex; calli distinct, smooth, connected anteriorly by an elevated area. 
Scutellum triangular, length 0.7 mm., width 0.8 mm., triangularly 
impressed at middle of base. 
Hemelytra finely and shallowly punctulate, with apex of corium 
reaching apex of abdomen; embolar margins subparallel, length 2.75 
mm.; cuneus subhorizontal, length 0.1 mm., width 0.45 mm.; mem- 
brane finely rugulose, minor areole obsolete, inner apex of major 
areole narrowly rounded. 
Ostiolar peritreme obsolete, venter reddish. Femora slightly thick- 
ened, tibiae destitute of spinules, third tarsal segment incrassate, claws 
broadly curvate, pseudarolia large, connate with claws. Genitalia 
prominent, right clasper simple, broadened and rounded apically, left 
clasper very small, aedeagus (?) large, posteroventral view abomasum- 
shaped. 
Female.—Very similar to male; body, length 5.65 mm., width 1.9 
mm. Vertex a little wider, length of antennal segments I: 11: III: 
IV= 0.5 mm.:1.5 mm.: 0.9 mm.: 0.5 mm. 
Close to B. bicolor Schumacher, but distinguished by longer second 
antennal segment, pale clypeus and scutellum. 
Types —U.S.N.M. No. 56733, holotype, male, Manila, P. I., collected 
on orchid (KE. Maskew) ; allotype, female, Philippines, collected at 
Honolulu, Hawaii, on root of Phalaenopsis amabilis, September 4, 
1931; paratypes: male and 2 females, same data as holotype (all bear- 
ing hand written label “700A”’) ; male, Philippines, intercepted at San 
Francisco, November 16, 1933, on Dendrobium euperbum (in cargo) ; 
female, Manila, collected on orchid, May 1, 1914; female, Bur. Agr. 
P. I., ace. No. 285 (C. R. Jones) ; female, Philippines, May 1, 1933, 
collected at Honolulu on orchid plant debris. 
