. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 83 clothed outwardly with long pale hairs, on the inner or ventral face with numerous black chitinized points. Habitat.—Phillippine Islands. Holotype, cf, Phillippine Islands, July. Labelled " F. Casey, Wash. Thru Miss ; Allotype, 9 , topotypic. Genus Mongoma Westwood. 188L Mongoma Westwood; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 364. Mongoma guamensis, sp. n. FragUlima group; colour dark brown; no white on the legs. Male.—Length mm.; wing, mm. Rostrum and palpi yellowish brown. Antennai brownish yellow,
. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 83 clothed outwardly with long pale hairs, on the inner or ventral face with numerous black chitinized points. Habitat.—Phillippine Islands. Holotype, cf, Phillippine Islands, July. Labelled " F. Casey, Wash. Thru Miss ; Allotype, 9 , topotypic. Genus Mongoma Westwood. 188L Mongoma Westwood; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 364. Mongoma guamensis, sp. n. FragUlima group; colour dark brown; no white on the legs. Male.—Length mm.; wing, mm. Rostrum and palpi yellowish brown. Antennai brownish yellow, the flagellar segments elongate, brown, clothed with abun- dant pale hairs. Head Fig. 12.—Mongoma guamensis. Thoracic dorsum light brown, the pleurae lighter coloured, more yellowish, especially ventrally. Halteres light brownish yellow, the knobs darker. Legs with the coxae and trochanters dull yellow, femora dark brown, paler at the base, tibiae dark brown, tarsi much paler, almost yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma ' indistinct; veins dark brown. Venation as in figure. Abdominal tergites brownish grey; sternites more yellowish. Habitat.—Island of Guam, Ladrones. Holotype. cf, Guam, Ladrones, D. T. Fulloway coll. No. 1385. This species diflers from all of the related regional species of the fragillima group by the lack of white on the legs, pennipes , tenera O. S., and pallidiventris Brun. having the tarsi snowy-white. M. cariniceps End. from Sumatra is a very different insect from any of these species and is easily separated by its large size and orange colour. M. albipennis Meij. from Java is larger than guamensis and has the wings and veins Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871); Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ); En
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