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confluent, the eyes moderately convex. Eostrum in profile shorter than 

 the head ; the declivous anterior portion as long as the dorsal basal 

 part, broad, shiny and with scattered unequal punctures ; the basal 

 half with coarse punctures that are hidden by the sealing; the genae 

 with rather long, obliquely raised, white setae. Antennae with the 

 scape moderately curved, gradually clavate, and with sparse small 

 round scales (often abraded) and subreeumbent Avhite setae; the funicle 

 with the joints all longer than broad, the order of relative length 

 being: (1, 2), 3, (4, 5, 6, 7). Prothorax as long as broad, the sides 

 rather strongly rounded, broadest at the middle, and narrower at the 

 apex than at the base; the sides compressed near the base and with a 

 short longitudinal fold above the compressed area ; the whole surface 

 set with coarse separated punctures, which become rather sparser and 

 smaller near the apex, occasionally having a trace of a smooth median 

 line in the basal half. Elytra ovate, jointly truncate at the base, 

 the sides strongly rounded, broadest well before the middle, sliarply 

 pointed behind, but the outline scarcely sinuate before the apex ; the 

 dorsal outline moderately convex, not continuous with that of the 

 prothorax, deepest at about one-third from the base, the posterior 

 declivity comparatively gradual; there are ten rows of finely separated 

 punctures, which are not striate except at the extreme lateral margins and 

 sometimes near the apex, but behind the middle there are usually addi- 

 tional confused punctures between striae 7 and 9; the intervals between 

 the rows are quite smooth and devoid of setae, except near the apex. 

 Legs slender, sparsely set with short white setae. Length, 3.5-3.8 mm.; 

 breadth, 1.6-2.2 mm. 



Female. With the elytra much broader, the sides strongly sinuate 

 before the apex, and the apex itself more produced and much more acute. 

 Length, 4.8-5.5 mm. ; breadth, 2.4-2.8 mm. 



Habitat.— Tutuila Island; Center of Island, 700-1200 feet. 

 VI-IX, 1918 (Dr. H. C. Kellers). 



Type (male) in the British Museum; cotypes in the col- 

 lection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. 

 Described from twenty-three males and eleven females. 



Allied to S phaerorhinns ("Sphacropterus' } seriegranatus 

 Fairm., from Fiji, but that species differs inter alia in its longer 

 rostrum, the declivous portion being shorter than the basal 

 dorsal part ; the forehead is striolate ; the pronotum is granular 

 between the punctures; the elytra are much less abruptly acu- 

 minate behind in the female, the punctures are larger and 

 deeper, and the alternate intervals finely granulate. 



