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where the setae are longer, scale-like and directed backwards; in the 

 female the three dorsal carinae disappear behind the middle, the anterior 

 half being bare and shiny, with a double median row of fine punctures 

 and a deep lateral stria on each side. Prothorax a little broader than 

 long, broadest at the base, with the sides almost straight and gradually 

 narrowing for four-fiftlis of its length, then narrowing more rapidly to 

 the apex, but not constricted; the dorsal apical margin very slightly 

 arcuate, the basal margin without any transverse row of punctures; the 

 dorsal punctures very fine and widely spaced, but becoming larger towards 

 the front margin ; laterally the punctures are very large and coarse in 

 the front half, and fine and sparse behind. Elytra rather elongate (3:2), 

 very slightly widening for a short distance behind the base and then 

 rather rapidly narrowing to the apex, the sides being almost straight; 

 the apes broadly subtruneate, with the external angles rounded ; the 

 surface practically impunetate exeej>t along the base, lateral margin and 

 the apex, but sometimes with faint traces of rows of minute punctures; 

 at the base a transverse row of large single punctures, which is continued 

 along the lateral margin (but the punctures are here much smaller and 

 shallow) and becomes a punctate stria at the apex; the whole apical area 

 rugosely punctato-striate, each puncture containing a minute pale seta; 

 dorsal outline continuous with that of the pronotum, deepest near the 

 base, thence slojdng (by no means steeply) to the ajiex. Lega sparsely 

 clothed with short white setae, Init no scales ; femora not toothed, coarsely 

 punctato-striate on the distal half, sparsely and finely punctate towards 

 the base. Length, 3.25-4 mm.; breadth, 1.4-l.S mm. 



Habitat.— Tutuila Island: 1000 feet, \'II1, 1918 (Dr. H. C. 

 Kellers) . 



Type in the British ^Museum ; cotypes in the collection of 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. 



Described from nine males and three females. 



Trigonopterus binotatus sp- n. 



Head, ]ir()tli(irax and legs black; elytra, mesosternum and metasternum 

 chestnut-brown, the base and apex of the elytra blackish ; on each elytron 

 a small elongate patch of dense white scales at the apex, lying between 

 striae 3 and 6, and recumbent white setae in each of the ])unctures in 

 the apical fourth of the external stria. 



Male. Head with strong separated punctures, ^\■]lich are nuu-h larger 

 and confluent on the forehead, which bears suberect white setae; a narrow 

 furrow above each eye. Eosfrum with three dorsal carinae extending for 

 three-fourths of its length (the median one nuudi broader than the other 

 two) and a lateral carina forming the upjier edge of the scr()l)e; the 

 furrows betwen the carinae shallowly and contluently punctate, and the 

 apical area with very large shallow punctures. Prolhorax a little broader 

 than long, with the sides subjiaraliel for about one-third from the base. 



