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a small median granule near the base; the epistome asymmetrically 

 bisinuate, the left sinus being broader than the right. Prothorax longer 

 than broad, widest near the base, rapidly narrowed behind and gradually 

 narroweil in front, very shallowly constricted near the apex, the con- 

 striction continued across the dorsum as a curved shallow impression; 

 the basal margin imj)ressed and })unetate; the dorsum very evenly set 

 with strong widely spaced [junctures, execjit along a short median line 

 that reaches neither base nor apex, the a])ical area much more finely 

 punctate. Elytra with five shallow dorsal striae containing strong 

 spaced punctures, the striae disajipearing and the punctures becoming- 

 much smaller behind; beyond stria 5 four rows of small widely sep- 

 arated punctures, those in row 9 being much closer together than 

 those in the other roAvs; row 10 striate and shallowly punctate, being 

 bordered below by a continuous carina that extends from the shoulder 

 nearly to the suture; the dorsal inter^•als each with an irregular row of 

 very minute punctures. Sternum: mesepimeron impressed on its posterior 

 half and with traces of shallow punctures along the anterior edge of the 

 impression. Length, 6 mm.; breadth, 1.8 mm. 



Habitat. — Upolu Island: One female (Dr. H. Szvale). 



Type in the British Mnseum. 



Closely related to S. pacificiis Woll.,, which differs in the 

 following' particulars : The forehead has only a single jiromi- 

 nence : the punctures on the pronotum are much finer, and the 

 subapical transverse impression is shallower and interru])ted in 

 the middle ; on the elytra the punctures in rows 6-8 are not 

 more spaced than those in 9. and stria 10 (with the carina 

 below it ) is broadly interrtipted for the space corresponding to 

 the first ventrite ; the mesepimeron is not impressed and bears 

 eight or nine strong punctures. 



It may be noted that Rliyiicohis ohsolctus Fauvel, from New 

 Caledonia, is really a Sfcrcodcnis. 



Temncrhamphus samoanus f^P- "• 



Color entireh^ ]»iccous, or with the prothorax and the suture of the 

 elytra blackish. 



Head closely and deeply punctate, with a small frontal fovea. 

 nostrum slightly longer than broad, jninctured like the head, and with 

 a broad shallow median furrow. Anfrmnic with Joints L'-." of the funicle 

 transverse, the club short OA-ate. compressed. Pi-othorax a little lunger 

 than broad, widest near the base, rajiidly narrowed behind, more 

 gradually so in front, and shallowly constricted at the apex; the basal 

 margin truncate and depressed below tiie lincl of the disk; the dorsum 



