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This cosmopolitan species frequents foul rice. Blackburn records it as occurring in 

 the burrows of Apate, but I fancy this observation must refer to a closely allied species, 

 several of which are known to be difficult to distinguish. 



Hab. Oahu, Honolulu (Blackburn, Perkins). 



This species was formerly called L. pusillus, but it has recently been said to be the 

 Cucujus mimitus of Olivier. If this should prove to be correct, the Central American 

 species described by me as L. minutus will have to take another name. 



Parandrita Leconte. 



Parandrita Leconte, Smithsonian Misc. Coll. .xxvi. 1880, p. 133. 

 Lae77iophlaeiis (part.) Casey, Tr. Amer. ent. Soc. xi. 1884, p. 91. 

 Parandrita Sharp, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Col. 11. (i), p. 536, 



(i) Paraiidn'fa aenea. Sharp. 



Lacinop/i/aens aetieus Sharp, Tr. Dublin Soc. in. 1885, p. 143. 



Plate XIII. fig. 17. 



Five specimens. 



The name L. aetieus was preoccupied when I described this species, but as the 

 insect is now removed to another genus and no other specific name has in the interval 

 been proposed for it, the species may stand as Parandrita aenea. 



Hab. Maui, Haleakala, 4500 — 5000 ft. v. and x. 1896 (Perkins). 



(2) Parandrita konae, sp. nov. 



Depressa, nigra, supra viridi-aenea, pedibus rufis ; capite thoraceque crebre subti- 

 liter punctatis, hoc intra latus linea impressa; elytris subtiliter striatis interstitiis fere 

 omnino laevigatis. Long. 2^ mm. 



Extremely close to P. aenea, rather darker in colour, and with the striae of the 

 elytra finer, especially at the ape.x; the punctuation throughout is rather more obliterated. 

 The hind angles of the thorax are very obtuse. Five specimens. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kona, 4000 ft. viii. 1892, and 3000 ft. iii. 1896 (Perkins). 



(3) Parandrita perkinsi, sp. nov. 



Depressa, nigra, supra aenea, pedibus rufis, antennis gracilibus ; capite thoraceque 

 fere dense punctatis ; elytris profunde striatis. Long. 2\ mm. 



This has longer and more slender antennae than P. aenea. The punctuation on 

 head and thorax is finer, and the lateral lines on the latter are finer. On the other hand 

 the striae on the elytra are very definite, and are distinctly punctured. Two specimens. 



Hab. Oahu (no. 903, Perkins). 



