562 Mr. K. G. Blair on the 
elytra, which is seldom the case in M. przewalskyi. The 
description of the form of the head, the sculpture, and 
coloration of the elytra agree well with this species, but the 
characters cited above indicate a different, though perhaps 
closely allied, genus. 
Fam. Curculionide. 
Leptomias sp. 
Allied to L. waltoni, Marshall, from Sikkim; the single 
specimen is incomplete and insufficiently well preserved for 
description, 
LX VI.—The Mordellide of the Fiji Islands. 
By K. G. Buarr, B.Sce., F.E.S. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
A stncue species of this interesting family appears to have 
been hitherto recorded from the Fiji Islands, viz., Mordel- 
listena dodonea, Montr., originally described from New 
Caledonia. A small collection sent from time to time to 
the Imperial Bureau of Entomology for identification con- 
tains not less than nine species, including that mentioned. 
Of the others one species is identified with scme doubt as 
Mordella 10-guttata, ¥.; the rest appear to be new. 
Only two genera are represented, Mordella and Mordel- 
listena. The species of the latter are very similar to the 
small species of Morded/a, but are distinguished by the 
presence on the outer face of the posterior tibie and first 
three tarsal joints of series of stiff bristles forming comb- 
like ridges; these extend from the posterior edge of the 
tibize and run obliquely upwards but usually not right across 
the external face of the tibia. 
Key to the Species of Mordella. 
1. Large species (10 mm. or over), black, clothed 
with black pubescence varied with numerous 
WHIte;SPOUS os ae ge eee os vietriisiun tice oe ore 2. 
Small species (less than 5 min.), black or fus- 
cous, clothed with black pubescence, varied 
with silvery-grey spots or bands.......... 3. 
2, Elytra with scutellar white spots; four con- 
fluent white spots along base of thorax .... 10-guttata, F. 
