Mordellidee of the Fiji Islands. 563 
Klytra without scutellar spots; two white 
Bpotsiat,base of thorax). Ff. .4 igs oe ann vitiensis, sp. 0. 
3. Thorax, basal half of elytra and legs obscurely 
reddish, antennz and abdomen paler; elytra 
each with three silvery spots ....,....... nigroterminata, sp. 0. 
Black, except labrum, palpi, base of antenne, 
santerior femora, and posterior tibial spurs, 
which are testaceous; elytra with two 
@plique silvery fasciO: os 5 4). 0 colle ce ne veitchi, sp. n. 
Mordella decemguttata, Faby. 
Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth, ii. 1801, p. 125; Montrouzier, Amn. Soe. Agr. 
Lyon, vii. 1, 1855, p. 34. 
Mordella plurmotata, Blanchard, Vey. Pole Sud, iv. 1853, p. 190, 
pl. xii. fig. 16. 
Two specimens—1(F. P. Jepson), 1909, ‘‘on orange-tree”’; 
1 (W. Greenwood), 1. v. 1921. Mts. Lautoka. 
This identification and synonymy are perhaps a little doubt- 
ful. Fabricius originally described the species from Java, 
but this was probably in error; at least I have seen no 
specimen answering to the description from anywhere in 
that region. Montrouzier later more fully described what 
he considered to be the same species from Woodlark Id. 
(near the 8.E. end of New Guinea). Except that he de- 
scribes the spots as yellow (and in some allied species they 
are sometimes yellow), his description quite fits the specimens 
from Fiji. Previously to this Blanchard had described and 
figured M. plurinotata from Ceram, and with this also the 
Fiji examples agree well. 
The Australian M/. 14-maculata, Macleay (?=M. vitti- 
collis, Lea), is very closely allied, but the thorax of the Fiji 
species is more quadrangular, more strongly transverse, and 
differently marked, the sides lacking the white border and 
the spots, except the basal row, not confluent or connected 
by lines. 
Mordella vitiensis, sp. n. 
Large, black, clothed with black pubescence, variegated 
with white spots and lines which are arranged as follows :— 
head, a narrow white margin on each side of base; thorax, 
four white spots in a slightly arcuate line a little before the 
middle, the outer pair near the sides, a round spot on each 
side of base opposite the middle of the base of each elytron ; 
elytra, a round spot (No. 1) on each directly behind the 
basal thoracic spot nearly as far from it as the two latter are 
from one another, a minute spot (No. 2) a little behind this 
