Mordellidee of the Fiji Islands. 567 
legs rufo-fulvous. Head slightly emarginate behind, covered 
Sein ashy-grey pubescence ; ; prothorax as long as wide, 
with vi wiegated black and ashy-grey pubescence, the black 
forming a large patch in each of the angles and two median 
pairs of dart- like marks, with point directed backwards, the 
anterior pair before the middle smaller than the posterior 
pair; elytra fulvous with suture narrowly and apex broadly 
black, a large black patch behind the scutellum and two 
lateral patches on each nearly meeting the sutural streak 
also black ; the pubescence on the black parts is black, that 
on the fulvous parts mostly silvery grey, but in parts, e. g. a 
streak from the anterior lateral dark patch to the base, and 
also between the posterior lateral dark patch and the suture, 
is also black. Style slender, fuscous, about three times as 
long as hypopyginm. Posterior tibize fulvous at base, with 
two short comb-ridges near apex, and a third long strongly 
defined ridge running from the middle of the posterior edge 
across the outer face almost to the base; the tarsal ridges 
3.2.1, are very short and ESO 
Tiaheth 2mm, without (24 mm. with) style. 
sexo sWolitin 13:1%4 21 CW. Greenwood ). 
A very distinct little species, the pattern of the thorax is 
very characteristic, and the incomplete coincidence between 
the colour-pattern of the derm of the elytra and that of the 
pubescence is very striking. 
Mordellisiena dodonee, Montrouzier. 
Montrouzier, Ann. Soe. Ent. France, (3) viii. 1860, p. 806 (Mordella) ; 
Fairmaire, op. cit. (6) i. 1881, p. 286 (Mordella). 
Described originally from New Caledonia, this species was 
subsequently recorded by Fairmaire from the Fiji Islands. 
A series of eleven rufo-testaceous specimens from the Fijis 
now before me appears to be divisible into three very 
similar species, the largest of which appears to be identical 
with a series from New Caledonia, with which I identify 
Mordella dodonea. he posterior tibive, however, and tarsal 
joints, bear very distinct comb- -ridges, so that if this 
identification is correct the species must be referred to 
Mordellistena. 
On the tibize are four short ridges, sometimes with traces 
of a fifth, uppermost, ridge, all roughly parallel with the 
apex, none of them reaching halfway across the outer face 
of the tibie; the tarsal ridges are 4.2.2; the tibial spurs 
are unequal, the inner one about twice as long as the outer 
