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a single row of large punctures; the basal puncture in each row larger 

 than the others, and in the male all the punctures in the basal half of 

 the lateral rows are very much larger than those on the disk, but this is 

 much less marked in the female; the dorsal intervals with single rows of 

 very minute distinct punctures; Legs with sparse short white setae; the 

 femora not toothed, the punctures dense and coarse on the apical half, 

 but forming regular rows towards the base. Length, 2.8 mm. ; breadth, 

 1.2 mm. 



Habitat. — Tutuila Island: Three males and one female, 760- 

 1200 feet, IV and VI, 1918 (Dr. H. C. Kellers). 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in the collection of 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. 



Trigonopterus samoanus (Heller). 



Idoiasia sanwana Heller, Denks. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LXXXIX, 696, 1913. 



Habitat. — Upolu Island; under bark of a dead tree, 1905 

 (Dr. Rechinger); Tutuila Island: Eight males, 900-1200 feet, 

 VI-MI, 1918 (Dr. H. C. Kellers). 



Trigonopterus aeneoniveus Frm. 



Trigonopterus aeiieonkriis Eairmaire, Le Naturaliste, 1879, 

 p. 3; Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1881, p. 315. 



Habitat. — Samoan Islands. ( Unknown to the writer. ) 



Trigonopterus cribrellicollis Frm. 



Trigonopterus crlhrelllcollls Eairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Erance, 1881, p. 316. 



Habitat. — Samoan Islands. 



The description suggests that this possibly is not a true 

 Trigonopterus. 



Orochlesis nigrofasciata sp. n. 



Female. Color reddis^h brown, densely clothed above with light brown 

 scaling variegated with whitish and blackish scales; the head with the 

 scaling pale brown, rather darker on the forehead, and with a short 

 median whitish stripe on the vertex; the pronotum with a very irregular 

 and indefinite whitish median stripe, and a small blackish patch on each 

 side of it at the base; the elytra with a few whitish scales round the 

 scutellum, a small well-defined oblong white patch on interval 4 at one- 

 third from base, a narrow oblique blackish band running from near the 



