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blance to Dryophfhorus, from which it differs in not having 

 the prosternum in one plane, in its hood-Hke pronotum, small 

 antennal club, short scape, short metasternum, and, above all, 

 in its deep prosternal furrow and strongly sinuate gular margin, 

 characters which I have not observed elsewhere in the 

 Cossoninae. 



Glyphostethus cancellatus sp. n. 



Male. Color dull black, the foveae filleil with light brown ijienistation 

 (possibly advontitioas) ; the antennae and legs red-brown. 



Head finely rugulose all over, and with a faint transverse depression 

 across the forehead. Hostruvi narrowed from the base to the middle 

 and then grndnally dilated to the apex; the upjier surface distinctly' 

 rugulose, without furrows or carinae. Prothorax as long as broad, very 

 convex with the sides gently rounded in the basal two-thirds, strongly 

 and very broadly constricted at the apex, the whole apical area being 

 depressed much below the level of the posterior portion; the basal margin 

 truncate and depressed, the apical strongly and broadly rounded ; the 

 whole surface covered evenly with large reticulate foveae. Elytra parallel- 

 sided from the shoulders to beyond the middle, sharply constricted before 

 the apices, which are jointly and broadly rounded; the basal margin 

 truncate in the middle as far as interval 4, and shallowly bisinuate 

 between that and the shoulder; the broad shallow striae with regular 

 rows of large reticulate foveae, the septa in tlie rows being as broad as 

 the intervals between the rows; the intervals finely rugulose; a shallow 

 impression behind the scutellum and a much deeper one on each side 

 near the apex. Length, 3.25 mm. ; breadth, 1.4 mm. 



Habitat.— Upolu Island: One male, Apia, 1916 (Dr. H. 

 Szvale) . 



Type in the British INIuseum. 



Pentarthrum cyl'ndricum Woll. 



Habitat.— Upolu Island: One female. Apia, 1916 (Dr. H. 

 Szvale) . 



This species is widely distributed throughout the Tropics. 



Oxydema frsiforme Woll. 



Habitat. — Upolu Island: Six males and eight females. Apia, 

 1916; one male, Tafua Volcano, 1917 (Dr. H. Swalc). 



This is another widely distributed species. , Originally de- 

 scribed from Ceylon, it occurs also in the Seychelles. Rodri- 

 guez, the Marquesas Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. Speci- 



