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a small median gramile near the base; the epistome asymmetrically 

 bisinnate, the left sinus being broader than the right. Prothorax longer 

 than broad, widest near the base, rapidly narrowed behind and gradually 

 narrowed in front, very shallowly constricted near the apex, the con- 

 striction continued across the dorsum as a curved shallow impression; 

 the basal margin impressed and punctate; the dorsum very evenly set 

 with strong widely spaced punctures, except along a short median line 

 that reaches neither base nor apex, the apical area much more finely 

 punctate. Elytra with five shallow dorsal striae containing strong 

 spaced punctures, the striae disappearing and the punctures becoming- 

 much smaller behind; beyond stria 5 four rows of small widely sep- 

 arated punctures, those in row 9 being much closer together than 

 those in the other rows; row 10 striate and shallowly punctate, being 

 bordered below by a continuous carina that extends from the shoulder 

 nearly to the suture; the dorsal intervals each with an irregular row of 

 very minute punctures. Sternum: mesepimeron impressed on its posterior 

 half and with traces of shallow punctures along the anterior edge of the 

 impression. Length, 6 mm.; breadth, 1.8 mm. 



Habitat. — Upolu Island: One female (Dr. H. Sivale). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Closely related to 6". pacificus Woll., which differs in the 

 following particulars : The forehead has only a single promi- 

 nence ; the punctures on the pronotum are much finer, and the 

 subapical transverse impression is shallower and interrupted in 

 the middle ; on the elytra the punctures in rows 6-8 are not 

 more spaced than those in 9, and stria 10 (with the carina 

 below it ) is broadly interrupted for the space corresponding- to 

 the first ventrite ; the mesepimeron is not impressed and bears 

 eight or nine strong punctures. 



It may be noted that Rhyncolns ohsolctus Fauvel, from New 

 Caledonia, is really a Stcrcodcriis. 



Temnorhamphus samoanus sp. n. 



Color entirely piceous, or with the prothorax and the suture of the 

 elytra blackish. 



Read closely and deeply punctate, with a small frontal fovea. 

 Hostnim slightly longer than broad, punctured like the head, and with 

 a broad shallow median furrow. Antennae with joints 2-.5 of the funicle 

 transverse, the club short ovate, compressed. Prothorax a little longer 

 than broad, widest near the base, rapidly narrowed behind, more 

 gradually so in front, and shallowly constricted at the apex; the basal 

 margin truncate and depressed below the level of the disk; the dorsum 



