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coarsely, closely and evenly punctate, except on an abbreviated smooth 

 central line, the interspaces narrower than the punctures; the sides 

 more shallowly punctate. Elytra, cylindrical, a little wider than the 

 prothorax, slightly produced at the apex, but the margin not explanate; 

 crenate-striate, the striae not becoming shallower behind; the intervals 

 convex, smooth, each with a single row of minute punctures; the apical 

 portion of intervals 7 and 9 thickened and rather prominent and uniting 

 at the apex with 3 ; interval 9 obtuse and not carinate. Length, 3-3.5 

 mm.; breadth, 0.8-1 mm. 



Habitat. — Upolu Island: Two examples (sex uncertain), 

 Apia, 1916 (Dr. H. Szvale). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Very similar to the only other described species of the 

 genus, T. latirostris Champion (Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. 

 (2). XVI, July, 1914, p. 461), from the Seychelles, which differs 

 as follows : The antennal club is smaller ; the prothorax is much 

 more finely punctate and more strongly constricted at the apex ; 

 the intervals on the elytra are rugulose, and 9 is carinate on 

 the posterior half; interval 3 is free at the apex, and the apical 

 junction of 7 and 9 is strongly produced laterally into a laminate 

 angle, behind which the apical margin is narrowly explanate. 



