»1 BULLETIN! IfUBEUH 01 m,\ii'u;\ii\i. io6loot, 



id.- gonopodi ai<- longer Anterior pan- a Utile enlarged dieted, In wide 

 view dfertallj Bubtrunoate. Styles oarried well below the interior gonopodi 

 and dietauj curved with tin- ooneavitj enudnd. 



Number ol tegmenta (male) fewer, being only forty-threi gainst a 



minimum of fifty-four QOted m tin- other ID6CMI 



Length, near 6 mm. 



A smaller and paler species than S. fijit rt.sis. 



253. SIPH0N0TU8 BENIOR, sp. iiov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 4,587. Pabatypes — M. C. Z. 4,588. Fijis: 



Nadarivatu (W. M. Mann 



Color in general light ferruginous with the usual violaceous brown darker 

 pigment over the background, this more dense anteriorly; antennae colored 

 with same pigment of which there are also the usual markings on the head. 



Antennae short and stout, a little clavate; articles short. Face narrow, 

 evenly attenuated ventrad. 



Prozonites in anterior region strongly depressed below the level of the 

 metazonites, less noticeably so in posterior region. Last tergite free above, 

 equalling the valves. 



X umber of segments in the type, a female, eighty-five. 



Length, near 16 mm. 1 



An obviously larger, more robust species than those above described. 

 Characterized in having the venter concave, the low r er edges of the 

 tergitea extending below the level of the sternites along entire length 

 of body, instead of only anteriorly. Hairs of dorsum very short and 

 sparse. Hairs on front of head short, rather dense above, fewer on 

 caudal surface. 



_\~)4. SlPHONOTUS FRATER, Sp. nOV. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 4,589. Fijis: Levuka (W. M. Mann). 



A large species like S. senior. More uniformly colored than that 

 species. While the depth of the orange or light color varies, the 

 violaceous mottlings or dots are scarcely evident excepting on the an- 

 tennae. Like S. senior the venter is concavely upraised above the 

 level of the lower edges of the tergites but in the posterior region 

 much less so than in the other species. 



The head is proportionately longer than in 8. senior. Whereas in 

 the latter species the distance from the eye to the lower end of the head 



