BY G. W. KIRKALDY. 371 



71. P. muiri, sp.nov. (Text fig.2). 

 Brownish-testaceous, more or less shaded or marked with 



brownish. Pilosity whitish, tufts blackish-brown. Eyes black. 

 Second segment of antennas blackish-brown, annulated with 

 white. First two segments of labium blackish-brown, third pale. 

 Tegmina brownish, variegated with white, the brown deepening 

 almost to black in a large subdiamond-shaped spot near the middle. 

 Abdomen mostly blackish-brown. Length 11 mill. 

 Navua (February; Muir); Rewa (March; Muir). 



72. Gardena pacifica, sp.nov. (Text figs.3-3a). 



Allied to G. bicolor Distant, but much smaller and differently 

 coloured, the pronotum much shorter. Testaceous-brown, labium 

 and first two segments of antennas a little paler. Middle and 

 hind legs immaculate pale yellowish, tarsi dark fuscous. Anterior 



Figs.3-3a. — Gardena pacifica; tegmen and wing. 



lobe of vertex not more elevated than posterior lobe; antennas a 

 little longer than body, first segment shorter than abdomen, 

 longer than second, third very short, fourth not one-half length 

 of second. Vertex shorter than pronotum, which is about one- 

 third longer than mesonotum. First segment of labium very 

 short, second reaching to eyes, third reaching to fore coxas. Fore 

 femora twice as long as their tibiae, with five long spines, six 

 rather shorter and a number of very short ones. Tegmina 

 extending a trifle beyond middle of abdomen. 



(j>. Antennas not pilose. 



Length 19 mill. 



Rewa (November; Muir). 



The pronotum in this genus is usually described as fused with 

 the mesonotum, and consisting of two lobes; I cannot see the 



