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connective Y-shaped; style clawed apically; plate with distal segment subquadrate, anterior 

 margin truncate. 



Female seventh sternum with posterior margin produced medially. 



Distribution. New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands. 



Specimens examined. 

 Coelidia picta Montrouzier, lectotype $, Loyalty Is.: Lifou (NM, Vienna). 



New Caledonia: Col d'Amieu, 130 km N. of Noumea, 350— 650 m, 2 g, 1 $, 13. xi. 1963 

 (R. Straatman); Riviere Bleue (Yate) 35 km S.E. of Noumea, 160— 180 m, 2 <J, 14. xi. 1963 (R. 

 Straatman); Col d'Amieu, 650 m, 3 J, 2 9< 31.iii.1968 (/. L. Gressitt and T. C. Mad); Plateau 

 do Dogny, 1 9> 29.iii.1968 (T. C. Maa); Col des Pirogue, 2 $, 14. ii. 1963 (C. M. Yoshimoto); 

 Mts des Koghis, 400-600 m, 9 <$, 7 9, i- 1969 {N. L. H. Krauss). 



Biology. Unknown. Collection records indicate that the species is prevalent 

 from November to March. 



Remarks. This species is similar in general habitus to ventriosa but can be 

 separated from the latter b}^ the pygofer with the secondary process and the 

 subquadrate plate. 



Thar r a spinulata sp. n. 



(Text-figs 134-138) 



Length: £ 4-60 mm, 9 5 -2 ° mm. 



General colour piceous to light brown. Crown ochre in $, ochre suffused with fuscous on 

 disk in 9; eyes greenish grey; pronotum and scutellum piceous; elytra piceous with a narrow 

 ochraceous band at apex, slightly suffused with brown subapically along appendix; clypeus 

 and clypellus ochraceous. 



Head narrower than pronotum; crown long, produced distally beyond anterior margin of 

 eyes, distal length about one-third entire median length of crown, striate radially, lateral 

 margins nearly parallel, disk elevated considerably above level of eyes; ocelli small, situated 

 anteriorly; eyes moderate size, occupying about one-half entire dorsal surface of head; scutellum 

 with short, median carina anteriorly, median length less than median length of crown, surface 

 finely knobbed; scutellum large, median length greater than median length of pronotum; 

 elytra elongate, veins prominent, appendix well developed, venation as in description of genus; 

 clypeus long, anterior margin broad, constricted near antennal sockets, without median 

 longitudinal carina, surface finely granulose, anterior margin narrowly rugulose; clypellus with 

 lateral margin constricted medially. 



Male pygofer in lateral aspect with long, straight process, process with short, subbasal spine 

 and one small, curved spine subapically, subbasal spine directed dorsad, subapical spine 

 directed ventrad; aedeagus in lateral aspect with a pair of long lateral spines near middle of 

 dorsal margin of dorsal appendage; dorsal appendage constricted subapically, curved apically; 

 ventral appendage tube-like with small, subapical flange on dorsal margin, apex of ventral 

 appendage reaching apex of dorsal appendage; gonopore apical; connective Y-shape; style 

 clawed apically; plate with distal segment elongate with dorsal margin expanded medially. 



Female seventh sternum with posterior margin expanded medially. 



Specimens examined. 



Holotype $, Moluccas: Ambon (F. Muir) (BPBM, Honolulu). 



Paratypes. Moluccas: allotype 9, Ambon, vi. 1908 (F. Muir) (BPBM, 

 Honolulu) ; 1 $, same data as holotype, in author's collection. 



