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Tifuana, Lifu Islands, New Caledonia. The location of the types of 

 these three species is unknown to the writer. 



Distribution. — This species is widely distributed throughout the 

 tropical parts of the Pacific Ocean. It is recorded from New Cale- 

 donia, New Hebrides, Samoa, Tahiti, New Britain, New Guinea, 

 Hawaii, northeast Australia, Timor, Ternate, Molucca, and the Fiji, 

 Marquesas, Woodlark, Solomon, Arou, and eastern Sunda Islands. 

 It was intercepted at New York, April 13, 1939, in Cryptocarya pal- 

 merstoni logs from Australia, but so far as known, has not become 

 established in the United States. 



Hosts. — Lesne (1901 ) recorded religiosus as living in "Arbre a Pain" 

 (Artocarpus inciso) and in "Bourao" (Hibiscus tiliaceus) in Tahiti. 

 Lever (1945) reported it attacking branches of avocado pear (Persea 

 americana) , cocoa (Theobroma cacao) , and in the roots of stored derris 

 {Derris elliptica) in the Fiji Islands. Montrouzier (1861) recorded 

 this species as injuring wooden constructions in New Caledonia. 



Boisduval (1835) described religiosus from a number of widely sep- 

 arated localities without designating any of these places as the type 

 locality. Some of the specimens used in describing this species, 

 without any doubt, belong to flavipes Illiger. Lesne (1901) placed 

 lifuana and destructor, both described by Montrouzier, as synonyms 

 of flavipes Illiger. Froggatt (1927) stated that flavipes had been in- 

 troduced in timber into England, Natal, and various places in 

 Australia. 



Genus XYLOPSOCUS Lesne 



Xylopsocus Lesne, 1901, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1900) 69 : 479, 627-639 ; Jakob- 

 son, 1913, Kafer Russland, pt. 10, pp. 804, 806; Lesne, 1924, Bostrychides de 

 l'Afrique Tropieale Franchise, pp. 209, 215-217; 1938, in Junk (pub.) Coleopt. 

 Cat., pt. 161, p. 68. 



Head deeply inserted in prothorax, not visible from above ; clypeus 

 strongly transverse, truncate or shallowly emarginate in front, nar- 

 rowly emarginate on each side at base of labrum ; labrum small, trans- 

 verse, truncate and densely ciliate with long, yellow hairs in front; 

 mandibles variable, usually broadly attentuate to and rounded at 

 apices; eyes rather small, broadly oblong, strongly projecting. An- 

 tenna 9- or 10-segmented ; first and second segments robust, first long, 

 slightly arcuate, second shorter than first; third to sixth or seventh 

 segments small, compact, transverse except third, united as long as, or 

 shorter than first segment ; last three segments forming a large, loose, 

 compressed club, with or without sensory depressions on each surface, 

 the first segment of club transverse, subtriangular, second transversely 

 oblong, and third oblong or oval, narrower than second. Pronotum 

 strongly convex, arcuately emarginate in front, sinuate at base, dentate 

 anteriorly, not transversely depressed behind anterior margin ; sides 

 margined along basal half. Scutellum small, quadrate. Elytra 

 strongly convex, with or without tubercles on apical declivity. Legs 

 short, subequal in length; tibia slightly expanded toward apices, 

 slightly dentate on exterior margins, each with a large, arcuate spine 

 at apex; posterior tarsi as long as, or longer than tibiae, apical seg- 

 ment of each shorter than preceding four segments united. Anterior 

 coxae contiguous. Middle coxae narrowly separated. Intercoxal 

 process of abdomen lamellate. Body elongate, cylindrical. 



Genotype. — Apate capucinus Fabricius. (Present designation.) 



