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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



collection, one of wliich at least agrees^ very well with Distant"s description and 

 figure, while the other is not quite identical in the colour of the scutellum. The 

 latter character is very variable in many species of the genus. 



Comparing the specimens from Samoa with those from New Caledonia I have 

 identified them as Anisops cleopatra Distant. I give below some average. 



measurements of the specimens 

 to facilitate the identification of 

 the species. (30 units = 1 mm.) 



Length of body : (J 5-5 mm., $ 6 mm. 

 Breadth of vertex at the anterior 

 margin viewed from above : 6 

 units, 5 8 units. 

 Breadth of synthlipsis : 3 units, 

 $ 4 units. 



Anterior tibia : ,^31 units, $ 30 units. 

 Anterior tarsus : J 20 units, $ 14+9 

 units. 



Intermediate tibia : ^ 33 units, $ 33 

 units. 



Intermediate tarsus : (J 15+11 units, 

 $ 16+12 units. 



Text-fig. d.—Anisops cleofatra Distant, a, anterior Posterior tibia : 3 50 units, $ 53 units, 

 tibia and tarsus oi $ ; h, the same of $. Posterior tarsus : S 19+21 units, $ 



20+24 units. 



10. Anlsops leucothea, sp. n. Text-fig. 6. 

 ■ (^$. Shining, pale sordid yellow or pale sordid brown like many other 

 species of Anisops. Eyes pale brown. Base of scutellum more or less obscurely 

 dark. Under side of abdomen black. 



Head including eyes slightly broader than pronotum in and slightly 

 narrower in with a short median groove in middle of vertex.* Vertex narrowed 

 posteriorly, more divergent anteriorly in $ than in Breadth of vertex at the 

 anterior margin seen from above : synthlipsis = 7, : 5 in 9 : 5 in Eyes 

 more prominent in ^ than in $. Pronotum much longer than head seen above, 

 anterior margin more convexly sinuate than posterior margin. Scutellum 



p. 112, 1904), and the eyes in the (J, contrary to what is the case in the present species, almost 

 touch each other at the base (" am Grunde fast zusammenstossend,"' Kirkaldy, loc. cit.). 



* The term " vertex " (Kirkaldy, 1904) is equivalent to " notocephalon " (Kirkaldy, 1897). 

 See Kirkaldy, Wien. Ent. Zeit., xxiii, p. 93, 1904. 



