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12.ix.l923 (Swezey & Wilder) ; W. Samoa, 1 specimen, 2.iii.l924 (Armstrong) ; 

 Malololelei : 1 specimen, 28.vi.1924, 1 specimen, 2,000 ft., vii.1924 (Buxton & 

 Hopkins) ; 1 specimen, vii.1925 (Wilder) ; Siumu : 3 specimens, 23.xi.1924 

 (Armstrong). 



Savaii : — Safune : 4.V.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila : — Pago Pago : 1 specimen, 10. ix. 1923 (Swezey & Wilder) ; 1 

 specimen, 0-300 ft., iv.l918 (Kellers) ; centre of island, 1 specimen, 900- 

 1,200 ft. ; 10 specimens, iv.l918 (Kellers). 



Manua Is. : — Tau : 1 specimen, 17.ix.l923 (Swezey & Wilder). 



This species appears to be widely distributed throughout the Pacific 

 regions. Originally described from North Bengal, it has since been reported 

 from Ceylon (Distant, 1904 & Poppius, 1911), Java (Poppius, 1914), and 

 Formosa (Poppius, 1915). 



22. Creontiades samoanus, sp. n. 



Allied to C. novaegtmieae Popp., but antennal segment II more than two and 

 a half times the length of segment I ; also differs in that vertex of male is 

 narrower and of female wider than dorsal width of an eye. Differs from 

 C. stramineus Walk, in that length of antennal segment I is not equal to width 

 of head across eyes. 



Colour. — Pale yellowish, tinged with greenish in life, basal margin except 

 basal angles blackish, scutellum, clavus and inner angles of corium fuscous to 

 blackish, cuneus sometimes reddish. Membrane and veins uniformly fusco- 

 brownish, veins becoming reddish apically in specimens having reddish cuneus. 

 Clothed with pale yellowish pubescence. Antennae yellowish, segment I often 

 reddish, segment III and apex of II often reddish. Legs greenish-yellow, hind 

 femora fuscous to blackish, often with reddish hypodermis showing through, 

 tibial spines pale brownish. 



Structure. — Length 5-6 mm., width 1-8 mm. Head : width 1-0 mm., 

 vertex -30 mm. Rostrum, length 2-4 mm., attaining hind margins of posterior 

 coxae. Antennae : segment I, length -82 mm. ; II, 2-3 mm. ; III, 2-08 mm. ; 

 IV, 1-04 mm. Pronotum : length -93 mm., width at base 1-51 mm. 



Length 5-8 mm., width 2 mm. Head : width 1-04 mm., vertex 

 •39 mm. Antennae : segment I, length -82 mm. ; II, 2-51 mm. ; III, 2-16 mm. ; 

 IV, 1-08 mm. Pronotum : length -99 mm., width at base 1-75 mm. Very 

 similar to the male in form and coloration. 



