214" ■ INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Stal, and others ; median line of pronotal disc rather broadly and the basal 

 margin fuscous to blackish, the punctures very evident within the dark colour. 



9. Length 8-7 mm., width 2-4 mm. Head : width 1-57 mm., vertex 

 •61 mm. ; median line of vertex indicated by a slender dark brown line, frons 

 with several obliquely transverse striate lines ; median line of tylus, margins 

 of juga, median line of lora and extending beneath eye, reddish. Rostrum, 

 length 4-7 mm., reaching to near middle of venter, yellowish-brown, apex 

 blackish. Antennae : segment I, length 1-3 mm., thickness -31 mm., very 

 slightly arcuated as viewed from above, yellowish-brown, with numerous red- 

 dish flecks and spots, clothed with moderately prominent black pubescence ; 

 II, 5-28 mm., reddish-brown, becoming blackish near apex ; III, 1-95 mm., 

 black, basal one-third pale ; IV, 1-3 mm., black, narrowly pale at base, 



Pronotum : length 1-60 mm., width at base 2-25 mm. ; outline as shown 

 in Fig. 5 ; disc rather smooth, distinctly punctate but not rugulose, without 

 trace of striations found in H. vitrifennis Stal and related species ; yellowish to 

 brownish, median line of disc and basal margin fuscous to blackish. Scutellum 

 depressed on median line, punctate, the apex suddenly declivous and acute, 

 base and apex blackish, the depressed apex reddish. 



Hemielytra translucent, as characteristic for the genus, veins as shown in 

 figure, cuneus, except outer margin, deep red. General body coloration yellowish, 

 sides of venter with a slender longitudinal red stripe. Legs yellowish, femora 

 shaded with reddish on apical half, hind pair with two rows of small fuscous 

 spots on anterior face, the posterior face with a double row of fuscous to reddish 

 spots on apical half ; tips of tarsi blackish. 



Samoa : — Tutuila : 3 specimens (including type 9.ix.l923 (Swezey & 

 Wilder). 



Upolu : — Vailima : 1 specimen, 8.vi.l924 ; Apia : 2 specimens, iv.l925 ; 

 1 specimen, x.1925, alt. 1,000 ft. 



21. Creontiades strammeus (Walker). 



Capsus strammeus Walker, Cat. Het., VI, p. 120, 1873. 



Kangra dudgeoni Kirkaldy, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1902, p. 257, 1902. 



Megacoelum stramineum Distant, Fauna Brit, hid., Rhynch. II, p. 428, 1904. 



Creontiades stramineus Poppius, Ofv. Finska Vet. Soc. Fork., LIII, Afd. A, No. 2, p. 11, 1911. 



Creontiades stramineus Poppius, ArcMv.f. Naturges., 80, 1914, Abt. A, p. 14, 1915. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, 5.V.1924 (Armstrong) ; 1 specimen, 3.vi.l924, 

 1 specimen, iv.l925, 2 specimens, 28.iv.1925 (Buxton & Hopkins) ; 1 specimen, 



