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According to Reuter (1909), this species has a world-wide distribution. 

 The writer is uncertain about this and believes that further study could well 

 be given to material that seems to be referable to brevipes Jak. 



Subfamily CAPSINAE. 

 18. Nesodaphne knowlesi Kirkaldy. 



Nesodaphne knowlesi Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxxiii, p. 381, 1908. 

 Eutinginotum raiateae Cheesman, Entomologist, lix, p. 266, pi. 3, 1926. 

 Nesodaphne knowlesi Cheesman, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, Ixxv, p. 157, 1927. 



Tutuila : — Leone Road : 3 specimens, 24.iii.1926 (Judd) ; Pago Pago : 

 1 specimen, iv.l918, 0-300 ft. (Kellers). 



Originally described from Fiji by Kirkaldy and reported on Artocarpus 

 incisa and tobacco leaves. Miss Cheesman (1926) described this insect as new 

 from the Society Islands, but later (1927) found it to be identical with 

 Nesodaphne knowlesi Kirk. 



Guisardus Distant. 



Guisardus Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynckota, II, p. 436, 1904. 

 Nesosylphas Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxxiii, p. 379, 1908. 

 Serropeltis Poppius, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., x, p. 425, 1912. 



19. Guisardus samoanus, sp. n. (Text-fig. 4). 



Allied to 6r. pacifica Kirk., but differs in the black marks on ^^ronotum 

 and collar, also in the pale cuneus. 



Colour. — Pale yellowish, hemielytra translucent, pronotum curiously 

 marked with blackish, as shown in Fig. 4 ; scutellum with median line and 

 basal angles blackish, mesonotum blackish, yellowish each side of middle, 

 clavus with all margins narrowly blackish ; spot above base of each antenna, 

 slender median line of vertex and frons and extending upon base of tylus, 

 black. Antennae yellowish-brown, segment I tinged with reddish, segment III 

 and apex of II fuscous. Cuneus uniformly pale translucent like the corium. 

 Membrane clear, veins dark brown to blackish. Propleura with longitudinal 

 black ray extending back from the transverse impressed line that extends up 

 and along posterior margins of calli. Venter with reddish along lateral line, but 

 becoming obsolete on genital segments. Legs yellowish, femora with two rows 



