204 > INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Colour. — Chiefly brownish-black and varied with pale ; head pale above 

 with two longitudinal fuscous stripes, one each side of the pale median line ; 

 pale stripes of head extend upon and for full length of prothorax, except the 

 narrower median stripe, which stops short of basal margin but appears again as 

 a spot on mesoscutum. Antennae pale, segment I fuscous toward base, last 

 two segments dark fuscous. Hemielytra blackish, base of clavus and basal 

 half of corium and embolium pale, apex of embolium and tip of cuneus white. 

 Membrane uniformly fuscous, veins darker, a clear spot bordering the white 

 tip of cuneus. Legs pale yellowish, femora brownish-black, apices pale to red. 



Structure. — Length 3-1 mm., width 1-12 mm. Head : width across 

 eyes -51 mm., vertex (interocular space) -26 mm. ; length -56 mm., from 

 anterior margins of eyes to apex -26 mm. Rostrum, length 1-71 mm. ; segment 

 I, -40 mm., just attaining posterior margins of eyes ; II, -46 mm. ; III, -51 mm. ; 

 IV, -34 mm. ; not attaining posterior margin of third ventral segment. 

 Antennae : segment I, length -34 mm. ; II, -78 mm., slender, slightly thicker 

 apically ; III, broken. Pronotum : length along median line -43 mm. ; width 

 at base '91 mm. ; swelling of calli extending nearly to base of disc, an impressed 

 longitudinal line separating calli. Dorsum clothed with fine, short, sericeous 

 pubescence ; femora with five or six rather long white hairs projecting ventrally 

 from distal half. 



Upolu :— Malololelei : 1 specimen (holotype), 25.vi.1924, alt. 2,000 ft. 

 (Buxton & Hopkins). 



Tutuila : — Pago Pago : 18.iv.l924 (Bryan). 



Subfamily ORTHOTYLINAE. 



10. Cyrtorhinus riveti Cheesman. 



Cyrtorrhinus riveti Cheesman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9) 19, p. 94, (fig.) 1927. 



Upolu : — Apia : 7 specimens, 12.ix.l923, on Bermuda grass (Swezey & 

 Wilder). 



Tutuila : — Apia : 2 specimens, 20.ix.l923 ; Amauli : 2 specimens, 

 6.ix.l923 ; Pago Pago : 1 specimen, 4.ix.l923 (Swezey & Wilder). 



Described from Tahiti, where it was " taken among Tradescantia at the 

 borders of streams." 



