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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



a longitudinal stripe parallel with and just beneatii dorsal margin, red. Legs 

 yellowish and marked with red ; hind femora reddish on apical half, ventral 

 surface with two small but distinct subapical white spots from which hairs 

 probably arise on perfect specimens ; tibial spines yellowish, a rather large red 

 spot at base of each, spots on one row of spines confluent with spots on adjoining 

 row of spines ; tarsi pale, tips fuscous. 



Structure. — Length 2-4 mm., width 1-4 mm., ovate, embolar margins 

 arcuate. Head : width -73 mm., vertex -36 mm. ; position vertical, vertex 

 evenly convex, forming an arcuate line with contour of eyes ; tylus narrowed 

 to a point at apex. Kostrum, length 1-17 mm., extending to fifth ventral 

 segment. Antennae : segment I, length -216 mm., width -08 mm. ; II, 

 1*03 mm., slender, slightly thicker apically, clothed with fine, short pubescence ; 

 III, -47 mm., slender ; IV, broken. Pronotum : length -43 mm., width at 

 base 1-08 mm. ; disc rather flat, calli evident as a slight transverse swelling ; 

 scutellum flat, scarcely rising above level of clavus, mesoscutum rather broadly 

 exposed, distinctly flattened. Cuneus and membrane sharply deflexed, cuneus 

 slightly longer than wide at base. Hind femora distinctly saltatorial, length 

 1-08 mm., width across middle -39 mm. Tibial spines prominent, their length 

 about twice the thickness of tibia. Body clothed with pale yellowish pubescence, 

 probably (specimen rubbed) intermixed on dorsum with sericeous hairs. 



Upolu : — Tuaefu : one specimen, 16.ix.l923 (Swezey & Wilder). 



Subfamily DICYPHINAE. 



6. Felisacus filicicola (Kirkaldy). 



Hyaloscytus eleganiulus, var. filicicola Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, XXXIII, 

 part 2, p. 377, 1908. 



Tutuila : — Pago Pago : 1 specimen, 24.ix.1923, 5 specimens, 9.ix.l923 

 (Swezey & Wilder) ; 1 specimen, 16.ix.l923 (Bryan) ; 1 specimen, alt. 1,000 ft., 

 13.x. 191 8 (Kellers) ; Amauli : 5 specimens, 5.ix.l923 ; Leone Road : 2 

 specimens, 18.ix.l923 (Swezey & Wilder). 



Manua Is.: — Tau : 11 specimens, 17.ix.l923 ; 1 specimen, 27.ix.1923 

 (Swezey & Wilder). 



Savaii : — 3 specimens, 13.V.1924 (Bryan). 



Described from Fiji as a variety of F. elegantulus Eeut., but the writer con- 

 siders it to be a distinct species. 



