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Tutuila : — -Pago Pago: 2 specimens. 2.xii.l924; 1 specimen, 16.iv.l924 

 (Bryan) ; 4 adults and 3 larvae, 29.ix.1923 (Swezy and Wilder) ; Afono Trail : 

 1 adult and 1 larva, 25.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; Amauli : 1 specimen, 

 3.ix.l923 (Bryan). 



This species has been recorded from Fiji, Tonga, Wallis Is., the Marianne 

 Is., and also from Gilolo and Sula Is. in the Austro-Oriental Subregion. 



Family Cydnidae Billberg. 



2. Geotomus pygmaeus (Dallas). 

 Aethus pygmaeus Dallas, List. Hemipt. Brit. Mus., I, p. 120, 1851. 



Cydnus rarociliatus BUenrieder, Nat. Tijdsskr. Ned. Ind., XXIV, p. 139, pi. 1, fig. 7, 1862. 

 Aethus nanulus, Walker, Cat. Heteropt. Brit. Mus., I, p. 162, 1867. 

 Aethus platysomoides Walker, torn, cit., p. 163, 1867. 

 Aethus omicron Walker, op. cit., Ill, p. 534, 1868. 

 Cydnus pallidicornis Vollenhoven, Faun. Ind. Neerl., p. 17, 1868. 

 ■ Geotomus jucundus Buchanan White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), XX, p. 110, 1877. 

 Geotomus suhtristis Buchanan White, torn, cit., p. Ill, 1877. 

 Geotomus apicalis Horvath, Termesz. Filzet., Ill, p. 143, 1879. 

 Aethus palliditarsus Scott, Trans. Ent. Sac. Land., 1880, p. 309. 



Geotomus pygmaeus Signoret, Ann. Sac. Ent. France, (6), III, p. 51, t. 3, fig. 160, 1883. 

 Geotomus pygmaeus Kirkaldy, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, I, p. 145, 1907. 

 Geotomus pygmaeus Cheesman, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land., p. 154, 1927. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, i.l925, 1 specimen, 10. ii. 1924, 3 specimens, 

 iii.1924, 4 specimens, iv.l924, 1 specimen, v. 1924, 1 specimen, x.1924, 11 speci- 

 mens, xi.l924, and 3 specimens, xii.1924 ; Malololelei : 1 specimen, iv.l924, 

 and 1 specimen, xi.l924 (2,000 ft.). 



Savaii : — Salailua : 1 specimen, 19.V.1924 (Bryan). 



Tutuila :— 760-900 ft., 2 specimens, iv.l918, 1,000 ft., 2 specimens, 

 25.viii.1918, centre of Island, 900-1,200 ft., and 1 specimen, 30.vi.l918 (Kellers) ; 

 Pago Pago : 0-300 ft., 3 specimens, iv. 1918 (Kellers). 



Recorded from India, Burma, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Cochin- 

 China, China, Japan, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tahiti, Raiatea, and Hawaii.* 



It is doubtful if all these records refer to the same species. The Cydnidae 

 are a difficult group, and several species may have been confused. The Samoan 

 specimens, however, have been compared with Dallas' type, labelled India, and 



* Kirkaldy (Proc. Unn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 349, 1908) states that this species was 

 introduced into Hawaii in the soil attached to plants, and suggests that this accounts for its 

 extensive distribution. 



