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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



21. Pictinus pacificus, sp. n. (Text-fig. 7). 



Colour. — Variable in colouring, more or less uniformly dull ferruginous 

 brown, the antennae legs and connexivum somewhat paler. Membrane smoky 

 hyaline, paler at apex of corium. In the female the basal third of the con- 

 nexival segments especially laterally are pale sordid yellow while the anterior 

 half of the lateral margins is fuscous. 



Structure. — Small, rather elongate. Head as long as broad across eyes, 

 somewhat flattened above, apex conical not bifid, tylus not constricted at the 



Text-fig. 7. — Pictinus pacificus, sp. nov. : a, dorsal view of head, pronotum and scutellura ; 

 h, antenna ; c, ventral view of abdomen, showing position of spiracles. 



base, extending well beyond the juga to nearly the middle of the first antennal 

 segment ; antenniferous spines oblique, moderately prominent and acute ; 

 antennae more than twice as long as head, first segment incrassate nearly half 

 as wide in middle as long, second segment oval, third linear gradually thickening 

 towards the apex, fourth fusiform thickest towards the apex, its apical two 

 thirds grey with pale hairs ; relative lengths of segments, 18 : 11 : 21 : 19, 

 $ 17 : 10 : 23 : 19 ; post ocular spines absent ; rostrum more or less slender 

 extending almost to the anterior margin of prosterimm, that is just beyond 



