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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



a broad median longitudinal fascia, black. Pleura moderately strongly punctate, 

 black ; the anterior margin and the outer posterior angle (except for a small 

 brown spot just within the angle), of the proplem'on, all the acetabular areas, 

 the auriculate metasternal orifice and the surrounding area (mostly), dull yellow ; 

 posterior margin of metasternum pallid, laminate and broadly emarginate, but 

 with the outer angles rounded and not prominently angular. Hemielytra pale 

 yellowish-grey, the inner angle of the clavus, the claval commissure, three 

 elongate spots along apical margin of corium, one at each end, and one in the 

 middle, dark brown, the outer sector and a spot on the inner sector of the corium 

 obscurely fuscous ; rather less than the basal third of the total length of the 

 costal margin of corium (20 : 70) parallel with axis of body and provided with 

 fringe of grey hairs ; thence costal margin gradually dilated ; membrane hyaline 

 more or less obscurely marked with brown. 



Abdomen below imjjunctate, yellow with the usual double, more or less 

 interrupted fascia down each side, the disc at the base and a narrow stripe 

 over the basal two-thirds of the ovipositor brownish-black. Legs yellow ; the 

 coxae and basal parts of the femora much brighter : femora spotted with 

 brownish-black ; the apex of the first tarsal joint and the whole of the third 

 fuscous. The whole insect more or less covered with shaggy grey pubescence. 



Total length, 4-7 mm. Breadth across humeral angles, 1-6. mm. 



New Hebrides — Efate Is., Havannah Harbour, 1 $ (type), 13. vi. 1900 (J. J. 

 Walker). 



Samoa: — Tutuila : 1,100-1,200 ft., 20 specimens, iv.l918 ; centre of Is., 

 900-1,200 ft., 1 specimen, 30.vi.l918 ; 1,000 ft., 8 specimens, 25.viii.1918 ; 

 1,000-1,200 ft., 4 specimens, xii.1918 (Kellers) : Fagasa : 1 specimen, 9.ix.l923 

 (Swezey and Wilder). 



This very distinct species is allied to N. caledoniae Dist. (New Caledonia), 

 but is a larger insect with different colour markings, and the antennal segments 

 of different relative lengths. 



Its absence from Upolu and Savaii is remarkable. 



Subfamily Geocorinae. 



29. Germalus samoanus, sp. n. (Text-figs. 13, 14, and 16). 



Colour.— and Head bright yellow shading to orange towards apex, an 

 elongate triangular mark extendmg from near the apex of tylus to the base of 

 I he vertex and widening to include the ocelli, a short broad stripe along posterior 



