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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



percurrent but very feebly elevated lateral carinae, in the presence of a single 

 tootli on underside of front femur and in the much stronger and denser punctura- 

 tion of the head pronotum and scutellum. 



31. Neocrompus kellersi,* sp. n. (Text-fig. 17). 



Colour. — Head black covered dorsally with depressed, golden hairs arising 

 from the punctures ; apex of tylus and bucculae brown, eyes dark ferruginous 



Text-fig. 17. — Neocrompus kellersi, sp. n. : a, dorsal view (legs omitted) ; b, lateral view of 



head and prothorax. 



brown ; rostrum ochraceous with apex black ; antennae ochraceous covered 

 with rather long pale hairs, apex of second segment, base and apex of third and 

 whole of fourth, ferruginous brown. Pronotum ferruginous brown, covered 

 with strong depressed golden hairs arising from punctures, the cicatricial depres- 

 sion covered by a black band thin in middle but widening laterally. Prosternum, 



* This species is dedicated to the collector, Lt. H. C. Kellers, U.S. Navy. 



