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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



eyes (27 : 35), vertex about three times as wide as width of an eye (22 : 7) ; disc 

 of vertex distinctly but finely sparsely punctate ; first segment of antenna 

 extending rather more than half its length beyond apex of head ; relative lengths 

 of segments, 21 : 28 : 20 : 24 ; rostrum with first segment extending to middle 

 of eye. Pronotum rather less than twice as wide across humeral angles as long 

 in middle (71 : 37), and about three-fourths as wide anteriorly as long in the 

 middle (28 : 37) ; puncturation stronger than in C. swezeyi. Scutellum about 

 three times as long as claval commissure (38 : 13). 



Total length, 5 2-7 mm. Breadth across humeral angles, $ 1-1 mm. 



Upolu :— Malololelei : 1 $ (type), 18.iv.l925. 



Family Pyerhocoridae. 



43. Dysdercus insularis Stal. 



Dysdercus insularis Stal, Enum. Hemipt., I, p. 120, 1870. 



Dysdercus insularis Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, J^XXIll, p. 354, 1908. 



Upolu: — Apia: 1 specimen, ll.iv.l922, 11 specimens and 2 larvae, 24. xii.1922 

 (Armstrong) ; 1 specimen, iii.1924, 1 specimen, x.1924, and 1 specimen, i.l925 ; 

 Siumu : 4 specimens, 24. xi. 1923 (Armstrong) ; Aleipata : 2 specimens, iv.l924 ; 

 Lalomanu : 5 specimens, xi.l924. 



Manono : — 9 specimens, and 1 larva, 10. vi. 1924. 



Savaii : — Lealatele : 2 specimens, xi.l925. 



Tutuila : — Amauli : 13 specimens, 5.ix.l923 (Bryan) ; 5 specimens, 5.ix.l923 

 (Swezey and Wilder) ; Leone Road : 1 specimen, 18.ix.l923 (Swezey and Wilder). 

 Manua Is. : — Tau : 1 specimen, 22.iii.1926 (Judd). 



Previously recorded only from Fiji, where it is exceedingly common on 

 land recently under cotton (Knowles), but allied to the Austro-Oriental D. sidae 

 Montr, and the Malayan D. ijoecilus H. S. 



44. Dysdercus impictiventns Stal. 



Dysdercus impictivenfris Stal, Enum. Hemipt., I, p. 120, 1870. 



Dysdercus albescens Whlker, Cat. Heteropl. Brit. Mus., V, p. 190, 1872. 



Dy.^dcrois impictivenlris Kirkaldy, Froc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 354, 1908. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, 1913 (Doane) ; 1 larva, 24. xii.1922 (Armstrong) ; 

 1 specimen, 13. ix. 1923 (Bryan) ; 4 specimens, i.l924, 1 specimen, 27.ii.1924, 

 1 specimen, 1. iii.1924 (Armstrong) ; 2 specimens, 27.v. 1924 (Bryan) ; 2 specimens, 



