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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



had opportunity to consult all possible sources, I have carefully searched through 

 all the publications that would be expected to include such records. The works 

 of Walker, Stal, Signoret, Melichar, Distant, and Kirkaldy have been the main 

 sources for descriptions of species from the broader Oriental faunal region, 

 including India, Ceylon, Malaya, East Indies, and Philippine Islands. 



The figures illustrating the paper have been drawn by Mrs. Celeste Taft. 

 Types collected by Buxton and Hopkins are placed in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Those collected by Bryan, and by Swezey and Wilder, are 

 in the collection of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Duplicate or paratype 

 specimens when available are in the author's collection at the Ohio State 

 University. 



Agalliopsis Kirkaldy. 



Agalliopsis Kirkaldy, Bull. No. 3, Div. Ent. Exp. Sta. H.S.P.A., p. 31 (1907). (Based on 



Div. II of Osborn & Ball.) 

 Agallia (group II) Osborn & Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., VII, p. 46 (1897). 



1. Agalliopsis fasciatus, n. sp. (Text-fig. 1). 

 Small, head decidedly broader than pronotum, eyes prominent ; vertex 



angulately arched, very short, mid-length 

 less than length at eye ; hind border 

 sinuate ; ocelli well below border, near 

 together ; front narrowing at apex ; 

 clypeus longer than broad, sides parallel. 

 Pronotum produced anteriorly much 

 beyond line of eyes, more than half as 

 long as broad, hind border concave. 

 Elytra narrowing apically to rounded tip, 

 venation obscure. Female, last ventral 

 segment truncate, faintly sinuate. 



Colour : fuscous above, pale below ; 

 vertex basally, except next the eye, 

 ocellar dots, pronotum, except central 

 and lateral fasciae, scutellum in basal 

 a, dorsal view ; b, face ; c, female angles and elytra, except costa and 

 genitalia. claval stripes, dark fuscous ; face, except 



angular projection from vertex and the ocellar dots, a median narrow and wider 

 lateral stripes on pronotum, disc of scutellum, broad costal border and two 



Text-fig. 1. — Agalliopsis fasciatus, n. sp. : 



