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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Five specimens : one female, Upolu, 2,000 ft., vii.1924 ; one male, Upolu 

 Island, Vailima, 12.xii,1925, Buxton and Hopkins ; one male, Upolu, Tuaefu, 

 9-16-1925, Swezey and Wilder ; one male, Malololelei, 2,000 ft., I.i.l925 ; and 

 one female, Upolu, Apia, 2.iii.l924, Buxton and Hopkins. 



3. Bythoscopus angustatus, n. sp, (Text-fig. 2). 



Small, narrow ; head scarcely as wide as pronotum ; vertex short, evenly 

 rounded ; front tapering rapidly to a narrow clypeus ; clypeus somewhat 



inflated on basal one-half, sides 

 parallel ; lorae distant from mar- 

 gin of cheek ; cheek margin evenly 

 rounded ; pronotum three times as 

 long as vertex, minutely striate ; 

 elytra hyaline, veins margined with 

 minute punctures and hairs very 

 minute or wanting. 



Male, last ventral segment 

 elongate, somewhat produced at 

 the middle, pygofers short, plates 

 hidden. 



Length : 4 mm. 

 '■ Described from two males : 

 one (holotype) Neiafu, Vavau, 

 Tonga, l.iii.l925, Hopkins ; and 

 one (paratype) Tutuila, Pago Pago, 

 9-24-1923, Swezey and Wilder. 

 This species is smaller, the colour paler, and the elytra more hyaline than 

 in chloTOfhana. 



4. Bythoscopus tutuilanus, n. sp. (Text-fig. 3). 



Broad, robust, head scarcely as vv^ide as pronotum, very short ; vertex 

 wdth parallel borders, rounded to the front ; front narrowed abruptly to short 

 clypeus ; lorae small ; cheek margins sinuate ; pronotum about five times as 

 long as vertex ; elytra opaque, minutely and sparsely hairy. 



Female, last ventral segment a little longer than preceding, truncate or 

 slightly concave. 



Text-fig. 2. — Bythoscopus angustatus, n. sp. 

 a, dorsal view ; b, face ; c, male genitalia. 



