INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



14. Hecaloidella nitida, n. sp. (Text-fig. 8). 



Text-fig. 

 n. sp 



Female : head slightly wider than pronotum ; vertex large, scarcely as 

 long as wide at base, rounded, in female faintly subangulate, margin thin ; 

 ocelli close to eyes ; front broad, sinuate next antennae, tapering sharply to 

 clypeus ; clypeus longer than broad, widening apically ; lorae broad, almost 



touching margin of cheek ; cheek broad, margin 

 faintly sinuate. Pronotum scarcely longer than 

 vertex, strongly arched before, lateral margin 

 very short, hind border slightly emarginate ; 

 scutellum wider than long, with a curved in- 

 dented line behind the half-way point. Elytra 

 polished, veins distinct, nodal areole shorter than 

 outer anteapical, outer apical broad, resting on 

 nodal, outer anteapical and part of middle ante- 

 apical. Second apical narrow at base, much 

 wider at apex. Female, last ventral segment 

 about twice longer than preceding, truncate ; 

 py gofer scarcely exceeded by ovipositor and 

 not reaching tip of elytra. 



Colour : vertex, pronotum and face pale 

 yellowish, translucent. Margin of vertex, scutellum, elytral veins tinged with 

 fuscous or pale brown. Elytra hyaline with fuscous patches on tips of claval 

 veins, the discal cross-veins and the veins at base of outer apical areole and 

 margin of apical cells. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



Male. What I am confident is the male of this species, having same locality 

 of capture, has the vertex rounded and not at all subangulate and the most of 

 the pronotum and all of scutellum, elytra, and all beneath except the face are 

 deeply suffused ^vith piceous. The male valve is very small, the hind border 

 rounded, the plates broad at base, narrowed and acutely pointed at apex. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



The female (holotype) and male (allotype) are both from Malololelei, Upolu, 

 2,000 ft., vii.1924, Buxton and Hopkins. 



This species seems to bear some resemblance to Parabolocratus wallengreni 

 Stal, but must, I beheve, have different generic position. 



8.^ — Hecaloidella nitida, 

 a, dorsal view, head, 

 pronotum and scutellum ; h, 

 female, and c, male genitalia ; 

 d, elytron. 



