INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



of the group. It is probably a grass feeder, as records include Sporobolus as a 

 host plant. The locality records are as follows : — 



A large series of specimens of both sexes and many nymphs from Tutuila, 

 collected in March, Sept., Oct., and Dec. 



Eleven from Tau, Manua, 17-27. ix.l923 ; three from Savaii, Safune, 

 11.V.1924, Bryan; two Upolu, Mulifanua, 16.vii.l925, Wilder; two Apia, 

 13.ix.l923, Sporobolus, Swezey and Wilder ; four Malololelei, xii and ii.l924 ; 

 four Apia, ii, iv.l924, Buxton and Hopkins. 



Also there are two smaller males, otherwise apparently identical, from 

 Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga, 5.iii.l925, Hopkins. 



This would seem to be one species that has had favourable opportunities 

 for migration, and it may be that its association with a grass that was scattered 

 by human agencies was a distinct factor in its distribution. 



Drabescus Stal. 



Drahescus Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Fork., XXVII, p. 738 (1870). Genotype D. remoius Walk. 



Distribution apparently limited to Oriental Region, with records from 

 India, Malaya, and the Philippines. 



16. Drabescus samoanus, n. sp. (Text-fig. 10). 



Head distinctly wider than pronotum ; eyes large ; vertex broad, depressed, 

 angulate, one-fourth longer at middle than at eye ; margin elevated, ocelli 

 minute on extreme edge half-way from eye to middle ; front depressed at base, 

 scarcely longer than broad, sides nearly parallel from antennae to abruptly 

 contracted apex ; clypeus long, narrow, widening to apex and with strong 

 median keel ; lorae large, broad, nearly touching border of cheek ; cheek 

 depressed below antennae ; lower part flattened, margin deeply sinuate below 

 the eye ; pronotum twice as long as vertex, hind border concave, disc trans- 

 versely minutely striate, scutellum minutely granulate, elytral veins punctate 

 except in apical cells ; claval and discal areoles rugose. Female, last ventral 

 segment as long as preceding, slightly sinuate and with a shallow notch at 

 middle of hind border. Male valve small, plates small, triangular, tips acute. 



Dark brown, infuscate in typical example, vertex fuscous, pronotum 

 yellowish on anterior border ranging in extreme forms of males to entire pronotum 

 and scutellum ; scutellum pale yellowish ; elytra brownish subhyaline, the 



