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veins dotted with yellow and a paler transverse band before apex of clavus. 

 Base of front and eyes fuscous ; a yellowish band crossing lower part of front 

 and cheeks below eyes. Cljrpeus and lorae fuscous. Beneath dark brown, a 

 yellow or whitish spot on propleura. 



Length : female, 9 mm. ; male, 7 mm. 



Nineteen specimens. Four females (holotype and paratypes) and two 

 males (allotype and paratype) Tutuila, centre of island, 900-1,200 ft., Kellers ; 



Text-fig. 10. — Drabescus samoanus, n. sp. : a, dorsal view ; 

 b, face ; c, female, and d, male genitalia. 



one male (paratype) Tutuila, Leone Rd., ix-7-1923, Swezey and Wilder ; one 

 female (paratjrpe) Upolu, Tuaefu, ix-16-1923, Swezey and Wilder ; one female 

 Savaii, Safune, v-3-1924, Rain Forest, 2,000-4,000 ft., Bryan ; four Apia, 

 Upolu; one female (paratype) Pago Pago, 4.xi.l925, Tutuila Island; one 

 female (paratype) Vailima, Upolu ; two females, one male (paratypes) Malolo- 

 lelei, Upolu, 2,000 ft., 25.vi.1924, Buxton and Hopkins ; two nymphs. 



Two nymphs, evidently associated with this species, having date and 

 locality same as holotype, have the head produced into a narrow snout as long 

 as eye. The head broader than the pronotum and the abdomen long and 

 tapering to a very narrow tip. 



