178 ' ; : INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Eutettix Van Duzee 



Eutettix Van Duzee, Psyche, VI, p. 307 (1892). Genotype E. luridus Van Duzee. 



17. Eutettix ornatella, n. sp. (Text-fig. 11). 



Head as broad as pronotum, short, vertex broadly rounded, slightly longer 

 at middle than at eye. Transverse line scarcely impressed ; rounded to front ; 

 front broad at base, narrowed from below antennae ; clypeus rather long, sides 



nearly parallel, narrowing 

 slightly to apex. Lorae broad, 

 approaching margin of cheek ; 

 cheek broad, margin slightly 

 sinuate ; pronotum twice as 

 long as vertex, lateral margins 

 very short, hind border emar- 

 ginate ; scutellum small, elytra 

 with distinct veins and numerous 

 cross- veinlets. Apical cells four, 

 apex rounded. Female ventral 

 segment elongate, sinuate at 

 side, produced medially, hind 

 border at centre rounded. Male 

 valve small, obtusely angulate 

 behind ; plates long, narrowed 

 behind middle to acute tips ; 

 densely hairy. 



Colour pale grey, vertex anteriorly yellow, base tinged with orange, two 

 dark dots near tip and a series of triangular points along base. Face yellowish- 

 grey mottled with light fuscous, pronotum irrorate with brown or pale fuscous. 

 Elytra grey-white with veins and coarse veinlets mostly brown or fuscous, 

 about four post-nodal oblique fuscous bars. In some specimens a wavy white 

 patch in distal part of costal areole and outer discal areole. This area otherwise 

 paler than discal area. Beneath grey, mottled with fuscous. 



Length : female, 4 mm. ; male, 3-75 mm. 



Sixteen specimens : nine females (holotype and paratypes) and six males 

 (allotype and paratypes), one abdomen missing. Upolu Island, Malololelei, 

 2,000 ft., xii.1925, Buxton and Hopkins. 



Text-fig. 11. — Euteltix ornatella, n. >sp. : a, dorsal 

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



