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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



colorous with front ; front narrow, tapering moderately to clypeus, broadly 

 carinate, widening distinctly toward the tip ; lorae narrow ; cheeks narrow ; 

 pronotum scarcely as long as vertex, minutely rugose ; scutellum smooth, 

 deeply indented behind the middle ; elytral veins distinct. 



Female, last ventral segment elongate, more or less compressed and carinate, 

 hind border produced, rounded. Male, plates long, very narrow at the base, 

 broadly expanded, foliaceous, apex subangulate, with an apical seta ; with the 

 plates, outer surface densely minutely hairy ; pygofer short and hind margin 

 ciliate. 



Colour, dark stramineous. Vertex with a more or less obsolete reddish 

 stripe on either side ; the pronotum slightly infuscate on the disc ; scutellum 

 with two distinct fuscous dots ; elytra with the apical part of clavus and two 

 bands across the apex fuscous, veins partly infuscate, the central part of the 

 clavus and a broad costal area subhyaline. Beneath paler. 



Length : female, 5-5 mm. ; male, 5 mm. 



Eight females (holotype and paratypes), twelve males (allotype and para- 

 types), from Savage Island, Nine, 6.viii.l918, Kellers. 



This species is evidently very close to straminea, but it is uniformly smaller 

 and the females are distinctly marked with a fuscous pattern that is different 

 from that of straminea, which, with the difference in location, seems to justify 

 a separate description. 



25. Jassoidula ochracea, n. sp. 



Vertex a little longer than width at base, rounded, scarcely subangulate in 

 front ; ocelli very large, filling a large part of the space between eyes and tip 

 of vertex ; front slightly elevated above antennae, narrowing gradually to base 

 of cljrpeus ; clypeus narrowed at base, expanded to tip ; lorae rather broad, 

 distant from margin of cheeks ; margin of cheeks scarcely sinuate ; pronotum 

 short, scarcely as long as vertex, hind border slightly concave ; scutellum rather 

 small. 



Male, valve wanting ; genital plates long, much expanded apically, densely 

 hairy, the margins, especially on the outer part, deeply fuscous. 



Colour : vertex black marked with yellowish at the base and with two 

 large yellowish spots including the ocelli ; front brown, bordered with fuscous ; 

 clypeus yellowish with a fuscous carina ; pronotum yellow ; elytra ochreous. 



