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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



yellow. Vertex yellow with curved fuscous stripes at side ; pronotum dark 

 fuscous ; lateral portions yellowish ; elytra metallic, bronzy, somewhat irides- 

 cent, purplish toward the tip ; base of clavus and patch on base of corium dark 

 greenish, apical cells smoky, costa with a hyaline patch at centre and in the 

 first a^pical cell ; beneath the front fulvous, cheeks yellowish, legs yellowish 

 becoming fulvous before tips of femora and tibiae, abdomen black above, pale 

 brown below, base of last ventral segment and sides of pygofer fuscous. 

 Length, 5-5 mm. 



One specimen : female (holotype) Nukualofa, Tonga, 16.ii.l925, Hopkins. 



This interesting little species seems to be somewhat intermediate between 

 Jassus and Jassoidula, but inmost characters it seems to fit in with the latter 

 genus. 



28. Jassoidula limbata, n. sp. 



Head narrower than pronotum ; vertex moderately produced before the 

 eyes, widening gradually from the base, a little longer than width at base ; 

 antennae long, reaching hind coxae ; front narrow, narrowed below the eyes, 

 tapering to clypeus ; clypeus long, twice as long as width at base, weakly 

 carinate ; lorae narrow ; cheeks scarcely sinuate below the eyes ; pronotum 

 nearly as long as vertex, beneath carinate, hind border sinuate ; elytral margins 

 nearly parallel, apex rounded. 



Female, last ventral segment half longer than preceding, distinctly pro- 

 duced, a broad median lobe with a small notch at the tip ; ovipositor half longer 

 than pygofer, reaching tip of elytra. Male, plates rather thick at base, much 

 expanded, flat on the apical part and densely covered with long whitish hairs. 



Colour, light brovm ; the eyes, apex of vertex, sides of pronotum, most of 

 the elytra, fuscous ; the disc of vertex, pronotum, and scutellum brown ; sides 

 of vertex, the inner border of clavus and the costa and an apical margin of 

 elytra, pale brown or yellowish ; beneath pale yellowish, the front fuscous at 

 base, lower part and clypeus fulvous ; veins and tergum blackish ; ovipositor, 

 margin of pygofer black, tip of ovipositor brown. In the male the abdomen 

 is dark beneath as well as above with the margins of the segments pale. 

 Length, 8 mm. 



One female specimen (holotype) Malololelei, Upolu, 2,000 ft., vi.l924, 

 Buxton and Hopkins ; one male (allotype) Savaii, Salailua, v. 1923- 1924, 

 Bryan. 



