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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



flava : late ovalis, sat crebre et minute punctulatus, elytroriim epipleuris vix 

 ad metasterni partem quartum latitudine attingentibus, femoribus ad margines 

 attingentibus, metasterno antice baud anguste lobato. 

 Long. 3- 5-4- 5 mm. ; lat. max. 3-3-5 mm. 



Upolii I. : Apia, Dec, Mar. ; Malololelei, 2000 ft., Mar., June ; Mulifanua, 

 July (Wilder). ; 



. ' C. samoensis, var. tutuilensis, no v. 



Fusco-brunneus, pronoti medio nigTO, lateribus elytrorumque maculis et 

 margine angusto externo flavis. 



Tutuila I., 1000-1200 ft., July, Oct. (Kellers). 



Tbis very distinctively decorated species appears to me to be best placed 

 in the genus Chilomenes, from tbe shortness of its antennae, the absence of 

 hollows beneath the front angles of the pronotum, etc. It is a small species of 

 broadly oval shape, with only sHghtly dilated lateral margins to the elytra, the 

 femora just reaching the outer edge. The ground colour is black, with the 

 head pale yellow, broad lateral margins of the same colour to the pronotum, 

 joined by a narrow line along the front margin, the elytra decorated with a 

 blood-red nearly round spot on each in the median line and not far from the 

 suture, and a pale yellow spot, of similar size but usually rather more oval shape, 

 in the apical angle. 



The variety tutuilensis I at first supposed to be merely an immature con- 

 dition, but as the examples were found both in July and October and no repre- 

 sentative of the typical form was encountered upon the island of Tutuila, I have 

 little doubt that it is really a local race. The pale sides of the thorax are not 

 imited along the front margin, the elytra are not black but chocolate-brown, 

 with a paler basal and external border, and the spots are all of the same yellow 

 colour and oval in shape, larger than in the type form and approaching each 

 other rather closely. 



53, Coelophora inaequalis F. 



Coccinella inaequalis, P., Stjst. Ent., p. 80, 1775. 



Upolu I. : Apia, Feb. to May, Aug., Sept., Oct. ; Malololelei, 2000 ft., 

 Apr., June, July, Nov. ; Falelatai, June ; Mulifanua, Nov. ; Leulumoega, Sept. 

 (Swezey and Wilder). 



