60 ,:: INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



57. Orphinus terminalis Sharp. 



CryptorrJiopalum terminale Sharp, Trans. R. Dublin Soc. (2), Vol. iii, p. 150, 1885. 

 Orphinus terminalis Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. xv, p. 438, 1915. 



Upolu I. : Apia, Sept. (Swezey and Wilder), 

 Hawaiian Is. 



A single example occurred at Apia. The species was only known previously 

 as Hawaiian. 



LAMELLICORNIA. 

 LUCANIDAE. 



58. Aegus upoluensis, nom. nov, (Text-fig. 10). 



Alcimus dilaialus, Wat., Trans. Enl. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 163, 1875 ; Boil., op. cit., 1913, p. 258, 



pi. 9, fig. 3, 1913. 



The name Alcimus dilatatus belongs to an insect from Wallis Island, 

 described and figured by Fairmaire, and I have given a new name to the 



Samoan species described by Waterhouse 

 and figured by Boileau under the same 

 name, Fairmaire's type is a single female 

 which has been assumed, as I believe, 

 without sufficient reason, to belong to 

 the Samoan species. I have not been 

 able to discover in Aegus upoluensis even 

 the features mentioned by Fairmaire as 

 distinguishing his genus Alcimus. The 

 female of the present species does not 

 correspond in shape with Fairmaire's 

 figure, nor is the elytral striation or the 

 puncturation of the metasternum as 

 described by him, A. upoluensis is most 

 sharply distinguished from the two allied 

 species which here follow by the occur- 

 Text-fig. 10. — Acfjus upoluensis, nom. nov. rence of two teeth, an upper and a 



lower one, at the base of the mandible 



of the male. 



Upolu I. : Apia, June, Sept., 1918 (Swale) ; Lotopa, Mar., 1917 (Swale). 



