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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Tliis species is a little more elongate than P. biapicalis, but less elongate 

 and smaller than P. pallidipennis. It is peculiar owing to its dark colour, and 

 especially that of the antennae, which are without the usual pale terminal 

 joint. It may be compared with P. signatus, Grouv. (Mysol), which is similarly 

 coloured, but has a jyale last joint to the antenna and a red antemedian elytral 

 bar. P. obscurus is smaller, more convex and more shining tha]i that species, 

 with less closely punctured thorax and more coarsely punctured elytra, the 

 latter with more rounded shoulders. The eyes are unusually small but very 

 prominent. 



It is perhaps permissible to mention here an unfortunate mistake which 

 has occurred with regard to another species of this genus. In describing 

 Psammoecus decor atus, Clrouvelle has given its habitat as tShembaganur, in 

 Southern India. This was evidently due to a too hasty reading, upon the 

 label of the type specimen (in the British Museum), of the name Samboangan, 

 which really belongs to a locality in the Philippine Islands. 



: ^ 25. Cryptamorpha desjardmsi, Guer. 



/coy^ i?(V/^^r Ins., p. 196, 1838. 



Upohl I. : Apia, July (Wilder). 



Savaii I. : Safune, May (Bryan). 

 . , Tutuila I. : Amauli, March (Judd), 



Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaiian Is., W. Indies, St. Helena, 

 Madeira, Japan, Mauritius. 



26. Monanus concmnulus Walk. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), Vol. ii, p. 201, 1858. 



Emporius signatus, Frauenf., Verh. Zool.-Bot. G'cs. Wicn, Vol. xvii, p. 438, 1867. 

 Upolu I. : Apia, July (Wilder). 



A single specimen, probably introduced. The insect is found in all parts 

 of the world. 



27. Monanus, sp. 

 Tutuila L : Leone Road, March (Judd). 



One specimen of a sjiecies related to the Hawaiian AL brevicornis, Blackb. 



