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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



20. Laemophloeus puslllus Schonh. 



Syn. Ins., Vol. i, 3, p. D5, 



1817. 



Upolu I. : Apia, Aug., " Ex Mus rattus. 

 An insect of world-wide distribution. 



21. Psammoecus pallidipennis Blackb. 



Trans. R. Dublin. Soc, Vol. iii, p. 



144, 1885. 



Upolu I. : Ajjia, Jan. 

 Hawaiian Is. 



A single specimen was found. The type from Honolulu also is unique. 



Ent. Month. Mag., Vol. xiii, p. 125, 1876. 

 P. cephalotes, Grouv., 3Iem. Ent., p. 20, 1919. 



P. wpsilon, Blackb., Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr., Vol. xxvii, p. 155, 1903. 



Tutuila I. : Leone Road, March (Judd). 

 New Caledonia, New Guinea, N. Australia. 



The types of the three descriptions quoted above are all in the British 

 Museum, and I think there can be no doubt that they are conspecific. It is 

 probable from the description that P. breviusculus, Reitt., is the same also. 



Nigro-brunneus, capite antennisque rufis, pedibus antennarumque articulis 

 duobus ultimis pallide flavis, harum articulis 7-9 infuscatis, elytris fascia lata 

 communi posthumerali maculaque magna utrinque apicali ; parum elongatus, 

 convexus, nitidus, breviter griseo-pubescens, capite lato, sat pmictato, oculis 

 magnis ; pronoto brevi, sat crebre punctato, margine antico leviter arcuato, basi 

 recto, fortiter angustato, lateribus rotundatis, spina longa utrinque mediana 

 duabusque brevioribus, tuberculis minutis anterioribus ; elytris quam pro- 

 thoracem multo latioribus, ad humeros latis, postice rotundatis, vix attenuatis, 

 antice sat fortiter, postice minutius punctatis ; prosterno metasternique lateri- 



22. Psammoecus cruciger Wat. 



23. Psammoecus biapicalis, sp. n. (Text-fig. 3). 



