28 ' INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



impression, occasionally with a short impression in the middle line in front, 

 the whole surface finely, but rather more closely, punctured than the head. 

 Elytra broader and a little longer than the thorax, slightly transverse, finely, 

 obsoletely and moderately closely punctured. Abdomen very finely and very 

 sparingly punctured, with a transverse row of larger, obsolete punctures at the 

 bases of the anterior segments, 

 unknown. 



Upolu : Apia, xii.1924. Three examples. Type in the British Museum. 



22. Homalota variiventris Kr. 



. : , Arch./. Naturrjesch, Vol. 25, p. 34, 1859. 



Upolu : Apia, ii.l924, in a rotting pumpkin (Buxton and Hopkins) ; 

 Tutuila : Pago Pago, 24.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). Four examples. 



Also found in Ceylon, Indo-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and New 

 Guinea. 



.- 23. Tachyusa insulana Fairm. 



■■ ' ' ' • V Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2), Vol. i, p. 287, 1849 {Bolitoclmra). 



Apia, ii.l924 (Buxton and Hopkins) ; Tutuila : Pago Pago, 24.ix.1923 

 (Swezey and Wilder). Four examples. 

 Also in Fiji. 



, 24. Aleochara nigra Kr. 



Arch.f. Naturgesch., Vol. 25, p. 13, 1859. 

 . Upolu : Apia, 23.V.1924. One example. 



; Also occurs in Ceylon, Indo-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and elsewhere. 



LIST OF TEXT-FIGURES 



Text-fig. 1. Head and prothorax ; A, of Priochirus freminvillei Le Guillon ; B, of P. forticornis, 

 Fauv. 



J, 2. Gyrophaena alhidicornis Bernh. ; 7th and 8th tergites of male. 



