26 ^ ' ■ ^ INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Hopkins) ; Tutuila : Pago Pago, 24.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). Eight 

 examples. . - ■ 



Widely distributed in the South Pacific region. 



; . " 16. Cafius nauticus Fairm. 

 , " Rev. et. Mag. de Zool. (2), Vol. i, p. 288, 1849 {PhilontJms). 



Upolu : Vailima, 9.vi.l924. One example. 



Widely distributed in the South Pacific region and Red Sea littoral. 



TACHYPORINAE. 



17. Coproporus formosae Bernh. 



• Tr. Linn. Soc, Vol. xviii, I, p. 178 (note), 1922. 



Upolu : Malololelei, 2000 ft. above the sea, vi.l924 (Buxton and Hopkins) ; 

 Tutuila : Amauli, 6.ix.l923 (Swezey and Wilder). Three examples. 



ALEOCHARINAE. 



18. Oligota (Holobus) chrysopyga Kr. 



Arch./. Naturg., Vol. 25, p. 45, 1859. 

 Upolu : Apia, vii.1924. Four examples. 



Widely distributed in East and West Indies, East Africa and elsewhere. 



19. Oligota (sensu stricto) semirufa, sp.n. 



Moderately shining, the fore parts reddish-testaceous, the abdomen 

 reddish-castaneous, the posterior margins of the segments rufescent, 

 the last two segments testaceous. Antennae with the first six joints 

 testaceous, the rest black, forming a club. Legs testaceous. Length 0-6 mm. 

 —Build of 0. parva Kr. but smaller and differently coloured, the antennae 

 shorter and stouter and the puncturation finer. The 7th joint of the antennae 

 is much broader than the 6th, the 8th and 9th increasingly broader, quite three 



