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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



' 13. Mochtherus tetraspilotus Macl. 



Dromius tetraspilotus Macleay, Ann. Jav., p. 25, 1825 ; Schaum, Bed. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. iv, 

 p. 187, 1860. 



Mochtherus tetraspilotus Chaudoir, Mem.sur les Coptoderides, Ann. Sac. Ent. Belg., Vol. xii, p. 241, 

 1869 ; Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), Vol. xvii, p. 203, 1886 ; id., Ann Mus Civ. Gen., 

 Vol. xxxii, p. 412, 1892 ; Bouchard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Vol. Ixxii, p. 174, 1903 ; Heller, 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., Jahrg. 1916, p. 273, 1916 ; Andrewes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1919, 

 p. 163, 1919 ; id., Ent. Month. Mag., Vol. Ixii, p. 70, 1926. 



Thyreopterus tetrasemus Dejean, Spec. Gen., Vol. v, p. 448, 1831. 



Mochtherus angulatus Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm., p. 76, 1846 ; Redtenbacher, Reis. 

 Novar., Zool., Vol. ii. Col., p. 7, 1867 ; Andrewes Trans. Ent. Soc. Land., 1923, p. 45, 1923 ; 

 id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1924, p. 461, 1924. 



Panagaeus retractus Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), Vol. 

 ii, p. 203, 1858 ; Andrewes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1919, p. 189, 1919. 

 Cyrtopterus quadrinotatus Motcliulsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 

 Mosc, Vol. xxxiv. No. I, p. 106, 1861. 



Upolii : Malololelei, 25. iv. 1924 ; Apia, iv., 

 ix.l925. 



One of the commonest species of South- 

 East Asia, found throughout India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, the Andaman Is., Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago, Christmas I. (Malay region), Indo- 

 China, and Formosa. I have no record of its 

 occurrence in New Guinea or Australia. (Text- 

 fig. 8.) 



In India this insect is frequently found 

 under bark, and Dr. Beeson mentions it as 

 havino; on one occasion in Burma been attracted 



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Text-fig. 8. — Mochtherus tetra- 

 spilotus Macleay. 



to newly felled Tectona grandis. 



14. Endynomena pradieri Fairm. 



Plochionus pradieri Fairmaire, Rev. Mag. Zool. (2), Vol. i, p. 34, 1849. 



E'ndynomena jj^adieri Chaudoir, Mon. des Callidides, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. xv, p. 186, 1872 ; 



Bates, Atm. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6), Vol. ix, p. 283, 1889. 

 Saronychium inconspicuum Blackburn, Ent. Month. Mag., Vol. xiv, p. 142, 1877 ; Andrewes, Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), Vol. iii, p. 483, 1919. 

 Endynomena huebneri Fairmaire, Pet. Nouv. Ent., Vol. ii, p. 286, 1878 ; id., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 



(6), Vol. i, p. 245, 1881. [New syn.] 

 Thyreopterus paroecus Csiki, Denkschr. K. AJcad. Wiss. Wien., Math.-Naturiv. Kl., Vol. xci., p. 164, 



1915. [New syn.]. 



