INSECTS OF SAiMOA. 



Upolu CRecliinger). " Samoa " (Swale), several examples, one of which 

 flew to light in the evening, (Text-fig. 2.) 



Text- FIG. 1. — Cldaenius samoensis Csiki. Text-fig. 2. — Gnathaphanus imqnessipennis Cast. 



My records include the following localities : Kuala Lumpur in the Malay 

 States, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Sumbawa, New Guinea, Australia and New 

 Caledonia. 



5. Stenolophus dingo Cast. 



Harpalus dingo Castelnau, Trans. Roy. Sac. Vict., Vol. viii, p. 197, 1868. 

 Stenolophus dingo Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. xlv, p. 321, 1920. 

 „ robustus Sloane, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitsclir., 1907, p. 469, 1907. 



„ quinquepustulatus Csiki {nec Wied.), Denkschr. K. Ahad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naiunv. 

 Kl., Vol. xci, p. 164, 1915. 



Savaii : Fagamalo, xi.l925 ; Salelologa (Friedrichs), ii.l913. 



■ Upolu (Rechinger) ; Apia (Friedrichs), ii.l913, 1 example at light. 



Java, Mentawei Is., New Guinea, Australia, Tahiti (Miss L. E. Cheesman). 



■ S. smaragdulus Fabricius and its variety ;S'. o-pustulatus Wiedemann, both 

 so common throughout South-East Asia, are normally spotted, but, like other 

 species with a wide range, vary greatly in size, coloration, and even in some 

 minor structural characters. 



I have in my collection an example of S. dingo Castelnau, determined by 

 Mr. Sloane, as also an example of S. robustus Sloane, determined by the author, 

 subsequently identified by him with Castelnau's species. The former example 

 agrees very well, the latter less satisfactorily, with the specimens from Samoa 



