ELATERIDAE. 



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thence narrowed to apex. Striae vague on disc ; intervals flat, coarsely 

 punctate. Apex diverging from sutural line, finely mucronate. Ventral 

 surface of body dark brown, more shiny than above, with finer pubescence. 

 Legs, epipleurae, prosternal lobe and sterno -pleural sutures, rufous. Mucro 

 bent at right angles between coxae, with the intercoxal area concave. Meso- 

 sternal cavity perpendicular, with median longitudinal carina extending back to 

 the meso-metasternal suture. Coxal lamina strongly dilated inward, with the 

 bluntly rounded outer tooth prolonged to the line of the inner pair. 



Female : 14 mm. long ; 4-25 mm. wide. Similar to male in coloration, 

 pubescence and punctuation. More robust than male, with elytra relatively 

 much narrower than prothorax. Prothorax slightly more convex than in male, 



Text-fig. 6. — Lamononia monticola, sp. n. ; A, lateral view of mucro and mesosternal cavity ; 

 B, antenna of male. 



with sides broadly and evenly arcuate. Elytra narrowed from base to middle, 

 thence more strongly to apex. 



Two specimens : Holotype male, Malololelei, Upolu, 2000 ft., 23.xi.1924 ; 

 allotype female, Malololelei, Upolu, 2000 ft., 28.xi.1924. 



In the male the pubescence of the antennae (Text-fig. 6, B) is longer and 

 thicker than in the female, but not definitely erect as in the males of some 

 species of Spilus. 



PACHYDERINAE. 

 10. Simodactylus cinnamomeus (Boisduval). 

 Faun. Oceanic, Col., p. 106, 1835 (Aeolus). 



Four specimens : 



Male, Apia, Upolu, 13.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



Females, Apia, Upolu, iv.1924, 7.V.1924 ; Samoa, vi.1917 (Swale, two 

 specimens). 



