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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Female: 11 mm. long; 3-2 wide. Similar to male, with prothorax 

 relatively more robust and more closely and finely punctate. Disc of prothorax 

 depressed. Elytra narrowed behind the middle. Legs flavous. Apical margin 

 of last abdominal sternite deeply notched. 



Five specimens : Type male, Malololelei, Upolu, 2000 ft., vii.1924. (Geni- 

 talia dissected and mounted on same pin.) Paratype males, Malololelei, Upolu, 

 7,ii,1924 (J. S. Armstrong) ; Malololelei, Upolu, 2000 ft., vi.1924, and another, 

 same locality, vii.1924. Allotype female, in Bishop Museum collection, 

 Tutuila, 760-900 ft., iv.1918 (H. C. Kellers, ex coll. W. M. Giflard). 



This species is named in honour of Mr. P. A. Buxton, to whose energy 

 the present volumes on the insect fauna of Samoa are due. 



In the series before me, the coloration, especially of the elytra, varies 

 from flavous to reddish-brown ; the prothorax of the single female is uniformly 

 plumbeous. The antennae do not attain the tips of the posterior angles of the 

 prothorax, even in the male. The five specimens are nearly uniform in size. 



MONOCREPIDIINAE. 

 12. Monocrepidius pallipes Eschscholtz. 

 In Thon, Ent. Arch., ii, 1, p. 32, 1829. 



Seventeen specimens : Salailua, Savaii, 20.V.1924 (Bryan) ; Savaii, 

 viii.1924 (two specimens) ; Fagamalo, Savaii, xi.1925. Malololelei, Upolu, 

 9.vi.l924. Leone Road, Tutuila, 24.iii.1926 (Judd) ; "Samoa" (Swale); 

 " Samoa Is." (Rev. S. J. Whitmee) ; " Ins. Samoa," Janson (five specimens) ; 

 " Samoa," iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). Nukualofa, Tonga, 22.ii.1925 ; Nukualofa, 

 Tonga, 24.ii.1925. In addition, the Bishop Museum has a series of six speci- 

 mens : Hull Is., Phoenix Group, 24.iii.1924 (Bryan, four specimens) ; Manua, 

 Hervey Is., v.1925 (Wilder) ; Papeete, Tahiti, 17.viii.1926 (Wilder). 



Candeze gives the distribution as Polynesia. The species is said to be 

 common throughout the year in Tahiti, Society Is., on Hibiscus tiliacea, and to 

 be attracted to lights at night. 



