HETEKOMEBA, MALACODERMATA, ETC. 



107 



60. Chrysobothris chrysonota Deyrolle (?). 

 Ann. Soc. Erib. Belg., viii, p. 110, 1864. 

 Upolu : Apia, 18.iv.1924, 1 example (defective). 



The single specimen, lacking the tips of both elytra, agrees with an example 

 from Duke of York Is., so determined in Coll. Kerremans, in having the 

 metallic spots on the elytra cupreous, the abdomen beneath cupreous on 

 the sides and aeneous or viridiaeneous in the middle, the emargination of the 

 terminal segment subtruncate, and the median carina scarcely projecting into 

 it ; but differs in having the thorax more nitid, much less strongly rugose trans- 

 versely, and the elytra more strongly punctate. In thoracic sculpture it closely 

 resembles C. aurojpwictata Deyr. (det. Kerremans), but the latter has the elytral 

 spots greenish golden, the puncturation much finer and closer, and the under 

 side bluish-green. 



It is unfortunate that this species cannot be exactly determined, since it 

 marks a distinct advance eastward of the Melanesian section of this widely 

 distributed genus. Geographically its nearest allies occur in Woodlark Is., but 

 to only one of these, C. ■purpureicollis Kerr., does it appear to be at all closely 

 related ; the species in question differs, inter alia, in having the elytra more nitid 

 and more finely and sparsely punctate, the sub-sutural carina less sharply 

 elevated, the metallic spots greenish, and the last ventral segment with a strong 

 median projection in the terminal emargination. 



61. Agrilus indignus Fairmaire. 

 Rev. Zool. (2), I, p. 353, 1849. 



Upolu : Apia, 7 .v. 1924, vi., vii.1925, 12.ix.1923, x.1924, 1 example each 

 date ; Tafua Volcano, 19.vii. (Swale). 



Tutuila : Pago Pago, 2, 14.xii.1924, on leaves of Hibiscus tiliacea, 

 16 examples, ix.1923, 3 examples (Swezey and Wilder), 19.iv.1924 (Bryan) ; 

 Amauli, 5.ix.l923 (Bryan) ; Leone Road, 18.ix.1923, 1 example (Swezey and 

 Wilder) ; Afono Trail, 2o.ix.1923, 1 example (Swezey and Wilder). 



Tonga : Nukualofa, 23. ii. 1925, 3 examples, and Neiafu, Vavau, 9.iii.l925, 

 1 example. 



A Polynesian species, the type of which was taken in Tahiti ; it was 



