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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



Family : BUPRESTIDAE. 



Kerremans, Wytsnian's Gen. Insect. Bupresl., 1902. 



Monog. Buprest., Vols, i-vii, 1904-1914. 

 Obenberger, Coleopt. Cat. (Junk, pars 84), 1926 (incomplete). 



58. Callistroma samoensis Saunders (Text-fig. 13). 



Cist. Ent., i, p. 222, 1874 (Paracupta). 



0. oxypyra Fairmaire, Pet. Nouv. Ent., ii, p. 153, 1877. 



Upolu : Apia, 16.iii.1925. 

 Savaii : Safune, 15.V.1924 (Bryan). 

 Samoa : 1897 (Whitmee). 

 Saunders's type is in the British Museum ; 

 that of Fairmaire is probably at Hamburg, 

 though a specimen labelled " Type," received 

 from Fairmaire, is in the Kerremans Coll. at 

 the British Museum. 



59. Cyphogastra abdominalis Waterhouse. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xv, p. 381, May 1885. 

 Cyphogastra auriventris Kirsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit., xxix, 

 Bd., p. 114, July 1885 ; Heller, Arch. 

 Nat., 88, Bd., A, 10, p. 153, 1922. 

 „ gloriosa von Hey den (? Gestro), Abhandl. 



Senckenb. Naturforch. GeselL, 36 Bd., 

 Text-fig. 13. — Callistroma samoensis p. 171, 1915. 



Sndrs. 



Upolu : Apia, viii.1924, 7 examples, and 

 24.xii.1922, 1 example (Armstrong) ; 18.V.1917 (Swale) ; iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Originally recorded from Duke of York Is. and otherwise known only from 

 the Bismarck Archipelago and the Admiralty Group ; its occurrence elsewhere 

 only in Samoa is remarkable. Whether it be really distinct from C. gloriosa 

 Gestro, of New Guinea, is a point that I cannot venture to discuss without 

 going into the whole question of species, subspecies, etc., in this genus ; pro- 

 visionally I follow Kerremans in separating the two species. 



(N.B.— C. abdominalis Waterh. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), x, p. 412, 1892) 

 of Damma Is., is a very different insect, and is identical with C. staudingeri 

 Kerr. (Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., vii, p. 65, 1900).) 



