HETEROMERA, MALACODERMATA, ETC. 97 



specimens from different parts of the world. Stephens's original specimen 

 was taken in a wasp's nest. 



43. Minthea rugicollis Walker. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), ii, p. 206, 1858 {Ditoma). 



M. similata Pascoe, Journ. Ent., ii, p. 141, 1863 (Saylee). 



Lyctus seriehispidus Kiesenwetter, Deutsch. Ent. Zeits., xxiii, p. 319, 1879 (Japan). 

 Eulachus hispidus Blackburn, Trans. R. Dublin Soc. (2), iii, p. 141, 1885 (Hawaii). 



Tutuila : Amauli, 5.ix.l923, 1 example (Bryan). 



Except that it does not seem to have been recorded from the New World, 

 this species, of which the type locality is Ceylon, appears now to be almost 

 as widely spread as the preceding. 



Family : BOSTRYCHIDAE.* 

 44. Rhizopertha dominica Fabricius. 



Ent. Syst., 1, 2, p. 359, 1792 ; Lesne, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxvi, figs. 13, 21, 276, p. 332, 1897. 

 Bostrichus moderatus Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), iii, p. 260, 1859. 

 (?) Bostrichus exiguus Walker, loc. cit. 



Upolu : Apia, ii.1925, 1 example. 



Found throughout the warmer parts of the world, occasionally in Europe 

 and even in Britain, but introduced with timber, grain, etc., and not established. 

 The last two names quoted above are additional to the synonymy given by 

 Lesne. 



45. Xylothrips religiosus Boisduval. 



Voy. Astroh, p. 460, 1835 ; Lesne, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxix, p. 624, ff. 32, 473, and 475- 



477, 1901. 



Upolu : Apia, throughout the year, by almost all collectors ; Malololelei, 

 1 example. 



Tutuila : Fagasa (Swezey and Wilder) ; Leone Road (Judd). 



Widely distributed in Melanesia and Polynesia, as well as in Northern 

 Australia and Hawaii. Lives in the Bread-fruit tree (Artocarpus incisa) and in 

 Hibiscus tiliacea, and is also destructive to worked woods of various kinds 

 (Fairmaire). 



* A useful revision of this family by P. Lesne appeared in the Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1896-1909. 



