HETEROMERA, MALACODERMATA, ETC. 



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Tutuila : Leone Road, 7.ix.l923, 1 example (Swezey and Wilder). 



Rather larger than the foregoing species, and of a blackish green or blue, 

 the elytral intervals with a fairly regular median row of fine tubercles 

 or granules ; the eyes more approximate in front, being separated by a distance 

 about equal to the middle thickness of the third antennal joint (in A. hydro- 

 philoides the distance is about twice as great), and the anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi not thickened in the The British Museum series has nearly all been 

 received at different times from Fiji. 



Family : MELANDRYIDAE. 

 Csiki, Col. Cat. Serropalpidae (Junk, pars 77), 1924. 



Seidlitz, Naturgesch. Insect. Deutschl., Abt. i, Bd. v, 2. Halfte, p. 507, 1898. 



Bryanella, gen. n. 



Elongate, narrow, feebly arcuate along dorsal surface, head vertical, 

 scarcely visible from above ; eyes large, deeply emarginate for antennal inser- 

 tions ; maxillary palpi large, last joint elongate, cultriform, longer than the 

 rest together, the two penultimate joints about equal, almost equilaterally 

 triangular, slightly wider than the terminal joint ; antennae long, extending 

 to penultimate ventral segment, 2nd joint very short, remaining joints elongate, 

 subequal. Thorax about as long as wide, arcuate in front, bisinuate behind, the 

 sides subparallel for the greater part of their length, arcuately narrowed in 

 front, lateral carina present only on basal half ; prosternum separated by a 

 distinct suture from the pleurae ; anterior coxae contiguous behind, their 

 cavities widely open ; scutellum transverse, truncate behind ; elytra, except 

 for a well-marked sutural stria, non-striate, densely and evenly punctate. 

 Abdomen marginate at sides, the first segment much longer at the sides than 

 behind the widest part of the coxae, at its shortest but little longer than the 

 second segment, 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments successively a little longer, their 

 anterior and posterior margins arcuate, subparallel ; terminal segment triangular, 

 shorter than the preceding. Anterior tibiae stout, not much longer than the 

 first tarsal joint, penultimate joint broad and bilobed ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae slender, with 6 or 7 oblique but unequal ridges on the outer 

 side of each, tibial spurs unequal, serrulate on each side beneath, the longer 

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