74 INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



7. Tagalus swalei, sp. n. (Text-fig. 3). 



Elongate oval, flavous, under side and limbs brownish. Head strongly 

 transverse, sunk to the eyes in the prothorax, widely rounded before the eyes, 



the continuity of the curve not broken by the 

 small, semicircular clypeus, labrum prominent, 

 almost covering the jaws. Antennae short, 

 not extending to the middle of the thorax, 

 first two joints thicker than the following 

 joints, 2nd joint longer than the third, the 

 latter a little longer than wide, 4th to 7th 

 almost moniliform, 8th to 10th successively 

 wider and strongly transverse, the 10th and 

 11th forming a strong club. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, arcuately narrowed from base to apex, 

 base arcuately projecting, indistinctly mar- 

 ginate, sides strongly bordered, anterior mar- 

 gin not bordered ; disc not very strongly 

 convex transversely, almost flat longitudi- 

 Text-fig. 3.— Tagalus swalei, sp. n, nally, coarsely, rather closely but irregularly 



punctured, and with slight, ill-defined, irregular 

 depressions almost as though a little shrivelled in drying. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra short, very convex at sides and behind, so as to overhang the lateral 

 margins ; striae deep, rather strongly punctate, nearly as wide as intervals, 

 becoming obsolescent near apex ; no scutellar stria present ; intervals convex 

 and even, except 9th which is strongly expanded above the metasternum 

 owing to the sinuosity of the lateral margin. Tibiae carinate externally, finely 

 denticulate and expanded towards apex to form a sharp apical tooth. 

 Long : 3 mm. 



Samoa (Dr. H. Swale). Two specimens without further data. 



It is possible that a new genus may be required for this insect, which differs 

 from Tagalus cavifrons Fairm. (the only species of Tagalus known to me) in 

 its less parallel form, with the thorax scarcely margined at the base and not 

 impressed in front. 



