HETEROMERA, MALACODERMATA, ETC. 



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ginate in front, the clypeal suture straight in the middle. Eyes very small, 

 scarcely visible from above. Antennae moderately slender, reaching a little 

 beyond the base of the thorax, 3rd joint elongate, 4th to 6th joints decreasing 

 a little in length, but even in $ not transverse, the last four forming a loose 



Text-fig. 1. — Apteromerus convexus Fairmaire. Text-fig. 2. — Menimus samoensis, sp. n. 



club, with 8th and 9th slightly transverse in elongate in Thorax feebly 

 and sparsely punctate, the base bordered throughout, with an impressed line 

 of closely placed but ill denned punctures within the border ; lateral margins 

 narrow in front, becoming wider behind. Elytra suboval, the striae slightly 

 impressed and closely, and rather coarsely punctate, striae and punctures 

 becoming obsolete behind ; intervals with a single row of widely spaced 

 punctures. Prosternum depressed behind coxae, but its apex again sharply 

 raised. 



Length : 3 mm. 



Upolu : Malololelei, 2000 ft., 4 examples. 

 (Paratype in Bishop Museum, Honolulu.) 



Allied to M. blairi Gebien {Phil. Journ. Sci., p. Ill, 1925), but much darker, 

 with more slender antennae, and elytral striae more closely punctate. 



