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a complete account of the distribution of each species as known to the author ; 

 many records from Samoa are included. 



The same author had previously published two lists of Tenebrionidae from 

 Samoa, viz. : 



1. Denkschr. K. AJcad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. 89, p. 689, 1914 (Bot. u. Zool. Ergebn. 

 Forschungsreise nach Samoa, 1905). Coll. by Dr. Eechinger. 



2. Arch. Naturg., Bd. 88, A. 10, p. 153, 1922. Coll. Dr. K. Friederichs. 



1. Mesomorphus villiger Blanchard. 

 Blanchard, Voy. Pole Sud, iv, p. 154, pi. 10, fig. 15, 1853 ; Gebien, Teneb. N. Guin., p. 229. 

 Upolu : Apia, 23.L1927, iii., iv., 23.v., and xii.1924. 



Previously received from Rev. S. J. Whitmee, 1876 ; and already twice 

 recorded from Samoa by Herr Gebien. 



This species, of which the type was originally obtained in New Guinea, is 

 widely distributed in the Melanesian groups, its range also extending to Australia, 

 the Hawaiian Is., through China to Japan, the Indo-Malay region, Madagascar 

 and tropical Africa. I have not seen examples from Tahiti or other of the 

 Polynesian groups. 



The species probably occurs throughout the year, as in New Guinea (Gebien). 



2. Bradymerus granaticollis Fairmaire. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxvii (ii), p. 23, 1883 ; Gebien, Teneb. N. Guin., p. 248. 



Upolu : Apia, 24.iv., v., vii., x., xii.1924 ; Malololelei, iv.1924 ; Samoa, 

 1920 (O'Connor), and vi.-ix.1916 (Swale). 



Described from a specimen from Duke of York Is., it occurs in New 

 Ireland, New Britain, Solomon Is., New Guinea, Dorey, and the Moluccas. 



3. Bradymerus amicorum Fairmaire. 



Rev. Zool. (2), I, p. 420, 1849 (Bolitophagus) ; Blanchard, Voy. Pole Sud, iv, p. 166, pi. 11, fig. 2, 

 1853. 



Upolu : Apia, 24.iv. ; Malololelei, iv.1924. 



Tonga; Vavau, Neiafu, 1 .iii. 1925 ; specimens also in British Museum from 

 the Fiji Is. and Tongatabu (type locality). 



Closely allied to the preceding, which it appears to replace in the Fiji Is. 



