ANTHRIBIDAE. 



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broad, conical, club broad, 9th not quite symmetrical, triangular, nearly half as 

 long again as broad, 10th broader than long, 11th as long and as broad as 9th, 

 but ovate. 



Pronotum marmorated with grey, conical, one-eighth broader than long, 

 with two dorsal depressions from near apex to carina, united behind, sides like- 

 wise flattened, particularly in posterior half ; carina concave in middle, convex 

 halfway to side, behind it on each side a yellowish spot bounded dorsally by a 

 blackish spot. 



Elytra almost one-half longer than broad, parallel from base to middle and 

 then rounded, dorsally depressed to fifth interspace, at base between sutural 

 interspace and fifth a large blackish conical elevation, another, smaller, elevation 

 at the beginning of apical declivity, more lateral than the basal hump, dorsally 

 not much raised above the level of interspace five ; depressed dorsal area grey, 

 with a few brown spots, sides brown and rather profusely spotted with grey, 

 area between posterior tubercles brown, bearing a few grey spots, apical 

 declivity grey marbled with brown, basal two-thirds of suture slightly yellowish. 

 Pygidium a little broader than long, gradually narrowing, sides straight, apex 

 truncate, slightly sinuate in middle, the angles rounded off. 



Middle of sterna sparingly grey, sides of pronotum marbled with grey, 

 sides of meso- and metasterna densely pubescent, yellowish, a brown lateral 

 smear at base of metepisternum and another near its apex. Abdomen densely 

 pubescent, grey, with a row of brown spots in middle of side, and an additional 

 lateral spot on segments 4 and 5. Legs blackish, with sparse grey pubescence, 

 femora and upper side of tibiae with ill-defined blackish markings, tarsi 

 unicolorous, foretarsus about one-fourth shorter than foretibia. 



Length : (excl. of head) 7 mm. 



Upolu : Apia, 29.iii.1924, one 



3. Eucorynus stevensi Pasc, 1859. 



Widely distributed in the Papuan subregion. Not formerly known to me 

 from anywhere east of New Guinea. 



Upolu: Apia, 18, 24.iv.1924, two ; Tafua Volcano, 19.iv. (Swale), 

 one pair. 



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