164 INSECTS OF SAMOA. ' 



4. Proscopus veitchi JorcL, 1924 (Text-figs. 2 and 3). 



Jordan, Nov. Zool., xxxi, p. 256, 1924. 



This species, of which the type was obtained in Fiji, does not seem to be 

 rare in Samoa. Its face (Text-fig. 2) is vertical, almost flat, bounded on each 

 side by a sharply marked carina, which ends dorsally at the tubercle of the 

 antennal groove. From above the proboscis is not visible (Text-fig. 3). 



Text-fig. 2. — Proscopus Text-fig. 3.- — Proscopus veitchi, 

 veitchi, head. head and pronotum. 



Upolu : Aleipata, Lalomanu, xi.1924, one $ ; 23.ix.1916, one $. Tutuila : 

 Leone Road, 19.ii.1924 (Bryan), one $; Amauli, 5, 6, 7.ix.l923 (Swezey and 

 Wilder), 6 2 ; 760-900 ft., iv., and 1070 ft., vi. (Kellers). 



5. Araecerus fasciculatus Deg., 1775. 



Originally an Oriental species, now distributed over nearly the whole of the 

 tropics and frequently found in stores in Europe. Does much damage to beans 

 of cocoa, coffee, etc. One of the largest species of this genus. Tibiae, or at 

 least the foretibia, spotted with brown on upper side ; club of antenna slender, 

 with its three segments strongly asymmetrical. 



Upolu : Apia, vi.1925, damaging stores of nutmeg. 



