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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



determining the affinities of these very difficult species, the acquisition of a 

 perfect specimen of this sex is very desirable. 



In March 1924, Mr. E. H. Bryan, Jun., visited Enderbury Is. in the 

 Phoenix Group, which lies almost directly between Hawaii and Samoa, though 

 distant from the latter by considerably less than one-third of the distance 

 between these groups. Here he discovered a very remarkable new form of 

 Proterhinidae, which, in spite of the diversity exhibited by the Hawaiian series, 

 can hardly be referred to the genus Proterhinus itself. 



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