INSECTS OF SAMOA 



Part IV. Fasc. 3 



THROSCID AE 

 By K. G. Blair, B.Sc. 



(With 1 Text-figure.) 



1. Drapetes samoensis, sp. n. 



Elongate elliptical, black, nitid, rather sparsely punctate and setose. 



Head rather narrower than anterior margin of prothorax ; antennae with 

 basal joint elongate, curved, testaceous ; second and third joints small ; fourth 

 to tenth joints strongly produced on inner side ; 

 last joint subpyriform. Thorax slightly wider 

 than long, widest at base, thence somewhat 

 sinuately narrowed to apex ; anterior angles 

 rounded, deflexed, moderately prominent, tinged 

 with flavous in some examples ; posterior angles 

 not carinate, acute, backwardly projecting, closely 

 applied to shoulders of elytra, lateral margin 

 concealed from above by lateral convexity of 

 disc ; base biemarginate with a smaller median 

 emargination before scutellum ; disc strongly 

 but sparsely punctured anteriorly, basal quarter 

 slightly depressed and more finely and closely 

 punctured, leaving a narrow median elevated 

 area devoid of punctures ; each puncture giving 

 rise to a long, curved, cinereous hair, these hairs 



directed towards middle line on anterior portion of disc, directed obliquely 

 forwards and inwards on inner part of basal depressed area, and forwards and 

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Text-fig. 1.- 



-Drapetes samoensis 

 sp. n. 



