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INSECTS OP SAMOA. 



outwards near posterior angles. Scutellum rather large, subcircular, finely 

 and closely punctate, with pubescence sloping backwards. Elytra widest at 

 shoulders, gradually narrowed posteriorly, with the apices broadly rounded ; disc 

 punctured much as fore part of thorax, a regular row of backwardly directed 

 setae on either side of suture, leaving a narrow sutural space devoid of setae ; 

 remainder of pubescence directed obliquely backwards and outwards. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Upolu : Vailima, i., ix.1925 ; Malololelei, iv.1924 ; vii.1925 (6 examples). 



Allied to D.jansoni Bonv., of which the type locality is Batchian, though it 

 has also been found in Borneo, Singapore, and the Philippine Islands. The 

 latter species, however, has the antennae entirely black, the thorax more 

 sharply narrowed and more coarsely punctate, the punctures being larger at the 

 base than towards the apex, and the pubescence of both thorax and elytra 

 differently disposed. 



Text-fig. 1. Dra/pelRs samoensis, sp. n. 



