CHR YSOMELID AE . 



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belong to the present species, but in default of further material the question 

 cannot be definitely settled. 



This species also occurs at Cuvu, Fiji Islands, whence there are three 

 examples in the British Museum (lO.x.1919, W. Greenwood). 



Type in the British Museum ; paratypes in the Bishop Museum. 



Described from thirty-eight examples. 



Halticinae. 



Nesohaltica, gen. nov. 



Body oblong with apex of elytra rounded. Head broad, vertex delimited 

 from interocular space by a deeply impressed transverse line ; raised areas in 

 interocular space not strongly developed. Antennae eleven-segmented, with 

 two basal and five apical segments thickened. Eyes convex, but not very 

 strongly so and nowhere emarginate. Prothorax broader than long, with 

 rounded sides, each corner with a pore bearing a fine seta ; anterior pores situated 

 somewhat behind anterior angles so that latter appear truncate. Elytra con- 

 fusedly punctate. Under side : anterior coxal cavities open behind ; intercoxal 

 process of prosternum broad, concave, with its surface rough. Hind femur 

 strongly dilated ; hind tibia with upper surface flat, not sulcate, and with short 

 spine near apex beneath tarsus ; latter not more than half as long as tibia, first 

 segment not longer than following segments together. Claws divaricate. 



Genotype : Nesohaltica nigra Maulik. 



Range : Samoa. 



14. Nesohaltica nigra, sp. nov. (Text-fig. 12). 



General colour black tinged with blue, in some examples the black much 

 diluted by pitch-brown ; tibiae and tarsi more pitch-brown ; five basal seg- 

 ments of antennae yellow-brown, remainder blackish or pitchy. 



Head with vertex impunctate ; in interocular space near inner margin of 

 each eye a round depressed spot ; a longitudinally impressed line dividing the 

 moderately raised frontal areas. Antennae extending a little beyond middle 

 of elytra ; first segment long and club-shaped ; second shorter, also club-shaped, 

 about equal to third in length ; third, fourth and fifth segments more slender, 

 about equal to each other in length ; sixth and seventh slightly thicker, equal 



