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with a little notch behind ; slightly enlarged to the posterior 
third, then sinuously constricted, ending in a trispinous 
tail each side of the suture, the external spine of each elytron 
longer and more acute than the median one but not reaching 
the level of the median one. Disk shining, punctate-striate, 
the intervals convex and punctate. Each elytron with seven 
large, finely punctate, and inconspicuously pubescent areas, 
arranged as follows : one in the humeral depression ; another 
one, large and rounded, at the middle of the length of the 
elytra, nearer the margin than the suture; a third one 
marginal, elongate, in the posterior third; and a juxta- 
sutural one at the posterior fifth ; the other areas less marked, 
disposed between the humeral and the median areas. 
Anterior margin of the prosternum angulately prominent 
on each side, with a little triangular notch at the middle ; the 
prosternal process densely punctate, pubescent, not mar- 
gined. Prothoracic episterna strongly and rather densely 
punctate on the outer sides, smooth and sparsely punctate 
on the inner sides. Abdominal segments strongly but 
sparsely punctate, the anterior angles finely and densely 
punctate and inconspicuously pubescent. The last sternite 
rounded at apex, with an acute spine on each side. Aedeagus 
narrow, its sides furnished with some little, erect, spaced 
denticles. Parameres angulate at tip. 
The 9 is generally larger than the * ; the last sternite is 
the same at apex; the prosternal process is strongly and 
sparsely punctate, not pubescent. 
Six specimens of this new species (type <*, M. C. Z. no. 
22,509) were captured by Dr. W. M. Mann at Vanua Ava, 
Fiji Islands; a paratype stands in my own collection at the 
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris, and another 
in the British Museum. 
Genus N osotrinchus Obb. 
Nosotrinchus solomonensis n. sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 4) 
Length : 12 mm. ; breadth : 4 mm. — ( ? $ ) . Elongate, at- 
tenuate posteriorly, the apex of the elytra not forming a tail, 
as in N. coeruleipennis Fairm. ; blue, elytra olive green with 
a longitudinal purple band, this band very narrow near 
the scutellum, enlarged behind and covering the apical third 
