Chrysomelidae of Fiji (Coleoptera ) 1 
G. E. Bryant and J. L. Gressitt 2 
This report is based primarily on the 
extensive collection made by E. C Zimmer- 
man in 1938 as a member of the Bishop 
Museum’s Henry G. Lapham Fijian Expedi- 
tion. Additional material was taken by J. M. 
Valentine in 1937, N. L. H. Krauss in 1941, 
1950, 1951, and 1955, E. H. Bryan, Jr. in 
1924, and J. L. Gressitt in 1952 and 1955. 
A few other specimens were taken by Albert 
Koebele, J. F. Illingworth, H. S. Ladd, W. 
Greenwood, W. H. Ford, C. M. Cooke, Jr., 
Otto Degener, Yoshio Kondo, R. W. Paine, 
R. A. Lever, and B. A. O’Connor. A total of 
about 3,500 specimens from Fiji was available 
for study. 
Much of the older material was originally 
sent to the late Dr. S. Maulik, who found 
little time to devote to it before his death. 
The senior author then undertook the study 
at the request of E. C. Zimmerman, and 
identified much of the material, preparing 
descriptions of some new species and notes 
on others. The junior author was asked to go 
over the unidentified material and newer col- 
lections, and has added to the keys and de- 
scriptions. He has also made a special effort 
to obtain records with host-plant data during 
a visit to Vanua Levu in 1955. Because the 
work was largely done separately, the new 
species are individually credited to the de- 
1 This research was aided by a John Simon Guggen- 
heim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to the junior 
author, 1955-1956. Manuscript received December 30, 
1955. 
2 Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 
and Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, respectively. 
scribers. We are much indebted to Mr. Zim- 
merman for time spent in sorting the material, 
and in helping to compile the list of pre- 
viously recorded species. 
The host plants were kindly identified by 
A. C. Smith. Some host data and other infor- 
mation was supplied by B. A. O’Connor. The 
drawings of adults were made partly by the 
senior author, and partly by Dorothy Rain- 
water. The drawings of the genitalia were 
prepared by the junior author. 
All types (with one exception) are deposited 
in Bishop Museum (Bishop), with para- 
types in the British Museum of Natural 
History (BM). Some paratypes are also de- 
posited in the United States National Mu- 
seum (US), the Commonwealth Scientific and 
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in 
Canberra, and the California Academy of 
Sciences (CAS). 
There are two systems of romanization of 
Fijian place names. The long-used system in 
Fiji utilizes "c” for the "th” sound, and "q” 
or "g” for the "ng” sounds. Instead of the 
former system, the actual phonetic spellings 
are used in this paper. When the old spellings 
occur on specimen labels, they are inserted 
in the text in parentheses following the 
phonetic spellings. 
SPECIATION AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY 
This very interesting collection, a tribute to 
Mr. Zimmerman’s interest, has proven to be 
a most difficult one on which to report. 
