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Scutellum completely hidden; dorsum 
reddish coppery with golden bronzy 
pubescence, feebly depressed between 
prothorax and elytra cuprea 
2(1). Pronotum not deeply impressed near 
anterior margin except at side, dis- 
tinctly depressed basally in lateral out- 
line; dorsum pitchy reddish with vari- 
colored scales; femora pale 3 
Pronotum deeply impressed near an- 
terior margin; elytra bronzy black with 
grayish silvery scales; femora black. . 
leveri 
3(2). Body outline somewhat pentagonal; 
elytral apex pale reddish; base of pro- 
thorax distinctly depressed on each 
side of median process apicale 
Body somewhat regularly oval in out- 
line; elytral apex not very pale; base 
of pro thorax feebly depressed on each 
side of median process . . aureopilosus 
8. Pycnophthalma cuprea Bryant 
Pycnophthalma cuprea Bryant, 1942, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 9: 508 (Fiji). 
Male: Dark bronzy pitchy, more reddish 
beneath; antenna testaceous basally, brownish 
distally; legs testaceous. Body clothed above 
with short oblique bronzy golden hairs, turn- 
ing to silvery on side and apex of elytron. 
Head with frons raised and micropunctulate. 
Antenna barely over one-half as long as body; 
scape as long as next two segments com- 
bined; last six segments each about as broad 
as long. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as 
long, obtusely rounded anteriorly; disc sub- 
closely and distinctly punctured. Scutellum 
hidden. Elytron with regular rows of close 
longitudinal punctures, with interspaces some- 
what closely punctured. Ventral surfaces un- 
evenly punctured. Length 1.8 mm. 
Female: Antenna less than one-half as long 
as body. Length 2 mm. 
viti levu: Mt. Victoria, 1000 m., Tholo 
North, Sept. 1938, Zimmerman, 28 specimens. 
9. Pycnophthalma aureopilosa 
(Bryant), n. comb. 
? Coenohius aureopilosus Bryant, 1925, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 9, 15: 591 (Fiji; type in 
Brit. Mus.). 
Pitchy brown, with dull golden, varying to 
silvery pubescence, above. 
Head with eyes nearly touching; frons finely 
rugose-punctate, somewhat raised in middle. 
Antenna more than one-half as long as body 
in male, less than one-half as long in female; 
last six segments somewhat longer than 
broad. Prothorax fully two-thirds as long as 
broad, finely and closely punctured, distinctly 
depressed basally, and obliquely from base 
along side. Scutellum elliptical, a little longer 
than broad, smooth, concave basally. Elytron 
with distinct rows of elongate punctures, and 
fine punctures between rows. Ventral surfaces 
in part sparsely punctured. Length 1.9 mm. 
viti levu: Nandarivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 
1938, Zimmerman (two), and Navai-Nasonga 
trail, 900 m., Sept. 1938, Zimmerman (one). 
10. Pycnophthalma apicale Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 4 
Upperside metallic bronze-green, with apex 
of elytron narrowly flavous, clothed with 
short golden pubescence; elytron with side 
margin and apical half of suture showing 
white silky pubescence. Legs and antenna 
flavous. 
Male: Head with median portion clothed 
with short whitish pubescence, clypeus flav- 
ous, eyes large, touching at base. Antenna 
extending just beyond the base of elytra, 
flavous, first segment more than twice as long 
as second, third more slender and longer than 
second, the remainder about equal, six apical 
segments slightly thickened. Prothorax bronze- 
green, with dense short golden pubescence, 
transverse, widest at base, the base produced 
in a lobe opposite scutellum, sides rounded 
and contracted in front. Scutellum oblong very 
narrow. Elytron metallic bronze-green, apex 
