Chrysomelidae of Fiji — Bryant and Gressitt 
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Fig. 4. Pycnophthalma apicale Bryant, n. sp. 
narrowly flavous, clothed with short golden 
pubescence, except side margin and apical 
half of suture, which show short white silky 
pubescence, widest at base and slightly nar- 
rowed to apex. Legs flavous. Underside pitch 
black, clothed with very fine pubescence, with 
apical ventral segment flavous. Smaller than 
the female. Length 2-2.5 mm.; breadth 1.2- 
1.4 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2400), 
Nandarivatu, Viti Levu, 900-1000 m., Fiji, 
Sept. 3-6, 1938, Zimmerman; allotopotype, 
female and four paratopotypes, three males 
and one female, same data. One male para- 
type, Navai-Nasonga trail, west slope, 750- 
900 m., Sept. 12, 1938, Zimmerman; one 
female paratype, Mt. Victoria, west slope, 
Tholo North, 900-1200 m., Sept. 13, 1938, 
Zimmerman. 
Allied to P. cuprea Bryant, but differs in the 
color and arrangement of the pubescence on 
the elytron, and in having the apex of the 
elytron flavous. 
11. Pycnophthalma leveri Bryant 
Pycnophthalma leveri Bryant, 1942, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 9: 509 (Fiji; type in 
Brit. Mus.). 
Dorsum bronzy; venter black; pronotum 
clothed with fine pubescence; elytron with 
small grayish silvery scales. Head impunctate; 
antenna reaching slightly beyond base of ely- 
tron; scape nearly twice as long as pedicel; 
thi‘rd to fifth segments more slender, each 
longer than second and about equal to each 
other, the terminal segments slightly thick- 
ened. Pronotum bronzy with very fine punc- 
tures and fine scattered pubescence; front 
margin deeply impressed; side feebly mar- 
gined. Scute Hum oblong and very small. Ely- 
tron bronzy, clothed with very small grayish 
silvery scales, very finely punctate-striate, the 
three striae near side margin deeper. Legs with 
femora black, tibiae and tarsi flavous. Length 
2 mm. 
viti levu: Nandarivatu (type series). 
Tribe Cryptocephalini 
Genus loxopleurus Suffrian 
Loxopleurus Suffrian, 1859, Linn. Ent. 13: 125; 
Chapuis, 1874, Gen. Col. 10: 186. 
Head of medium size, engaged in pro- 
thorax; labrum large, free and almost entire; 
eye rather large, canthus triangular, measuring 
half the breadth of an eye. Antenna filiform, 
very slightly compressed towards the apex, 
shorter than the body in both sexes, extending 
half the length of body in female. Prothorax 
contracted in front, produced towards anterior 
angles, somewhat convex on disc, and slightly 
produced in middle of anterior border, side 
margin almost straight, entire, a little raised, 
posterior margin with a median lobe, two 
strong impressions near the scutellum, diverg- 
ing towards anterior angles. Scutellum cb- 
long, apex somewhat raised, an impression at 
base. Elytron elongate, subcylindrical, slightly 
broadening behind, epipleural lobes not 
prominent, shoulders well marked, with a 
lateral compression of the body, surface punc- 
