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tate-striate, the rows sometimes confused and 
indistinct towards base. Prosternum with an- 
terior border a little swollen opposite mouth 
parts, somewhat dilated behind anterior coxa, 
obliquely truncate on each side and forming 
a pentagon of which the summit rests on 
mesosternum. Legs slender; tarsi rather long, 
three basal segments triangular, subequal, 
claw segment terminated by two slender 
claws, dilated and sinuous at base. 
KEY TO FIJIAN SPECIES OF LoxOpkuruS 
1. Length 2. 6-3. 6 mm.; center of pronotal 
disc and elytral base generally dark; 
elytron generally with outer margin or 
a postmedian band also dark 2 
Length 2. 0-2. 5 mm.; pronotum and 
elytron generally each uniformly pale 
or dark, or elytral disc dark with mar- 
gins pale, or vice versa 3 
2(1). Frons coarsely punctured, raised at 
side; pronotum almost impunctate; 
elytral punctures feeble vitiensis 
Frons slightly convex, moderately 
punctured; pronotum punctured; ely- 
tral punctures distinct .... rotumanus 
3(1). Elytral intervals not raised; pronotum 
and elytron generally each uniformly 
pale or dark 4 
Elytral intervals slightly costate; flav- 
ous, a median pronotal and sutural 
stripe of blackish costipennis 
4(3). Prothorax orange or yellowish; elytron 
entirely shiny blackish; abdomen black 
ruficollis 
Pronotum pale; elytron with disc large- 
ly dark and borders pale; abdomen 
yellow leveri 
12. Loxopleurus costipennis Bryant 
Loxopleurus costipennis Bryant, 1945, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 12: 421, fig. 2 
(Fiji; type in Brit. Mus.). 
Male: Flavous; last six antennal segments 
black and pubescent; pronotum with a me- 
dian black stripe, broadest at anterior margin, 
gradually narrowing to a point at base; scutel- 
lum black; elytron with basal margin and 
suture narrowly black; ventral surfaces with 
fine golden pubescence, apical segment paler. 
Head impunctate; eye strongly notched. 
Antenna reaching middle of elytron; scape 
longer than second and third segments com- 
bined. Prothorax with a very few fine scattered 
punctures and an oblique impression just be- 
hind middle of side. Elytron punctate-striate 
with intervals slightly costate. 
Female: Larger; black markings less well 
defined. Length: 2-2.5 mm. 
viti LEVU: Suva; type series taken by Lever. 
A male, Nandarivatu, Jan. 1955, Krauss; a 
male, Rewa, Feb. 1952, Gressitt. 
lau: One female, Loma Loma, Vanua 
Mbalavu I., Aug. 1938, Zimmerman, is ten- 
tatively referred here. 
13. Loxopleurus leveri Bryant 
Loxopleurus leveri Bryant, 1943, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 10: 567 (Fiji; type 
in Brit. Mus.). 
Female: Testaceous; distal antennal seg- 
ments brownish apically; elytral disc pitchy 
brown. Head feebly punctured on frons; eyes 
touching above. Antenna nearly three-fourths 
as long as body, slightly thickened distally. 
Prothorax nearly as broad as elytra, seven- 
ninths as long as broad, smooth and shiny; 
shallowly and obliquely grooved at side. Ely- 
tron feebly punctate-striate, with outer grooves 
more distinct. Ventral surfaces partly punc- 
tured at side. Length 2.65 mm. 
LAU: Mvana, Vanua Mbalavu, Aug. 1938, 
beating shrubs, Zimmerman. 
14. Loxopleurus ruficollis Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 5 
Black, the head, prothorax and legs rufous, 
prothorax nitid with a few scattered punc- 
