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Robust; head short, with frons transverse; 
antenna fairly slender; prothorax short, sub- 
rectangular; elytra a little broader than pro- 
thorax. 
This genus is primarily Philippine. 
18. Lindinia glabrata Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 7 
Glabrous, rufous, with the exception of 
fuscous tibiae and eight apical antennal seg- 
ments; elytron very finely and feebly punc- 
tate-striate. 
Male: Head rufous and glabrous, a median 
longitudinal impression on vertex not ex- 
tending to the base. Antenna extending to 
middle of elytron, three basal segments ful- 
vous, the remainder fuscous, two basal seg- 
ments more dilated, the third long and slender, 
about equal to the first two; third to fifth 
about equal; sixth to eleventh slightly thick- 
ened and more pubescent. Prothorax rufous 
and glabrous, widest at base, the sides feebly 
rounded and contracted in front. Scutellum 
rufous, impunctate, rounded at the apex. 
Elytra rufous, glabrous, but very finely and 
feebly punctate-striate, wider than base of 
prothorax, the sides parallel and beyond the 
middle rounded to apex. Legs rufous with 
tibiae slightly fuscous, intermediate and pos- 
terior pair emarginate at apex. Underside 
rufous and glabrous, first ventral segment of 
abdomen longest, second to the fourth shorter 
and equal to each other. Length 6 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2404) Navai 
Mill, near Nandarivatu, Viti Levu, Fiji, Sept. 
17, 1938, 800 m., Zimmerman. One paratype, 
Nandarivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 5, 1938, Y. 
Kondo. 
Closely allied to L. tibialis Lef., but differs 
in the less closely punctate striae, and in not 
having the legs and mesosternum black. 
Genus rhyparida Baly 
Rhyparida Baly, 1861, Jour. Ent. 1: 286 (type: 
R. dimidata Baly; Australia). 
Marsaeus Clark, 1864, Jour. Ent. 2: 252 (type: 
Crypto cep halus didymus Fabr. ; Australia) . 
Fig. 7. Lindinia glahrata Bryant, n. sp. 
Head short, generally grooved on occiput; 
prothorax subquadrate, often trapeziform or 
rounded at side; elytra only slightly broader 
than prothorax, seriate or rarely irregularly 
punctured. Generally glabrous above, but 
some Fijian species are pubescent. The last 
four species treated below may require a new 
genus. 
This large genus is distributed in Mada- 
gascar, Mauritius, Ceylon, Indonesia, Philip- 
pines, and to the Carolines, Samoa, and 
Australia, but appears to be centered in the 
Papuan subregion. 
KEY TO FIJIAN species of Rhyparida 
1. Length of body more than 5 mm. ... 2 
Length of body less than 4 mm.; ely- 
tron regularly punctured .7 
2(1). Dorsum glabrous; elytron more or less 
seriately punctured 3 
Dorsum pubescent; elytron closely and 
irregularly punctured luteola 
3(2). Pronotum rather densely punctured; 
elytron with puncture-rows somewhat 
irregular, very numerous and close, or 
punctures very large 4 
