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disc pitchy. Head punctured throughout, 
grooved on occiput; pronotum moderately 
punctured, transverse; elytron deeply and reg- 
ularly punctured. Length 4. 5-5. 7 mm. 
viti LEVU: Belt road west of Suva, July, 
Lami Quarry, near Suva, Aug., Mt. Korom- 
bamba, Aug., Nandarivatu, Sept. 1938, Zim- 
merman; Lami Quarry, Mar., May 1951, 
Krauss. Twelve specimens. 
VANUA LEVU: Lambasa (type locality). 
20. Rhyparida trapezicollis Fairmaire 
Fig. 8b 
Rhyparida trapezicollis Fairmaire, 1879, Le 
Naturaliste 1: 75 (Fiji); 1882, Soc. Ent. de 
France, Ann. Ser. 6, 1: 484 (Ovalau; type in 
Paris Mus.). 
Shiny black; reddish on antenna, tarsi, and 
sometimes elytron; palpi testaceous. Body 
fairly glabrous, except on antenna and legs. 
Head wrinkled and punctured; pronotum very 
sparsely and feebly punctured; elytron seriate- 
punctuate, but with the punctures in part very 
widely spaced, and mostly disappearing in 
apical third. Length 4. 3-4. 5 mm. 
viti levu: Belt road, 60-75 km. west of 
Suva, July 1938, Cooke and Zimmerman; 
Tholo-i-suva, July, ridge west of Nandari- 
vatu, Sept. 1938, Zimmerman; Bulu, near 
Suva, Apr., Vunindawa, May 1941, Krauss. 
ovalau: Near Vuma, July 1938, Kondo; 
Thawathi, July 1938, Zimmerman. 
vanua levu: Nakawanga, and between 
Navakuru and Nakawanga, on Dillenia sp., 
and between Nakawanga and Mbangata, Oct. 
7-9, 1955, Gressitt. 
HOST: Dillenia biflora (A. Gray) Martelli. 
21. Rhyparida oblonga Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 8c, d 
Elongate, more or less piceous, head 
marked with fulvous near eye and clypeus, 
rugosely punctured, prothorax transverse, 
with anterior margin narrowly fulvous, not 
closely punctured, elytron piceous margined 
with fulvous. 
Head with a triangular piceous patch at the 
base, and transversely piceous between the 
insertion of antenna, and narrowly fulvous 
near eye and clypeus, rugosely punctured. 
Antenna fulvous, long and slender, extending 
beyond middle of elytron, the two basal seg- 
ments more dilated, first longer than second, 
third long and slender, about equal to first 
two together, fourth slightly longer than 
third, remainder all about equal. Prothorax 
transverse, widest behind the middle, con- 
tracted in front, strongly but not closely 
punctured, piceous, with anterior margin ful- 
vous. Scutellum fulvous, impunctate, rounded 
at apex. Elytron elongate, wider at base than 
prothorax, a short depression below base; 
piceous, slightly metallic, with base and side 
margins narrowly fulvous, strongly punctate- 
striate. Legs fulvous, slightly darker at apex 
of tibiae, and middle of femora, tibiae pube- 
scent, intermediate and posterior tibiae emar- 
ginate at apex. Ventral surfaces more or less 
piceous, coxae fulvous, and apical ventral 
segments of abdomen tinged with fulvous. 
Length 6-7 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2405) Vatu- 
there, 800 m., Sept. 1938, under bark, Zim- 
merman; twelve paratopotypes, same data; 
one, Nandarivatu, Sept. 1938, Zimmerman. 
One taken under bark of Agathis sp. (kauri 
pine). 
Differs from R. dispar Bryant in being 
larger, darker, with dorsum more deeply and 
closely punctured. 
22. Rhyparida pjiensis Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 9 
Female: Reddish castaneous, ochraceous 
beneath and on antenna; pronotum with some 
small apparent blackish (transparent) spots. 
Antenna and legs with some short and some 
long oblique goldish hairs; ventral surfaces 
nearly glabrous. 
Head distinctly punctured; frons subtri- 
angular; vertex depressed; occiput feebly 
grooved. Antenna nearly three-fourths as long 
as body, slender; second segment two-thirds 
