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24. Rhyparida luteola Fairmaire 
Fig. 1C )a 
Rhyparida luteola Fairmaire, 1879, Le Natural- 
iste 1: 75 (Fiji; type in Paris Mus.); 1882 
Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. Ser. 6, 1: 434. 
Reddish brown, some vague pitchy lines 
on pronotum; elytron pitchy brown except 
for reddish base; dorsum with rather close 
golden brown hairs. Head rugose-punctate; 
pronotum densely punctured; elytron closely 
punctured. Length 4.4-6. 1 mm. 
viti LEVU: Belt road 32 km. west of Suva, 
July, Tholo-i-suva, July, Mt. Korombamba, 
Aug., ridge west of Nandarivatu, Sept. 1938, 
Zimmerman; Lami, Apr. 1951, Krauss, 28 
specimens. 
VANUA LEVU: Nakawanga, Oct. 8, 1955, 
Gressitt, five specimens, on Couthovia. 
HOST: Couthovia corynocarpa A. Gray. 
25. Rhyparida vermiculata Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 10 b 
Male: Dark castaneous brown, pitchy 
black on pronotum. Body glabrous above. 
Head fully four-fifths as broad as prothorax, 
as broad as deep, somewhat finely and closely 
punctured, distinctly striate on occiput. An- 
tenna fairly slender, four-fifths as long as body; 
scape a little longer than second segment; 
third a little longer than second, subequal to 
fifth and sixth, shorter than fourth; seventh 
and following barely longer than fourth. Pro- 
thorax a little broader than long, a little nar- 
rower than elytra, distinctly rounded at side; 
disc very closely vermiculate-punctate, the 
anterior portion for most part longitudinally 
striate-punctate. Scutellum a little longer than 
broad, rounded behind, with a pair of punc- 
tures. Elytron more than twice as long as 
prothorax, moderately narrowed posteriorly; 
disc with 11 regular rows of fairly deep punc- 
tures, and two extra scutellar rows; some of 
basal punctures separated by hardly more than 
equivalent of their diameters, but much 
smaller posteriorly. Metasternum very sparsely 
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Fig. 10. a, Rhyparida luteola , aedeagus; b, Rhyparida 
vermiculata Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus; c, Rhyparida 
kandavu Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus; <7, Rhyparida strigosa, 
aedeagus; e, Rhyparida bryani Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus. 
punctured; abdomen finely punctured. Length 
3.2 mm.; breadth 1.6 mm. 
lau: Holotype, male (Bishop 2408), Tuvu- 
tha I., northern Lau Group, Sept. 11, 1924, 
Bryan. 
Differs from R. dispar Bryant in being much 
smaller, with the pronotum flat and densely 
vermiculate. 
26. Rhyparida kandavu Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 10c 
Male: Pale castaneous brown with basal 
third of pronotum blackish; ventral surfaces 
reddish to pitchy; antenna pale in basal half, 
slightly pitchy in distal half. Pronotum finely 
pubescent; elytron apparently glabrous. 
Head seven-tenths as broad as prothorax, 
slightly deeper than wide, strongly swollen 
above, finely and not very closely punctured 
on frons, strigose-punctate on occiput. An- 
tenna two-thirds as long as body, moderately 
thickened distally; scape a little longer than 
second segment; third nearly as long as scape, 
slightly shorter than fourth; fifth as long as 
fourth, slightly longer than sixth; seventh and 
following subequal, each thickened distally 
and barely longer than fifth. Prothorax just 
over three-fourths as long as broad, nearly 
three-fourths as broad as elytra, distinctly 
rounded at side, slightly narrower at apex 
than at base, strongly rounded-convex at an- 
terior margin, obtusely convex at basal mar- 
gin; disc flattened in central portion which 
has narrow longitudinal punctures which are 
narrower than spaces between them; punc- 
tures on side of disc mostly rather close and 
