Chrysomelldae of Fiji — Bryant and Gressitt 
evenly rounded at side, not much narrower at 
apex than at base; disc convex, unevenly im- 
pressed with punctures of moderate size, 
coarser at side. Scute Hum narrow, rounded 
apical ly. Elytron broadly rounded, widest 
slightly anterior to middle; disc impressed 
with about 10 rows of moderate to strong 
punctures at middle, mostly one-half to one- 
third as wide as interspaces, but becoming 
suddenly minute behind basal three-fifths. 
Ventral surfaces punctured along anterior bor- 
der of metasternum ; abdomen minutely rugu- 
lose-punctate. Length 2.3 mm.; breadth 1.2 
mm. 
Female: More reddish, slightly tinged with 
pitchy along suture and outer margin of ely- 
tron, and on metasternum. Length 2.7 mm.; 
breadth 1.43 mm. 
Paratypes: Length 2. 2-2. 8 mm.; breadth 
1.14-1.5 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2411), 
Nandarivatu, 1100 m., beating, Sept. 3, 1938, 
Zimmerman; allotopotype, female (Bishop), 
Sept. 5. Eight paratypes (Bishop, BM, US): 
five paratopotypes, Sept. 6-10; two Navai- 
Nasonga trail, 800 m., Sept. 12, 1938, Zim- 
merman; one Navai Mill, Oct. 13, 1937, 
Valentine. 
Differs from V. greenwood/ (Bryant) in 
being paler, the punctures more regular to 
behind middle, the elytron not carinate in 
female, and in the aedeagus tapering grad- 
ually to an acute apex instead of narrowing 
somewhat suddenly before the blunt apex. 
33. Vitihia greenwoodi (Bryant), n. comb. 
Fig. 11c 
Nodostoma greenwoodi Bryant, 1945, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 12: 421, fig. 4 
(Lautoka; type in Brit. Mus.). 
Nitid; head fulvous; prothorax black with 
anterior margin broadly fulvous; elytron 
black with base fulvous; antenna and legs 
flavous. Head impunctate; antenna slender, 
with scape twice as long as second segment, 
and next three slender and subequal; pro- 
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thorax transverse, slightly rounded at side, 
strongly but not closely punctured; scutellum 
triangular; elytron impressed near humerus, 
strongly punctate-striate, the punctures rather 
wide apart, the intervals between the striae at 
side slightly costate. Length 2.5 mm. 
VITI levu: Lautoka (type locality). Twelve, 
Mavai-Nasonga trail, 800 m., Sept. 12, 1938, 
Zimmerman; two, Navai Mill, Nandarivatu, 
Oct. 13, 1937, Valentine. 
ovalau : One, Andubangda, 450 m., July 
15, 1938, Zimmerman. 
34. Vitihia striatipennis Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 12 a, b 
Flavous, seven apical segments of antenna 
fuscous; elytron with suture and side margin 
narrowly black, and from shoulder a faint 
fuscous stria parallel with side margin. 
Head flavous, impunctate, a short longi- 
tudinal impression between bases of anten- 
nae, eye large and prominent. Antenna long 
and slender, extending to middle of elytron; 
first segment longest and more dilated, about 
twice as long as second; seven apical seg- 
ments tinged with fuscous. Prothorax flavous, 
somewhat nitid, with large scattered punc- 
tures; side rounded; very slightly broader 
than long. Scutellum triangular, impunctate, 
fuscous. Elytron elongate, rounded at apex, 
flavous; suture and side margin narrowly 
black, and from shoulder a faint fuscous stria 
running parallel to side margin; punctate- 
striate, the punctures large and widely spaced. 
Legs flavous, middle and posterior pair emar- 
ginate at apex of tibia. Underside flavous, ven- 
tral segments of abdomen with scattered 
golden pubescence. Length 2.4 mm.; breadth 
l. 1 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2412), Nan- 
darivatu, Tholo North, Oct. 18, 1937, Valen- 
tine; two specimens. Nandarivatu, 1100 m., 
Sept. 6, and ridge west of Nandarivatu, 800 
m. , Sept. 11, 1938, Zimmerman; two spec- 
imens. One, Lautoka, Mar. 1955, Krauss. 
A very distinct species, its elongate shape 
somewhat allied to V. pallipes Bry. 
