50 
Fig. 12. a , Vitibia striatipennis Bryant, n. sp., adult; 
5, Vitibia striatipennis , aedeagus; Vitibia vitiensis, 
aedeagus. 
35. Vitibia vitiensis (Bryant), n. comb. 
Fig. 12c 
Nodostoma vitiensis Bryant, 1942, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 9: 512 (Taveuni, 
Suva; type in Brit. Mus.). 
PACIFIC SCIENCE, Voi. XI, January, 1957 
Fulvous; apical half each of last five an- 
tennal segments fuscous; elytron entirely ful- 
vous or with varying degrees of black mark- 
ings, which do not reach humerus or apex. 
Head impunctate; antenna with scape longer 
and more swollen than second segment, sec- 
ond to sixth slender and subequal, and seventh 
to last thicker and subequal; prothorax slightly 
transverse, rounded at side, with a few ir- 
regular punctures; scutellum triangular; elytron 
with basal half strongly but irregularly punc- 
tured in irregular striae, and apical half nearly 
impunctate; abdominal sternites finely punc- 
tured. Length 3 mm. 
viti LEVU: Suva. One, Tholo-i-suva, 150 
m., July 25, 1938, Zimmerman; one, Nayavu, 
Mar. 1951, Krauss. 
taveuni: (Type locality.) 
moala: July 13, 1924, Bryan. 
LAU: Vanua Mbalavu L, Sept. 23, 1924, 
Bryan; Mvava, Vanua Mbalavu, at seashore, 
Aug. 9, 1938, Zimmerman; Munia I., Aug. 
3, 1938, Zimmerman; Mothe I., Aug. 14-16, 
1924, Bryan. 
host: Gossypium (cotton). 
36. Vitibia melochiae Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 13*, b 
Male: Pale testaceous, slightly reddish be- 
hind eye and on mouth parts. Ventral surfaces 
and legs with sparse fine pale hairs. 
Head nine-tenths as broad as prothorax, 
about as wide as deep, moderately punctured 
in middle; occiput finely grooved anteriorly, 
nearly impunctate. Antenna slender, three- 
fourths as long as body; scape nearly one-half 
again as long as second segment, subequal to 
third, fourth, and fifth; sixth slightly longer; 
seventh to last subequal, each slightly longer 
than sixth. Prothorax nearly six-sevenths as 
long as broad, two-thirds as broad as elytra, 
subevenly rounded at side, narrower at apex 
than at base, widest slightly behind middle; 
disc subfmely and unevenly punctured, most 
of punctures about one-third as large as inter- 
spaces. Scutellum as long as broad, obtuse 
