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41. Vitibia bryanti Gressitt, new name 
Fig. 1 6a 
Vitibia vitiensis Bryant, 1945 (nec Nodostoma 
vitiensis Bryant, 1942), Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist. Ser. 11, 12: 424, fig. 7 (Fiji; type in 
Brit. Mus.). 
Reddish ochraceous, paler on antenna, legs 
and abdomen. Head impunctate except on 
frons and middle of vertex; prothorax nearly 
impunctate, distinctly rounded at side; elytron 
with very short basal rows of punctures and 
only sutural and marginal row continuing to 
apex. Length 2. 9-3. 3 mm. 
viti levu: Tholo-i-suva, Aug., Mt. Vic- 
toria (type loc.), Sept. 1938, Zimmerman, 
nine specimens, at 150-1200 m.; also Lever. 
Host: Agapetes vitiensis leaf, at 1300 m.; 
Lever. 
42. Vitibia testacea Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 16b 
Male: Ochraceous, subhyaline; slightly 
dull on parts of head and antenna. Ventral 
surfaces and appendages with sparse pale 
hairs. 
Head seven-eighths as broad as prothorax, 
not quite as wide as deep, deeply punctured 
in middle; occiput feebly grooved anteriorly, 
indistinctly punctured. Antenna five-sixths as 
long as body, rather slender; scape one-fourth 
longer than second segment; third slightly 
longer than second; fourth longer than third, 
subequal to fifth; sixth slightly shorter; sev- 
enth to last longer, subequal. Prothorax seven- 
eighths as long as broad, more than five- 
eighths as broad as elytra, subevenly rounded 
at side, hardly narrower at apex than at base; 
disc feebly convex on central portion, with 
irregularly arranged punctures of varying 
sizes, mostly fairly strong, but smaller than 
interspaces, about eight in an approximate 
median line. Scutellum narrow, rounded-sub- 
acute apically. Elytron barely more than twice 
as long as prothorax, subparallel in basal two- 
thirds; disc convex, with a subbasal swelling, 
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Fig. 16 . a , Vitibia bryanti Gressitt, n. n., aedeagus; 
b, Vitibia testacea Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus; c, Vitibia 
virida Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus. 
incompletely punctured in 11 rows at middle, 
the punctures varying in size from larger to 
much smaller than interspaces, and disappear- 
ing in apical third. Ventral surfaces impunctate 
on metasternum, finely punctured on abdo- 
men. Length 2.8 mm.; breadth 1.3 mm. 
Paratypes: Length 2. 6-3. 3 mm.; breadth 
1. 2-1.4 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2418), 
Nandarivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 6, 1938, Zimmer- 
man. Two paratopotypes, Sept. 10, 1938, 
Zimmerman. Another, Mt. Victoria, 900 m., 
Sept. 16, 1938, Zimmerman, has the pro- 
thorax shorter and more coarsely punctured. 
ovalau: One, Andubangda, 400 m., July 
15, 1938, Zimmerman. 
Differs from V. bryanti Gressitt in being 
smaller, narrower, with the prothorax more 
rounded at side, less narrowed anteriorly, and 
more heavily punctured, and the elytron paler 
and a little more heavily punctured. 
43. Vitibia virida Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 16c 
Male: Metallic green above, tinged in part 
with pitchy reddish on head and humerus; 
ventral surfaces pitchy on hind thorax, be- 
coming testaceous towards end of abdomen; 
antenna dull reddish; legs testaceous with 
