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Head deeply and somewhat closely punc- 
tured, flat on frons, slightly concave on an- 
terior portion of occiput, grooved above eye. 
Antenna two-thirds as long as body, most 
segments thickened preapically; scape a little 
longer than second; third more slender than 
second, subequal in length; fourth slender, 
subequal to third; fifth longer; sixth and 
following stouter. Prothorax as broad as ely- 
tral bases, rounded at side, not quite three- 
fourths as long as broad; disc evenly convex, 
deeply punctured, the punctures closer than 
interspaces. Scutellum narrowed and rounded, 
slightly punctured. Elytron fully twice as long 
as prothorax, broadest near middle, strongly 
convex, deeply, closely, and in part sub- 
seriately punctured. Ventral surfaces deeply 
punctured on metasternum, feebly punctured 
on abdomen. Length 2.14 mm.; breadth 1.28 
mm. 
Paratypes: Length 1.8-2 mm.; breadth 
1.1-1. 2 mm. 
central Fiji: Holotype, male (Bishop 
2454) Naroi, 300 m., Moala I., Aug. 24, 
1938, beating shrubs, Zimmerman. Three 
paratopotypes (Bishop, BM), same data. 
Differs from S. oconnori Gressitt in having 
whiter and longer hairs, particularly on the 
pronotum, and in having the pronotal inter- 
spaces fairly flat, not ridge-like, and with the 
punctures on mid-basal portion of pronotum 
in parallel longitudinal rows, instead of con- 
verging rows. 
49. Stygnobia metallica Bryant 
Stygnobia metallica Bryant, 1945, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 12: 425, fig. 8 
(Taveuni; type in Brit. Mus.). 
Dark metallic green, clothed with gray 
pubescence; antenna flavous with last two 
segments fuscous; fore and mid tibia flavous, 
each with basal third dark green; hind tibia 
flavous with basal half dark green. Head 
strongly but not closely punctured, frons al- 
most impunctate; antenna slender, reaching 
middle of elytron, with first segment slightly 
longer than second, third subequal to second, 
fourth longer than third; prothorax strongly 
and closely punctured, widest at base, and 
side contracted anteriorly from middle and 
feebly margined; scutellum subquadrate; ely- 
tron irregularly punctate-striate, side tapering 
from behind middle to apex; meso- and meta- 
sterna strongly punctured; abdominal ster- 
nites more finely punctured and pubescent. 
Length 2.35 mm. 
viti levu: Nandarivatu, 950 m., Sept., 
Navai Mill, Sept. 17, Tholo-i-suva, July 27, 
1938, Zimmerman. Lami Quarry, near Suva, 
May 1951, Krauss. 
ovalau : Andubangda, 300-450 m., Aug. 
18, 1938, Zimmerman. 
vanua levu: Nakawanga, 75 m., Oct. 8, 
1955, Gressitt. 
taveuni: Type locality (Crater Lake). 
50. Stygnobia elliptica Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 20a, b 
Bronzy with a purplish tinge above; scutel- 
lum greenish; venter pitchy tinged with pur- 
plish or bluish; appendages reddish ochrace- 
ous, slightly darker on apex of hind femur 
and somewhat pitchy brown on distal three- 
fifths of antenna. Dorsum distinctly clothed 
with curved, oblique golden hairs, appearing 
silvery in certain lights, particularly towards 
side. 
Head five-eighths as broad as prothorax, 
subvertical and almost plane in front, mod- 
erately punctured, more heavily so on occiput, 
nearly ridged on postocciput. Antenna three- 
fifths as long as body, subcylindrical, nar- 
rowed in third to sixth segments; second to 
seventh segments subequal in length. Pro- 
thorax five-sevenths as long as broad, prac- 
tically as broad as elytra, moderately narrowed 
and declivitous anteriorly at side; disc heavily, 
but not very deeply, punctured, the punctures 
for most part distinctly wider than interspaces. 
Scutellum subsquarish, obtuse behind. Elytron 
fully twice as long as prothorax, somewhat 
vertical at side, convex above, rather closely 
and irregularly punctured, the punctures form- 
