Chrysomelidae of Fiji — BRYANT and GRESSITT 
Pitchy black, sometimes tinged with bluish; 
pronotum sometimes reddish; antenna testa- 
ceous; legs reddish. Head sparsely punctured, 
slightly striate on postocciput; antenna slen- 
der, third segment slightly longer than sec- 
ond, following subequal or slightly longer; 
prothorax rather strongly and evenly punc- 
tured, slightly striate near anterior border; 
elytron with punctures in regular rows, mostly 
much smaller than interspaces, one or two 
rows of outwardly directed pale hairs along 
suture in posterior two-thirds, and a small 
tuft of silvery hairs near apex. Length 3- 
3.5 mm. 
viti levu: Mt. Lautoka, Loloti; Nandari- 
vatu, 1050 m., Sept. 5, and Belt road west of 
Suva near Korolevu, July 26, 1938, Zimmer- 
man; Vuti Ndawa, Aug. 27, 1925, W. H. 
Ford. 
It is interesting to note that this species is 
extremely similar in dorsal appearance to a 
certain cryptorhynchine weevil occurring in 
Fiji. 
59- Stethotes setosa Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 22 d 
Dark reddish brown, slightly pitchy above, 
and on antenna beyond third segment; paler 
reddish brown on abdomen and first three 
antennal segments; legs reddish pitchy. Body 
moderately clothed above with fine suberect 
hairs, mostly dark on pronotum, as well as 
transversely oblique silvery hairs along suture, 
particularly in posterior half; ventral surfaces 
irregularly clothed with fine suberect hairs. 
Head slightly narrower than pro thorax, 
about as wide as deep, sparsely but distinctly 
punctured; frontoclypeus largely impunctate. 
Antenna slender, two- thirds as long as body; 
scape fully twice as long as second segment; 
third barely longer than second, shorter than 
fourth; fourth slightly longer than fifth; sixth 
shorter than fifth ; seventh and following much 
longer. Prothorax nearly as long as broad, 
barely four-fifths as broad as elytra, narrowed 
apically; disc strongly and somewhat closely 
punctured, with an impunctate area anterior 
45 
to center. Scutellum longer than broad, sub- 
rounded apically. Elytron more than twice as 
long as prothorax, strongly narrowed pos- 
teriorly, widest at end of basal third; disc with 
about 15 irregular rows of fine punctures, 
with one or two extra scutellar rows. Meta- 
sternum strongly punctured; abdomen finely 
punctured . Length 2 .9 mm . ; breadth 1.35 mm . 
Paratypes: Length 2.55 mm.; breadth 1.35 
mm. 
viti levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2424), 
Belt road, 25 km. west of Suva, July 29, 
1938, beating shrubs, Zimmerman; three 
paratypes, males, Lami Quarry, near Suva, 
May 1951, Krauss. 
Differs from S. rufipes Bryant in being more 
reddish, more shiny, less elongate, with the 
pronotum more strongly punctured and not 
striate-punctate, the elytron somewhat bluish, 
more finely and closely punctured, and with 
the dorsum clothed with fine hairs through- 
out. 
Tribe Adoxini 
Genus PARADEMOTINA Gressitt, 
new genus 
Head nearly as broad as prothcrax; eye 
prominent; occiput convex, finely carinate 
medially; antenna slender; prothorax slightly 
broader than long, very feebly margined at 
side, closely punctured, just over two-thirds 
as broad as elytra; elytron suboblong, sub- 
regularly lineate-punctate; middle and hind 
tibiae emarginate preapically on outer side; 
tarsal claws bifid, but with the accessory 
process near base, suggesting the appendicu- 
late condition. Dorsal surface clothed with 
minute scales on elytron and scale-like hairs 
on pronotum. Type: Parademctina aureotincta 
Gressitt, n. sp. 
The prothorax appears from some angles to 
be margined at side, and from other angles 
appears unmargined. There is a feeble irreg- 
ular ridge along the side, but not a true 
margin. 
The type of this genus differs from species 
of Demotina Baly in being narrower and shal- 
