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lower, in having the head shorter and broader, 
the prothorax subrectangular, and the aedea- 
gus much more slender and attenuated 
apically. 
60. Parademotina aureotincta Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 23 a, b 
Black to pitchy black, paler on elytral base, 
clothed above with irregular minute golden 
scales or scale-hairs, fairly dense on side of 
occiput, in certain lights forming a sinuous 
longitudinal stripe on side of pronotal disc, 
and on elytron forming about ten more or 
less distinct sublongitudinal small spots, 
roughly arranged in about three obliquely 
transverse bands, but also with scattered scales 
between the spots, and particularly on ex- 
treme base and suture near scutellum; front 
portion of head testaceous; antenna testa- 
ceous, becoming brown distally; ventral sur- 
faces reddish brown, with abdomen testa- 
ceous; legs testaceous, but pitchy on distal 
portions of femora and bases and apices of 
tibiae; abdomen with some very long erect 
hairs. 
Head as broad as prothorax, wider than 
deep, granulose and finely carinate medially 
on occiput; interantennal space about one- 
half as wide as interocular space. Antenna 
three-fourths as long as body; scape stouter 
than second segment, and one-half again as 
long; third to sixth slender; third and fourth 
subequal; fourth barely longer than fifth; 
sixth distinctly longer than fifth; seventh to 
tenth longer, subequal, last longest. Pro- 
thorax nine-tenths as long as broad, three- 
fourths as broad as elytra, moderately rounded 
at side; disc somewhat uneven, closely and 
somewhat deeply punctured, with roughly 20 
punctures in an approximate median line. 
Scutellum subtrapeziform, obtuse apically. Ely- 
tron twice as long as prothorax, gradually 
narrowed and rounded apically; disc dis- 
tinctly and uniformly punctured in regular 
rows, with two or three irregular extra rows 
at base near suture; most of punctures slightly 
Fig. 23. a, Parademotina aureotincta Gressitt, n. sp., 
type; b , Parademotina aureotincta , aedeagus. 
smaller than interspaces. Ventral surfaces mod- 
erately punctured on metasternum, feebly 
wrinkled and partly punctulate on abdominal 
sternites. Length 2.05 mm.; breadth 1.08 mm. 
Paratypes: Length 2.15-2.4 mm.; breadth 
1.1-1.25 mm. Some with golden spots very 
vague. 
viti LEVU: Holotype (Bishop 2429), near 
Suva, 100 m., Feb. 6, 1952, Gressitt. Four 
paratypes: Nandarivatu, 900-1100 m., Sept. 
3-6, 1938, Zimmerman; Lautoka Mts., Oct. 
23, 1921, Greenwood. 
Differs from Demotina obscurata Bryant in 
being smaller, more dorso-ventrally com- 
pressed, darker, with small golden spots, with 
the head broader and shallower, the prothorax 
more rectangular, and the elytron Jess heavily 
punctured. 
Genus demotina Baly 
Demotina Baly, 1863, Jour. Ent. 2 : 158 (type: 
D. bowringii Baly; China); 1867, Ent. Soc. 
London, Trans. (3) 4(2): 84; Chapuis, 
1874, Gen. Col. 10: 281; Lefevre, 1885, 
Soc. Sci. Liege, Mem. Ser. 2, 11: 80; 
Jacoby, 1908, Fauna of India 2: 427. 
