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thorax about as broad as long, gray-black; 
anterior margin slightly fulvous, strongly 
punctured, covered with short golden scale- 
like hairs, with side feebly rounded. Scutellum 
gray-black, impunctate. Elytron gray-black, 
basal portion narrowly fulvous, subcylin - 
drical, rounded at apex, strongly punctate- 
striate, clothed with fine golden scales, with 
two transverse bands behind middle, formed 
of whitish scale-like patches. Underside ful- 
vous, with ventral segments of abdomen two 
to four about equal to each other and im- 
punctate. Legs fulvous. Length 2 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2432), Nan- 
darivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 10, 1938, Zimmer- 
man; 14 specimens. Mt. Victoria, 950 m., 
Tholo North, Sept. 13, 1938, Zimmerman, 
17 specimens. Lami Quarry, May 1951, 
Krauss, two specimens. 
Allied to D. ohscurata Bry., but smaller, not 
so dark, and with the transverse white patches 
on the elytron more numerous and differently 
placed. 
67. Demotina albonotata Bryant 
Demotina albonotata Bryant, 1931, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 10, 8: 364 (Loloti; 
type in Brit. Mus.). 
Black, nitid, clothed with very fine scales; 
antenna ferrugineous, flavous on first four 
segments; elytron with three tufts of silky 
white scales, on base, side, and apex, re- 
spectively. Head carinate medially, a white 
patch of scales near inner margin of eye; 
antenna slender in middle; prothorax coarsely 
rugose-punctate, with fine grayish scales; ely- 
tron elongate, tapering. Length 2.75 mm. 
viti levu: Loloti. Belt road 80 km. west 
of Suva, July 26, 1938, Zimmerman; Navai- 
Nasonga trail, Sept. 12, 1938, Zimmerman; 
Lami Quarry, near Suva, May 1951, Krauss. 
ovalau: Andubangda, July 18, 1938, Zim- 
merman. 
moala: Naroi, Aug. 24, 1938, Zimmerman. 
Thirteen specimens. 
68. Demotina evansi Bryant 
Demotina evansi Bryant, 1931, Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. Ser. 10, 8: 362, fig. 7 (Quilai; 
type in Brit. Mus.). 
Subcylindrical; gray-black, opaque, with a 
ferrugineous pattern on elytron, and clothed 
with adpressed short whitish scales which 
form longitudinal lines between elytral striae; 
appendages largely ferrugineous; ventral sur- 
faces fuscous; legs reddish, in part fuscous or 
ferrugineous. Head rugose; antenna with scape 
longer than second segment, both more swol- 
len than the four following; prothorax rugosely 
punctured, broadest behind middle; elytron 
oblong, strongly punctate-striate. Length 2 
mm. 
vanua levu: Twenty, Daku road, east of 
Lambasa, Oct. 6, 1955, on Glochidion , Com- 
mersonia , Macaranga , and Maesa, Oct. 6, 1955, 
Gressitt; one, Nakawanga, Oct. 8, 1955, 
Gressitt. 
taveuni: Quilai (type locality). 
hosts: Glochidion cordatum (Muell. Arg.) 
Seem.; Macaranga membranacea Muell. Arg.; 
Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr.; Maesa per- 
sicae folia A. Gray (?). 
69- Demotina obscurata Bryant 
Demotina obscurata Bryant, 1931, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 10, 8: 363, fig. 8 (Wai- 
yevo; type in Brit. Mus,). 
Gray-black, covered with short fine white 
scales; tibiae, tarsi, and six basal segments of 
antenna ferrugineous; elytron clothed with 
fine white scales and with five white patches 
of scales, three at middle and two at apex. 
Head with scales thicker and forming a white 
line near inner margin of eye; antenna slender, 
with scape a little longer than second segment 
and third one-half again as long as second; 
third to sixth long, slender and equal; pro- 
thorax finely punctured, about as broad as 
long, with scales longer than those of elytron; 
elytron oblong, tapering, strongly punctate- 
striate. Length 3 mm. 
