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flavous pattern; suture narrowly flavous, the 
median portion forming a gray-black pattern 
running into the flavous margin; punctate- 
striate, clothed with very short pubescence. 
Legs fulvous. Underside with the meso- and 
metasternum fuscous; ventral segments of the 
abdomen fulvous. Length 2.5 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2433), Nan- 
darivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 6, 1938, Zimmerman. 
A very distinct species on account of the 
irregular pattern on the elytra. 
72. Demotina striata Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 27 
Brown; head, prothorax, underside, and 
legs darker than elytron, clothed with ad- 
pressed scales; elytron paler with a longi- 
tudinal dark stripe between suture and side 
margin. 
Head dark brown clothed with short silvery 
pubescence. Antenna extending just beyond 
base of elytron; fulvous, with five apical seg- 
ments slightly darker. Prothorax dark brown 
clothed with fine adpressed scales, transverse, 
widest just before base, side rounded and 
contracted in front. Scutellum dark brown, sub- 
quadrate, impunctate. Elytron pale brown 
clothed with ashy adpressed scales, with a lon- 
gitudinal dark stripe between suture and side 
margin. Length 4 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2434), Nan- 
darivatu, Sept. 2, 1938, Zimmerman. Six para- 
topotypes, five, same data as type, one, Jan. 
1955, Krauss. Also, four not designated para- 
types: Belt road, 14 km. west of Suva, July 
1938, Zimmerman; Lami Quarry, July 1938, 
Zimmerman, and May 1951, Krauss. 
ovalau: Andubangda, July 18, 1938, Zim- 
merman, one specimen; near Levuka, July 10, 
1938, Zimmerman, one specimen. 
A very distinct species on account of the 
well marked longitudinal dark stripe on the 
elytron. 
73. Demotina pubescens Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 28 
Female: Reddish brown, in part darker, 
largely clothed above with pale golden-buff 
to silvery buff pubescence, consisting largely 
of short suberect hairs, as well as minute hair- 
scales: head reddish, pitchy on each side of 
occiput; antenna reddish, duller in distal half; 
prothorax reddish brown, marked with black- 
ish at sides, and a little on center; elytron 
reddish brown with a weak dark band anterior 
to middle and a slightly broader one just 
behind middle, and the scales on these bands 
dark reddish; ventral surfaces paler reddish, 
glabrous except for pale pubescence at side 
of thorax; legs reddish ochraceous, paler on 
tarsi. 
Head four-fifths as broad as pro thorax, 
deeper than wide, strongly punctured and 
glabrous on frontoclypeus; finely punctured, 
pubescent, and carinate on occiput. Antenna 
two-thirds as long as body, fairly slender; 
scape one-half again as long as second seg- 
ment, about as long as third; fourth to sixth 
subequal, slender; seventh to tenth equal in 
length to preceding, slightly stouter; last 
slightly longer. Prothorax seven-eighths as 
