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twice as long as second; third to sixth each 
long and slender; remainder to apical seg- 
ment slightly thickened and more pubescent, 
basal portion of each segment slightly fus- 
cous. Prothorax plum-brown clothed with 
golden pubescence, widest just behind mid- 
dle, and contracted in front, two blunt tuber- 
cles on vertex. Scutellum plum-brown, im- 
punctate, rounded at apex. Elytron plum- 
brown, a transverse paler band behind middle, 
and apex paler; sides parallel and rounded at 
apex, punctate-striate, clothed with short ad- 
pressed golden pubescence. Legs with central 
portion of femora darker; tibiae with apical 
and basal portions darker. Underside fuscous, 
clothed with scattered pubescence; first ven- 
tral segment of abdomen longest. Length 5- 
5.5 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2437), Nan- 
darivatu, Sept. 2, 193S, Kondo, one spec- 
imen. Nandarivatu, Navai Mill, Oct. 13, 1937, 
Valentine, four specimens. Nandarivatu, 1100 
m„, Sept. 3, 1938, Zimmerman, two specimens. 
Navai-Nasonga trail, Sept. 12, 1938, Zim- 
merman, three specimens; Mt. Victoria, 950 
m., Sept. 16, 1938, Zimmerman. 
A very distinct species, on account of the 
tuberculate prothorax. 
77. Demotina rugosata Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 30c 
Reddish brown to pitchy black, paler in 
part: head reddish brown, blackish on pos- 
terior portion of occiput; antenna ochraceous 
basally, pitchy on third to seventh segments, 
brown on remainder; prothorax reddish 
brown, largely pitchy to blackish at side; 
scutellum black; elytron dull reddish brown, 
with some of raised areas blackish and some 
of the lesser ones reddish or paler; ventral 
surfaces reddish brown, partly pitchy on first 
and last abdominal sternites; legs testaceous 
with femora black preapically, reddish apic- 
ally, and tibiae partly pitchy subbasally and 
preapically. Dorsum somewhat irregularly and 
feebly clothed with minute goldish scales and 
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Fig. 30. a, Demotina nodosa Bryant, n. sp., type; 
b , Demotina nodosa , aedeagus; c, Demotina rugosata 
Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus; d, Demotina cylindricollis 
Gressitt, n. sp., aedeagus. 
a few erect hairs; ventral surfaces with a very 
few fine subrecumbent hairs. 
Head slightly more than three-fourths as 
broad as prothorax, deeper than wide, dis- 
tinctly punctured on the shiny frontoclypeus, 
more closely and finely punctured, and me- 
dially carinate, on the duller occiput. Antenna 
two-thirds as long as body, rather slender; 
scape nearly twice as long as second segment, 
barely longer than third; fourth slightly longer 
than third; fifth barely shorter than fourth, 
