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Sept. 16, 1938, Zimmerman. Two paratypes, 
ridge west of Nandarivatu, 850 m., Sept. 9, 
1938, Zimmerman; one, Mavai, Sept. 1950, 
Krauss. 
Two additional specimens, Nandarivatu, 
1000 m., Sept. 6, 1938, Zimmerman, and 
Daku road, east of Lambasa, Vanua Levu, 
Oct. 6, 1955, Gressitt, appear to represent 
two different, related species. The former has 
the prothorax fully as long as broad, but in 
the latter it is broader and more rounded at 
side. 
Differs from D. fulva Bryant in being 
smaller, more finely punctured, and with the 
prothorax longer and less rounded at side. 
This species probably represents a different 
genus. 
Genus damelia Clark 
Damelia Clark, 1864, Jour. Ent. 2: 255 (type: 
D. marshalli Clark; Fiji); Chapuis, 1874, 
Gen. Col. 10: 271; Lefevre, 1885, Soc. Sci. 
Liege, Mem. Ser. 2, 11: 72. 
Head small; last maxillary palpal segment 
acuminate; eye large. Antenna filiform, three- 
fourths as long as body, with scape swollen, 
second and third subequal, following longer 
and last shorter and stouter. Prothorax cylin- 
drical, nearly as long as broad, dilated in mid- 
dle, lateral border wanting, and surface ir- 
regular. Elytron broad, subquadrate, rounded 
apically, irregular, punctured and rugose- 
tuberculate. 
key to fijian species of Damelia 
1. Color deep metallic or bronzy black. ... 2 
Color purplish black to greenish black; 
pronotal punctures coarse marshalli 
2. Elytron with close pubescence; legs with 
long pubescence; bronzy black. . .rugosa 
Elytron with scattered pubescence; legs 
with short pubescence; deep metallic 
brown verrucosa 
79- Damelia marshalli Clark 
Damelia marshalli Clark, 1864, Jour. Ent. 2: 
256 (Fiji; type in Brit. Mus.); Fairmaire, 
1882, Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. Ser. 6, 1: 
482. 
Greenish black to purplish black, shiny. 
Head closely and in part confluently punc- 
tured; antenna distinctly thickened distally; 
prothorax slightly narrower than elytra, round- 
ed at side, densely punctured and bearing three 
tubercles; elytron strongly and densely punc- 
tured and with somewhat oblong tubercles. 
Length 5 mm.; breadth 2.5 mm. 
viti levu: Presumably Viti Levu, though 
locality not specified. Lacking in present 
collection. 
80. Damelia verrucosa Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 31 
Deep metallic brown, antenna and tibiae 
fulvous; rugosely punctured, prothorax with 
two large median blunt tubercles, and four 
small ones near side margin; elytron irreg- 
ularly verrucose. 
Head strongly punctured, a smooth longi- 
tudinal carina from between eyes to base; 
Fig. 31. Damelia verrucosa Bryant, n. sp., type. 
