Chrysomelidae of Fiji — Bryant and Gressitt 
73 
kandavu : Holotype (Bishop 2452), Yawi, 
Apr. 28, 1941, Krauss. Eighteen paratypes 
(Bishop, BM, US, CSIRO, CAS): two para- 
topotypes, same data; remainder Tiliva and 
Wai Salima, Apr. 30, 1941, Krauss. 
Differs from the preceding subspecies in 
being still smaller, slightly paler, and almost 
without dark markings, thus differing from 
the typical form in being much smaller and 
almost one-colored. 
104. Monolepta ( Metrioidea ) moala 
Gressitt, n. sp. 
Male: Reddish castaneous, paler on front 
of head; antenna and legs testaceous. Body 
subglabrous above, with a few fine pale hairs 
on elytral border; antenna, legs, and ventral 
surfaces with short sparse oblique pale hairs. 
Head a little narrower than prothorax, about 
as broad as long, impunctate, with a pair of 
transverse swellings on vertex, smooth on 
occiput. Antenna three-fourths as long as 
body, slightly flattened beyond fifth segment; 
scape slightly longer than, and fourth sub- 
equal to, second and third segments com- 
bined; following subequal. Prothorax nearly 
as long as broad, obtusely rounded at side, 
broadest one-fourth from apex, broader at 
apex than at base, truncate anteriorly and 
convex basally, in outline; disc even, smooth, 
feebly punctured. Scutellum triangular. Elytron 
broadest in apical third, singly rounded 
apically; disc finely, irregularly, and not very 
closely punctured. Length 2.75 mm.; breadth 
0.93 mm. 
Female: Body broader, a little more heavily 
punctured. Length 2.45 mm.; breadth 1.4mm. 
Paratypes: Length 1.6-2. 5 mm.; breadth 
0.9-1. 4 mm. 
central Fiji: Holotype, male (Bishop 
2453), Matuku, Moala Group, July 6, 1924, 
Bryan; allotopotype (Bishop), July 4. Thirty- 
seven paratopotypes (Bishop, BM, US, CS- 
IRO, CAS) : July 4-6, 1924, Bryan. 
Differs from M. signatipennis (Fairm.) in 
being smaller, more convex, darker and more 
uniformly colored. 
105. Monolepta (Metrioidea) 
zimmermani Bryant, new name 
Monolepta modesta Bryant (nec Blackburn), 
1925, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 9, 15: 
599 (Lautoka; type in Brit. Mus.). 
Black to pitchy brown, nitid; prothorax 
with greenish reflections; antenna, tibiae, and 
tarsi flavous. Head smooth; antenna with 
fourth segment about equal to scape, fifth a 
very little shorter than fourth; prothorax nitid, 
rather strongly punctured, narrower than ely- 
tral base, slightly broader than long, very 
little contracted at base, from middle slightly 
converging to apex; elytron strongly and 
rather closely punctured, punctures about as 
strong as those on prothorax, side gradually 
widening from base to beyond middle and 
there rounded to apex; abdominal sterna feebly 
punctured and slightly pubescent. 
Female: With second and third antennal 
segments slightly longer. Length 2. 4-2. 7 
mm.; breadth 1.15-1.3 mm. 
viti levu: Lautoka (type loc.). Tholo-i- 
suva (Colo-i-suva), June 1924, Bryan; Nata- 
bakula, near Singatoka, Apr. 1941, Krauss. 
ovalau: Wainiloka, Draiba trail, July 
1938, Zimmerman; four specimens. 
A specimen from Kalambu, near Suva, Apr. 
1941, Krauss, does not agree in puncturation. 
106. Monolepta (Metrioides) vitiensis 
Bryant 
Monolepta vitiensis Bryant, 1925, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 9, 15: 599 (Labasa; 
type in Brit. Mus.). 
Blackish brown, nitid; antenna, frons, legs, 
humeri, and venter testaceous. Head smooth, 
a transverse impression between eyes; an- 
tenna filiform, reaching beyond middle of 
elytron; scape long, slightly curved, longer 
than second and third segments combined, 
second and third subequal, second slightly 
more swollen than third, fourth equal to sec- 
ond and third combined; prothorax strongly 
punctured, much narrower than elytra, very 
little broader than long, side nearly straight; 
