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interstices slightly elevated, tapering sharply 
to apex; exposing extremity of pygidium. 
Metasternum impunctate; first abdominal ster- 
nite about as long as next three together, last 
feebly punctured. Length 2 mm. 
viti levu: Lautoka Mts. (type locality). 
One, Nandarivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 1938, Zim- 
merman, is questionably referred to this 
species. 
Genus manobia Jacoby 
Manobia Jacoby, 1885, Mus. Civ. Genova, 
Ann. 22: 73 (type: Manobia nigripennis 
Jac.; Sumatra). 
Ovate-subquadrate, convex; antenna nearly 
as long as body; terminal segments slightly 
thickened; pro thorax with a depression near 
basal margin; scutellum broadly ovate; ely- 
tron deeply depressed behind the raised base, 
coarsely punctate-striate; hind tibia with small 
apical spine; first hind tarsal segment equal 
to next two united; claws appendiculate. 
key TO fijian species OF Manobia 
1. Dorsum reddish brown to blackish; 
scape less than twice as long as second 
antennal segment. 2 
Dorsum dark metallic green; scape 
twice as long as second segment. . . . 
metallica 
2(1). Basal portion of pronotum distinctly 
and sinuately grooved, or feebly de- 
pressed and strongly punctured 3 
Basal portion of pronotum with a dis- 
tinct, smooth, and nearly impunctate, 
gradual depression levicollis 
3(2). Dorsum pitchy black; base of pronc- 
tum distinctly and sinuately grooved; 
second antennal segment distinctly 
larger than third producticollis 
Dorsum reddish brown; base of pro- 
ne turn feebly depressed; second an- 
tennal segment hardly larger than third 
obtusicollis 
PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. XI, January, 1957 
123. Manobia metallica Bryant 
Manobia metallica Bryant, 1945, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 12: 427 (Tomaniivi; 
type in Brit. Mus.). 
Dark metallic green; antenna and legs 
flavous. Head shiny, impuncate; antenna reach- 
ing middle of elytron, scape twice as long as 
second segment; prothorax shiny, finely punc- 
tured, more strongly so basally; elytron with 
interpunctural rows near side slightly costate. 
Length 2 mm. 
viti levu: Mt. Victoria (Tomaniivi): 900 
m.; type locality. 
124. Manobia levicollis Gressitt, n. sp. 
Fig. 42 
Dark reddish brown; tarsi testaceous; an- 
tenna pale brown with third to fifth segments 
testaceous and scape dark brown. 
Head carinate medially on frons, finely 
grooved medially just behind antennal inser- 
tions; smooth and impunctate on occiput. 
Antenna more than one-half as long as body, 
distinctly thickened in last five segments; 
scape a little longer than second segment; 
third smaller, subequal to fourth; fifth longer, 
subequal to sixth; seventh and following each 
longer, and thicker, than sixth. Prothorax 
slightly broader than long, much longer in 
middle than at side, anterior and posterior 
angles oblique; basal margin sinuate, strongly 
convex at middle; disc smooth and shiny, 
very finely and sparsely punctured, gradually 
and broadly depressed near base. Scutellum 
rounded-truncate apicaily. Elytron swollen 
near base, depressed behind swelling, seriate- 
punctate, the punctures larger in depression 
and becoming quite fine in posterior quarter. 
Abdomen finely punctured. Hind femur small; 
hind tibia slender, feebly grooved behind; 
first hind tarsal segment shorter than remain- 
ing combined. Length 1.65 mm.; breadth 
0.8 mm. 
vm levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2461), 
Nandarivatu, 1100 m., Sept. 10, 1938, Zim- 
merman. 
