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apex. Ventral surfaces finely punctured. Hind 
femur moderately stout; first hind tarsal seg- 
ment about as long as remaining combined. 
Length 1.7 mm.; breadth 0.95 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype, male (Bishop 2463), 
Lami Quarry, near Suva, May 1951, Krauss; 
allotopotype, female, same data; 13 paratopo- 
types, same data; one paratype, Navai, Mar. 
1951, Krauss. 
Differs from M. costata Bryant, of New 
Hebrides, in being darker, with the elytra 
blackish and not greenish, and the pronotum 
more evenly punctured. This species may 
possibly belong to Alema. 
Genus nesohaltica Maulik 
Nesohaltica Maulik, 1929, Insects of Samoa 
4(3): 201 (type: N. nigra Maulik; Samoa). 
Rounded oblong; head with vertex delim- 
ited from interocular space by a deep trans- 
verse groove; raised areas in interocular space 
weakly developed; antenna 11 -segmented, 
with two basal and five apical segments 
thickened; eye entire; pro thorax transverse, 
rounded at side, each corner with a seta; 
elytron irregularly punctate; fore coxal cavity 
open, prosternal process broad, concave, 
rough; hind tibia with upper surface flat, with 
short spine near apex beneath tarsus; tarsus 
half as long as tibia, first segment shorter than 
rest combined; claws divaricate. 
KEY TO FIJIAN species of Nesohaltica 
1. Pronotum distinctly punctured, smooth 
and not rugulose 2 
Pronotum uneven, shallowly rugulose, 
very finely and indistinctly punctured; 
antenna pale lauensis 
2. Shiny deep brown with a slight metallic 
tinge; pronotum finely and in part some- 
what closely punctured; elytron irregularly 
punctured, more densely so than pronotum 
brunnea 
Shiny black; pronotum finely and spar- 
ingly punctured; elytron strongly and 
.somewhat closely punctured. . . .vitiensis 
127. Nesohaltica brunnea Bryant, n. sp. 
Fig. 43 
Oblong; shining deep brown with a slight 
metallic tinge; antenna, legs, and underside 
paler; prothorax and elytron closely punc- 
tured. 
Head deep brown, a transverse impression 
between the eyes, the basal half impunctate 
and shining; antenna fulvous, extending to 
the middle of elytron; first segment the 
longest and dilated at the apex; second much 
shorter and slightly rounded; remainder more 
elongate and each about equal, the five ter- 
minal slightly thickened. Prothorax deep 
brown with a metallic tinge, transverse, 
broadest at the base, the sides slightly con- 
tracted in front, the anterior angles oblique, 
closely and finely punctured. Elytron deep 
brown with a metallic tinge, slightly broader 
than the base of the prothorax, oblong, 
rounded at the apex, closely and irregularly 
punctured. Legs and underside paler and more 
fulvous, the posterior femora slightly darker. 
Length 2 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (Bishop 2464), Nan- 
darivatu, 850 m., Sept. 8, 1938, beating shrub- 
bery, Zimmerman. One of same data, ques- 
tionably this species; four paratypes, Lami 
Quarry, near Suva, May 1951, Krauss, and a 
fifth specimen from Lami tentatively referred 
here. 
Fig. 43. Nesohaltica brunnea Bryant, n. sp., type. 
