Chrysomelidae of Fiji — Bryant and Gressitt 
terior femora black. Underside flavous. Length 
3 mm. 
viti levu: Holotype (BM, NH), Lautoka, 
Sept. 13, 1948, R. A. Lever; 2 paratypes, Nan- 
darivatu, 1100m., Sept. 10, 1938, Zimmerman. 
Eleven paratypes, Tholo-i-suva, Sept. 1950, 
Apr. 1951, and Lami Quarry, near Suva, Mar. 
1951 and Jan. 1955, Krauss. 
Allied to Febra ovata Bry., from New He- 
brides, but smaller, with pattern different, 
more nitid, and not so strongly punctured. 
135. Febra nigroornata vanuana 
Gressitt, n. subsp. 
Female: Testaceous, marked with areas of 
pitchy black: eye black; occiput black behind 
eye; pronotum black on outer half of disc, a 
little more broadly so at apex and base; ely- 
tron black except for a broad oblique hyaline 
strip from just behind middle of base to sec- 
ond quarter of suture, outer margin on basal 
two-fifths extending inward not quite to cen- 
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ter, and external margin narrowly before apex, 
leaving extreme base, short sutural stripe, 
broad sinuous humeral stripe, and most of 
apical half, black; posterior half of hind tibia 
black. 
Head smooth, impunctate, subevenly con- 
vex between eyes. Antenna reaching middle 
of elytron; scape long and slightly arched, 
slightly longer than next two segments com- 
bined; third barely longer than second, but 
more slender; fourth longer than third; sixth 
and following shorter. Prothorax smooth and 
shiny, almost impunctate. Elytron distinctly 
punctured in regular rows, most of punctures 
on basal half slightly smaller than spaces be- 
tween them, those on posterior half much 
smaller. Length 2.8 mm. 
vanua levu: Holotype, female (Bishop 
2467), near Nakawanga on trail from Naka- 
wanga to Wailevu, 50 m., Oct. 9, 1955, 
Gressitt; and paratype, female, same data. 
Differs from the typical form from Viti 
Levu in having the pronotum nearly impunc- 
tate, not striped medially, and pale on middle 
portion of basal margin, the elytron largely 
black in posterior half, with sutural stripe, 
more sinuous humeral stripe, and basal mar- 
gin distinctly black. 
Subfamily HISPINAE 
Genus promecotheca Blanchard 
Promecotheca BL, 1853, Voyage Pole Sud 
Zool. 4: 312 (type: P. caeruleipennis BL; 
Tonga). 
Head short, about as broad as prothcrax; 
antenna slender, two-thirds as long as body, 
the segments partly dissimilar in length; pro- 
thorax longer than broad, broadened in mid- 
dle, constricted near base; elytron long, 
regularly striate-punctate; legs short and 
stout. 
key TO FIJIAN species OF Promecotheca 
1. Prothorax subparallel- sided in anterior 
third; pronotal disc more or less im- 
punctate; legs entirely pale; antenna pale 
basally caeruleipennis 
