natural, history

out, with 10 regular rows of widely spaced minute punctures. Legs with rather sparseelongate shallow punctures on the femora, which are denser on the front pair.Length 2.5-2.8 mm.Te-Avamanggu, 2 0, taken from the crop of a Fantail Warbler (Gerygone fla~'olateraliscitrina) (Dan. Exp.).Holotype in the Copenhagen Zool9gical Museum; co type in the British Museum.SUBFAMIL Y COSSONINAEStereoderus bradJeyi n. sp.(PI. IS, Fig. I)O{'. Derm very shiny black, entirely bare above and below, except underneath therostrum.Head of the)' shagreened, with rather widely separated small deep punctures,sometimes with a faint median impression; in the middle of the anterior margin twocontiguous shiny granules; head of the,;! not shagreened but shiny, with a smallmedian fovea instead of the two granules. Rostrum transverse (3: 5), almost parallel-sided, but the apical lateral angle more rounded off on the left than on the right:the dorsum of the)' shagreened and with punctures like those on the head but muchmore numerous; the dorsum of the 1 shiny and slightly more comex transversely:the underside in the:; with a semicircular fringe of long dense erect red hairs roundthe buccal opening, which in the ~ is replaced by a very sparse fringe of pale hairs.Prothorax longer than broad (II: 8). widest close to the base, the basal angles beingbroadly rounded, and very gradually narrowing anteriorly (usually with a very feeblesinuation in the middle) to the very deep subapical constriction which is continueddeeply across the disk. the base feebly bisinuate and with a finely punctate margin;the dorsum with widely separated small punctures and an irregular smooth medianstripe, the punctures on the pleurae very similar; the ¥ with larger and closer punctures.Scutellum small, ovate. impunctate. E~rtra with striae 1-5 rather deeply impressedin the basal half and with strong close punctures. but becoming shallowerbehind, the lateral striae also much shallower with smaller. more distant punctures:the intervals slightly convex, with irregular sparse minute punctures. intervals 2-4 ofabout equal width at the base.Length 6-7 mm.Rennelll., Hutuna, 3 ), I ~. IX-X. 1953 (Brit. Exp.).Holotype in the British Museum.Most nearly allied to S. barhatus Woll., from Ceram. which has a similar fulvous"beard" beneath the rostrum, but differs in having. the rostrum much more transverse,nearly twice as broad as long; the head has only a single undivided granule in front;the elytra are not longer than the rest of the body (much longer in bradleyi). theintervals are flatter, with more numerous minute punctures, and 3 is wider at thebase than 2 or 4.The genus has a wide range from India to Fiji.125