28. Paromius piratoides (Costa) .

Plociomerus piratoides Costa, Mus. Zool. Napoli, Ann. 2: 78, 1864.

One specimen, 3 miles south of Piti, May 23, 1936, Usinger .

This large species is at once distinguished from pallidus by the long rostrum reaching nearly to hind coxae and the longer antennae, with second segment one third longer than fourth segment (the two segments subequal in pallidus). All of the specimens before me from the Carolines belong here. The species was described from the Philippines.