Genus STENOTRUPIS Wollaston

Stenotrupis Wollaston, Ent. Soc. London, Trans., 434, 1873.

Dioediniorpha Broun, New Zealand Jour. Sci. 1: 489, 1883.

Most of the species of this genus have been described from the Seychelles; others are recorded from Madagascar, Malay Peninsula, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Hebrides, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, and one from Panama. The genus is abundantly represented among the Pacific islands, but few of the species have as yet been collected or described.

Most of the species that I have collected in nature have been attached to tree ferns in the fronds and trunks of which they often live in large colonies; other species, however, have been recorded from various palms.