COLEOPTERA 99 



(i) Clytarlus filipes Sharp. 



Clytarlus filipes Sharp, Tr. Dublin Soc. (2) iii. 1885, p. 196. 



This species has the punctuation of the upper surface denser and finer than in the 

 allies. It. is readily distinguished, so far as the male is concerned by the peculiar struc- 

 ture of the dorsal plate of the genital segment, which is unusually large and very deeply 

 notched, so that the two angles project as a sort of forceps at the tip of the body. 

 (Plate VI. fig. I a) 



Hab. Hawaii ; Mauna Loa, " on Acacia sp." Blackburn : Kona and Kilauea in 

 August and September ; Kau, the half-way house, Sepr. Perkins. Apparently rare, we 

 having received only 1 5 examples. Attached to Sophora chrysophylla. 



(2) Clytarlus mediocris, sp. no v. 



Minor, fusco-niger, depressus, opacus, albido-vestitus, elytris plus minusve conspicue 

 transversim fasciatis, antennis pedibusque fusco-testaceis, femoribus basibus pallidis. 

 Long. 4-^ — 6^millim. 



(Plate VI. figs. I and i b.) 



Closely allied to C. filipes, but with a shorter stalk to the hind femora, and with 

 the terminal dorsal plate of the male much less deeply excised. 



Hab. Maui ; a series of 38 specimens was found on Haleakala, 3000 — 5000 ft. 

 May 1896. Attached to Sophora chrysophylla. 



(3) Clytarlus fragilis Sharp. 



Clytarlus fragilis Sharp, Tr. ent. Soc. London 1881, p. 534; Tr. Dublin Soc. (2) 

 III. 1885, PL V. fig. 48. 



Hab. Oahu ; Palolo Valley, November, Blackburn : Waianae mountains, Feb- 

 ruary 1896, and April 1892 ; beaten from dead branches of Koa, Perkins. Apparently 

 very rare, only four specimens having been obtained. On Acacia koa. 



(4) Clytarlus dedilis, sp, nov. 



Minor, subdepressus, testaceo-brunneus, in elytris subfasciatus, dense punctatus, 

 pedibus ex parte majore testaceis, femoribus posterioribus clava abrupta. Long. ? 

 9 millim. 



Closely allied to C fragilis, but with the club of the hind femora rather longer, 

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