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Hyperomorpha Blackburn, 

 (i) Hyperomorpha squamosa Blackburn. 

 Hyperomorpha squamosa Blackb., /. r. p. 182. 



Hab. Oahu. A single example taken in wet moss in the Pausa valley (Black- 

 burn). I have not met with this, or the preceding genus. 



Tribe CALANDRINI. 



Sphenophorus Schonherr. 



(i) Sphenophorus obsairiis Boisd. 



Calandra obsciira Boisd. Voy. Astr. 11. p. 448; Fairm. Rev. Zool. 1S49, p. 474. 

 The various islands. 



Hab. a destructive species in the fields of sugar-cane, well-known as the ' cane- 

 borer.' Also on banana in the mountains and sometimes found under rocks. The 

 species has probably a wide distribution outside the Archipelago, though very little has 

 been written about it. 



Calandra Clairville. 

 (i) Calandra reniota Sharp. 



Cala7idra reviota Sharp, Tr. Dublin Soc. iii. 1885, p. 183. 

 Hab. Oahu (Blackburn). Maui ; in banana stems ; common. 



(2) Calandra oryzae, L. 

 Calandra oryzae Linn., Amaen. Ace. vi. p. 395. 

 Hab. All the islands ; in food. 



(3) Calandra linearis van striata Thunb. 

 Calandra linearis var. striata Thunb. Nov. Act. Ups. vii. p. 112. 

 Hab. Oahu ; in decaying tamarinds (Blackburn). 



Tribe COSSONINI. 



Dryophthorus Schonherr. 



(i) Dryophthorus squalidus Sharp. 



Dryophthorus squalidus Sharp, Tr. Ent. Soc. London, 1S78, p. 22. 

 Hab. Common throughout the islands in the mountains. 



This abundant species is extremely variable in size, the smallest examples are less 

 than four, the largest more than six, mm. in length. All the interstices of the elytra 

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