HEMIPTERA 557 



% a little darker than the male. Tergites dark ; pygophor pale yellowish ferruginous, 

 ovipositor sheath extending beyond the apex of the tegmina (and of the pygophor) ; last 

 sternite trisinuate apically. Clypeus blackish, genae and lora ferruginous. Length 

 t l\, % 6-J- mm. 



Hab. Kauai, Kalihiwai, 400 ft., on fern {Microkpia strigosa, not as first stated 

 Gleichenia dichotonui) (Oct., Giffard)'. 



Nymph (last instar) : pale brownish yellow, more or less infuscate (varyingly so) 

 on the nota, a pale fuscous band across the bend of the head. Ocellar rudiments 

 reddish. Basal half of tergites clouded in the middle with pale fuscous, blackish 

 sublaterally ; apical half laterally broadly blackish ; beneath mostly pale yellowish : 

 sutures blood red. Like the adults, but the head is a little more produced subangularly. 



(2) Nesopliryne microlepiac, sp. nov. 



t closely allied to the last, but much darker. Black ; basal margin of vertex, 

 a few irregular markings on pronotum and scutellum, a large central suffusion on frons, 

 rostrum (except the apex) etc., brownish testaceous. Tegmina cinereous yellow heavily 

 suffused with black, except in a few places, i.e. a few pale spots on clavus, and the extero- 

 lateral fourth of the corium (except the suffused cross-veins). Legs brownish yellow 

 and black. 



Pygophor black with very short, sparse yellow hairs. Length ^ 5^ mm. 



Hab. Kauai, Kalihiwai, 400 ft, on fern Microlepia strigosa (Oct., Giffard). This 

 may be only a dark var. of the preceding, but I do not think so. 



Nesophryne kukanaroa, Kirkaldy. 

 Bythoscopus kukanaroa Kirk. huj. op. in. p. 114. 

 Hab. Kauai, Halemanu, 4000 ft. 



I cannot refer to the unique type, but I suspect it is allied to the two preceding 

 forms, if not identical. 



Nesophryne kaiaiiiamao, Kirkald)'. 



Bythoscopus kaiamaniao Kirkaldy, huj. op. iii. p. 115. 



Hab. Kauai, high plateau. 



The unique type is, in this case too, not available for inspection by me, but 

 I believe it is allied to the three preceding. If this is so, then a little group of four 

 stoutly built forms in this genus, occur only on Kauai. 



' One nymph was labelled " Kilauea, Hawaii," certainly by mistake. It should have been "Kilauea, 



Kauai." 



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