HEMIPTERA 561 



with two greyish brown suffused spots. Veins (except the colourless radial and claval 

 veins) mostly yellowish fuscous, cells slightly suffused. Posterior tibiae with brown 

 piliferous tubercles. Lora remote from apical margin of genae. Anal vein of clavus 

 not hooked or strongly curved. Vertex obtuse, forming more or less of a curve with 

 the eyes, a little produced. 



t. Genital segments pale. V^alve short. Plates pointed apically, Haccid, lateral 

 margins reflexed, about three-fourths of the length of the mostly blackish pygophors 

 which are bristly apically. Sternites sometimes more or less dark. 



?. Hypopygium somewhat long, laterally rounded, gradually produced at the 

 middle which is slightly notched. Pygophor elongate, not quite so long as the black 

 ovipositor, apical half with scattered pale yellow bristles. Length 4^ mm. 



Hab. Oahu, Tantalus, 1300 ft. (Feb. — Apr., Kirkaldy, Terry, Giffard and 

 Swezey), and Maunawili, 820 ft. (Feb., Giffard) on Mamake [Piptitriis albidus). The 

 type is a Tantalus specimen. 



(8) Nesophrosyne ponapona, sp. nov. 



Allied to the last, but darker and with a different pattern. Head etc. pale 

 yellowish testaceous, vertex with a thin brown transverse line and two specks of the 

 same tint. Ocelli orange. Basal two-thirds of frons yellowish brown with dark brown 

 grill ; apical third testaceous. Clypeus and lora apically blackish brown. Pronotum 

 pale orange brown tinged with olivaceous, with obscure longitudinal streaks. Pro- 

 sternum and sternites black (except laterally, t orange yellow, % yellowish). Scutellum 

 whitish, anterolateral and posterior angles widely pale orange brown. Tegmina milky, 

 basal two-thirds suffused with pale ochreous brownish, subcostal cell and a number of 

 spots on the rest, milky white ; veins yellowish fuscous, apical ones mostly darkly suffused, 

 two dark spots in the subcostal cell. Tegmina with two nodal veins, one from the 

 middle, one from the base, of the exterior subapical cell, suffused ; subapical cell remote 

 from the subcostal vein. Wings smoky ; veins dark fuscous. 



Z- Sternites black, lateral margins orange yellow. 



?. Sternites blackish, lateral margins yellowish, pygophor orange brown with 

 yellowish brown bristles ; ovipositor sheath blackish. 



Van Sometimes very dark and suffused. Length 4:j: mm. 



Hab. Same localities and foodplant as N. pipturi, but easily distinguished by the 

 pattern of the tegmina. 



(9) Nesophrosyne opalescens, sp. nov. 



Allied to N. pipturi. Vertex, frons, antennae, pronotum and scutellum pale, some- 

 what soiled, luteous. Clypeus, lora and genae mauvish opalescent. Ocelli crimson- 

 ringed. Tegmina brownish yellow, with fuscous markings much as in A^. pipturi, the 



