HEMIPTERA 541 



var. (<5) brunnealis nov. 

 Tegmina pale ferruginous inwardly. 

 Hab. Haleakala, 5000 ft. (April). 



var. {c) atralis nov. 

 Upper surface blackish brown ; a small spot at base of head, one at middle and 

 one at each lateral angle of hind margin of pronotum, pale ; a few testaceous specks on 

 tegmina, mostly near the lateral margin. 



Hab. Haleakala, 5000 ft. (April). 



The type of this species is one of the specimens from Haleakala. 



(11) Nysius ochriasis Kirkaldy. 

 Nysius ochriasis Kirkaldy, 1902, huj. op. iii. 162. 

 Food plant : Duhautia sp. 



(12) Nysius insulicola, sp. nov. 



Similar in general appearance to N. mauiensis, but the pronotum is maculate only 

 at the postero-lateral angles. 



Head black ; clypeus and a ring around the eyes, brownish yellow. Antennae pale 

 brownish yellow, indistinctly infuscate medially. Labium pale yellow, apically blackish. 

 Pronotum brownish yellow (callosities browner), confusedly and comparatively sparsely 

 brownly punctured, postero-lateral angles blackish brown. Scutellum brownish yellow, 

 basally and laterally punctured with dark brown, posterior angle whitish. Tegmina 

 subhyaline, pale brownish yellow, commissure and a short oblique stripe apically on 

 exocorium dark fuscous. Membrane hyaline, a broad fuscous stripe down the middle. 

 Beneath pale yellowish brown with a pink tinge ; sterna mostly blackish, abdomen 

 medially pale yellow ; ambulacra and orifices whitish ; legs pale yellow, femora spotted 

 with dark brown, hind femora with a dark brown subapical ring. Second and third 

 segments of the antennae subequal, each longer than the fourth. Pronotal callosity 

 percurrent ; lateral margins very slightly sinuate. % 6th and 7th sternites acute- 

 angularly emarginate apically. Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Lanai, over 2000 ft. (Jan., Perkins). 



(13) jVysius silvestris, sp. nov. 



Head black, clypeus pale yellow, ocelli red ; eyes black, interiorly margined with 

 testaceous. Antennae and labium pale brownish testaceous, the former with segments 

 I — 3 feebly ringed with pale fuscous, 4th pale ferrugineotestaceous, apically pale 

 fuscous, the apex of labium blackish. 



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