542 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



Pronotum pale ferruginous, with 5 longitudinal, parallel, elongate spots (or short 

 stripes) on the basal third, the middle one extending anteriorly as far as the 

 transverse swelling, the sublateral ones sometimes rather indistinct. Scutellum piceous, 

 basal angles pale ferruginous, posterior angle white. Tegmina piceous, extero-lateral 

 margin on basal half brownish yellow. Membrane hyaline, basal third dark fuscous. 

 Sterna polished black, pleura brownish yellow tinged with red, and more or less marked 

 with blackish. Legs and ambulacra pale, apical half of hind femora rosy. Abdomen 

 beneath pale reddish brown, more or less clouded with blackish on sternites 2 — 6. 

 Orifices pale, slightly rosy. Three apical segments of antennae subequal, the fourth 

 a little the longer, rather elongately incrassate. Pronotal callosities percurrent, 

 pronotum rather sparsely punctured. 



$ 6th sternite very obtusely, 7th acutely, emarginate. Length 3^ — 4 mm. 



Hab. Oahu, Waianae Mts., about 3000 ft., Feb. (no. 547). 



(14) N'ysius oresitrophus, sp. nov. 



Black ; apex of clypeus, apex of first, second and third segments of antennae, 

 a small spot on middle of hind margin of pronotum, labium, legs, etc. brownish 

 testaceous or brownish yellow, femora and tibiae broadly banded with piceous ; tarsi 

 partly fuscous. Postero-lateral angles of pronotum and posterior angle of scutellum 

 yellowish testaceous. Tegmina yellowish testaceous, a large spot at base, another at 

 intero-apical angle of corium, and a larger one on apical margin of corium, black. 

 Membrane yellowish brown, apparently basally blackish. Antennae with the second and 

 fourth segments subequal, a little longer than the third. Labium reaching well beyond 

 the hind coxae. Pronotum rather superficially punctured, almost striate. Length 

 4^ mm. 



Hab. Maui, Haleakala, over 5000 ft. (Oct., Perkins, no. 636) i carded example. 



(15) Nysius nubicola, sp. nov. 



Head blackish with a red line down the middle ; antennae reddish or reddish 

 testaceous. Pronotum reddish or reddish testaceous punctured with blackish, the 

 laevigate areas blackish (sometimes reddishly suffused). Scutellum rufescent, punctured 

 with blackish. Tegmina yellowish hyaline, in some examples almost immaculate, in 

 others blotched apically. Labium, legs, ambulacra, orifices, etc. rufescent or yellowish 

 testaceous, apical segment of labium black, femora spotted with black. Underside 

 black, the pleura partly rufescent, abdomen varyingly pale in part. Head and pronotum 

 sparsely pubescent. Labium extending beyond hind coxae, first segment reaching to 

 apical margin of prosternum. Second .segment of antennae distinctly longer than the 



