592 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



8. Larger, tegmina milky 7 piilani Kirkaldy. 



8«. Smaller, tegmina not milky, face more clearly spotted apically 8 terryi Kirkaldy. 



9. Second segment of antennae four times as long as the annuliform first q pluvialis Kirkaldy. 



9a. Second segment less than three times as long as the non-annuliform first 10 silvestris Kirkaldy. 



These species are distributed as follows : 



Kauai: liula, phivialis. Oah\i: perkinsi, bobeae, terryi. yioXokdJi: piilani. Lanai : 



silvestris. Maui : fletus, laka. Hawaii : frigidula. 



(i) Nesotho'c fietits Kirkaldy. 



Nesotho'e fletiis Kirkaldy, 1908, op. cit. p. 204. 



t%. Head and pronotum yellowish, with paler keels, the pronotum fuscous laterally 

 with pale granules ; frons with a number of white specks all over the middle third, and 

 a suffused white blotch about the same place ; clypeus fuscous. First segment of 

 antennae black, second fuscous. Scutellum brownish ferruginous, with paler keels. 

 Tegmina warm brown, the base broadly white, produced a little on to the clavus, a 

 large crescentic white area on the apical half exteriorly and a few spots apically ; veins 

 mostly pale with brownish granules. Sterna and sternites pale. Femora and tibiae 

 piceous ; the former pale or sanguineous, basally and apically, the latter annulated with 

 brownish yellow or sanguineous ; tarsi pale. Frons slightly more than twice as long as 

 broad, laterally gently rounded. Second segment of antennae scarcely three times as 

 long as the first, somewhat more rounded in profile than the other species, first about as 

 broad as long. Spur with eight spines. Length $ \\; ? 4|- mm. 



The name "fletus" is in allusion to the battle of " Ke Paniwai " in 1776, when the 

 lao River was " choked " with the slain. 



Hab. Maui, Western Mts, lao Valley (March, Perkins, one ?, and July, one ^, 

 Swezey). Easily recognized by the broad warm brown band down the white tegmen. 



(2) Nesotho'e hula Kirkaldy. 



Nesotho'e hula Kirkaldy, 1908, op. cit. 



(?. Vertex and pronotum white, lateral margins of the latter blackish ; base and apex 

 of frons rather narrowly, middle keel, three short transverse lines in the middle etc., 

 white, the rest dark fuscous ; genae (except the white apex), clypeus, first segment of 

 antennae, scutellum (except the posterior angle minutely, and a few specks on the 

 posterolateral margins) black, keels of scutellum sometimes ferruginous; second segment 

 of antennae fuscous. Tegmina hyaline, veins on clavus and corium pale, with minute 

 fuscous granules, subcostal veins and veins on membrane fuscous, two or three blackish 

 marks on commissure ; marginal vein fuscous. Legs pale, femora longitudinally striped 

 with black. Abdomen apparently mostly black. Frons narrowed basally. Second 

 segment of antennae about three times as long as the first, which is longer than broad. 

 Spur with eight spines. ' 



