HEMIPTERA 563 



bloom basally ; apical half of the subcostal cell white with two suffused brownish dark 

 brown veins towards the apex ; a large yellowish cinereous spot occupying most of the 

 basal half of the clavus ; apical cells mostly smoky ; there is also the orange yellow spot 

 mentioned before. Wings dark smoky, veins blackish. Abdomen and sterna black, 

 mostly. 



? duller and less variegated, the orange yellow spot sometimes almost absent. 

 Pronotum basally and the scutellum olivaceous. Sternites partly pale. Genital 

 segments pale yellowish ferruginous, ovipositor black. Length ^ 3f, % i,\ mm. 



Hab. Oahu, Tantalus, 1300 ft. (Jan. and Apr., Giffard) on Koolea {Myrsine 

 lessertiand). 



{13) Nesophrosync giffardi, sp. nov. 



,J. Head and scutellum bright pale yellow. Pronotum and tegmina French grey, 

 the latter with a broad black longitudinal stripe along the inner margin of the corium 

 as far as the apex of the clavus, the stripes on the two tegmina being connected by 

 a short transverse stripe. Subcostal cell and membrane whitish or hyaline ; apical and 

 subapical veins suffused with black or smoky. Wings smoky, veins dark. Legs 

 whitish, second segment of posterior tarsi dark. Sterna blackish. Abdomen black 

 and white annulate, somewhat irregularly. 



% more obscure, the tegminal band absent, or faindy indicated. Sternites mostly 

 pale. Length ^ 4, $ 4^ mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea (Aug., Perkins). Oahu: Tantalus, 1300 ft. (Jan., Feb., 

 Apr., Giffard). The type is a Kilauea specimen. 



(14) Nesophrosync ulaula, sp. nov. 



%. Rosy ferruginous, posterior margin of vertex very narrowly pale yellow. Ocelli 

 ringed around with fuscous. Clypeus narrowly lined exteriorly with fuscous. Meso- 

 notum, tergites, sternites, femora (at least basally) dark fuscous or black. Labium, 

 rest of legs etc., pale brownish testaceous (the latter sometimes a little fuscous). 

 Tegmina dark yellowish ferruginous ; apical cells (except the first) and appendix pale. 

 Wings pale smoky, veins fuscous. Genital segments dorsally fulvous, ventrally pale 

 ferruginous, ovipositor dark fuscous. Hypopygium apically sinuate, minutely notched 

 medially. Length 5I mm. 



Hab. Oahu, "Honolulu Mts" (Aug., Perkins). 



Var. nigrolineata nov. 



Di^"- s from the type by the slightly more angulate vertex, by a dark fuscous, 

 tran? .rse, percurrent stripe apical of the ocelli, and by the rather yellower tegmina. 



Hab. Oahu, Maunaloa, 2000 ft. (Dec, Giffard). 



This may be a good species, but I have seen only a single female, and only two 

 females of the typical form. 



F. H. 11. 73 



