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sparse blackish marks. Tegmina with a broad band across the middle rather obliquely, 

 a second nearer the apex, and the apex, blackish. A large whitish spot on the clavus, 

 bordered basally with black. Rostrum and legs pale ferruginous, or brownish testaceous ; 

 the basal three-fourths of the fore femora, the middle femora, a ring on the hind femora, 

 the bases (minutely) of the spines on the hind tibiae etc., black. Sternites black (and 

 probably tergites). 



t. Valve very small. Length 4^^ mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Hilo (April, Swezey). 



(40) NesopJu'osync niieniie, sp. nov. 



$. Yellowish testaceous ; vertex with a more or less broken cross and four specks, 

 brownish ; frons with a broken and feeble brownish black radiating pattern. Pronotum 

 (tinged with green) and scutellum somewhat soiled. Tegmina cinereous, tinged with 

 green, the closed clavi with a large pale greenish white spot, irregularly and very 

 narrowly margined with pale fuscous ; corium exteriorly mostly hyaline, veins dark 

 fuscous, cross veins somewhat suffused ; two subcontiguous nodal veins and one near the 

 base of the interior' subapical ; some of the cells a little nebulose medianly. Sternites 

 black, apical segments and pygophor pale greenish white, hairs pale. Head of the 

 pipturi type. 



%. The grill fainter ; pronotum more or less variegated with pale fuscous. 

 Pygophor brownish yellow, hairs concolorous, ovipositor-sheath ferruginous, narrowly 

 margined with blackish brown. Head not so angulate anteriorly as in the ^. Eyes 

 pale castaneous, with a transverse paler bar, narrowly bordered with blackish on each 

 side, not so distinct in the t as in the %. Length, ^ 4, $ 4^ mm. 



Nymph : pale yellow brown, with the following blackish marks : two subcontiguous 

 specks in the middle and four on the apical margin of the vertex ; two spots anteriorly 

 and four on the hind margin of the pronotum ; a submedian longitudinal line on the 

 mesometanotum and a short transverse line at the base which turns off upwards at 

 right angles for a little space, also one or two spots etc. on the pads ; eight sublateral 

 and five lateral (basal) spots on the tergites and two submedian specks on the last 

 tergite. Each of the 26 lateral and sublateral spots emits a black bristle and there are 

 some of the latter also on the last tergite and on the pygophor. Legs pale, tibiae more 

 or less striped with black, bristles of hind tibia pale. Antennae more or less fuscous, 

 flagellum black. (Hamakua, April, Swezey.) 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea (April, Swezey, Kirkaldy). 

 ' On one tegmen there is only one subapical, the exterior, both the discoidals being undivided. 



