^^4'^ Occasional f'apcrs Bcniicc P. Bisliof^ Miiscitiii 



before the coniiui^" i)f civilization. The native i^'enus Paratrii^oni- 

 d ill III is represented by ten species in tbe material l^efore us and 

 most of the sixteen species recognized by Perkins are, we believe, 

 valid. In addition the Prog'nathogTyllides, a group erected by 

 Perkins, is peculiar to Hawaii. We find that three instead of five 

 genera are represented : the first genus by at least three species, 

 jiossibly by five, the second by one, and the third by a few species 

 but certainly not by eleven, as Perkins supposed. 



GrvllotalpinaE 



Gryllotalpa africana Beauvois 



1805. Cryllo-talpa africana Beauvois. Ins. Rec. Afr. et Amer., 

 p. 229, pi. Orth. lie. fig. 6. [ 9 ; "Royaume d'Oware." in 

 present Nigeria. Africa.] 



South side of Oahu, \'. 15. 1919, (J. A. Kusche), i9, 

 [Hebard Coll.]. 



Kauai, 3500 feet, I\', i, 1919, (J. A. Kuschej, 16, [Hebard 

 Coll.]. 



These specimens agree closely with material from Japan and 

 from Shanghai. China, in the collections of the Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy. We agree with Hirase"- in considering Scudder's G. oryctcs, 

 described from Shanghai. China, a synonym of the present, very 

 widely distributed, species. 



The first record of this species in Hawaii outside the island 

 of Oahu was that by Swezey, from Waimea, Kauai. "^ 



Grvllinae 



Gryllodes sigillatus (W^alker) 



1869. Grylliis sigillatus Walker. Cat. Dermapt. Saltat. Blatt. 

 Suppl. Br. Alus.. p. 46. [ 9 ; Swan River, [Australia].] 



Kahoolawe Island, (H. A. Pilsbry), i juv., [A. N. S. P.]. 



'" Monogr. Gryll. Formosa, p. 7, (igii). 



°^ Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, III, p. 380, (1917). 



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