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1905. Xipliidiuni varipciinc Swezey, Exp. Sta. Hawaiian 

 Sugar PL Assn., Div. Ent., Bull. I. pt. 7. p. 216, pi. XIV, 

 16 figures. [5,9, juv. ; Honolulu and elsewhere in the 

 Hawaiian Islands.] 



Comparison of Hawaiian specimens with the large American 

 series in the collections of the Philadelphia Academy proves con- 

 clusively the synonymy indicated above. At the time varipcnnc 

 was described, the literature on the genus was in great confusion, 

 due largely to the very unsatisfactory treatment in Redtenbacher's 

 "Monographic der Conocephaliden." 



The discussion of the species by Swezey, covering twelve 

 pages, is extremely interesting and contains much valuable data. 



Rehn and Hebard have more recently shown that Xipludiiiin 

 meridionalc, propinqnuni and brochyptcniin are synonyms of this 

 species.*'^ 



Previous to Swezey's description of varipcnnc, the species had 

 appeared generally in the Hawaiian literature as XipJiidinni fus- 

 ciini, owing to Brunner's original misidentification. 



Hawaii. 4000 feet, \\ 8, 1919, (J. A. Kusche), 4$ (i brachyp- 

 terous), [Hebard Coll.]. 



Mount Konahuanui, Oahu, A'l, 6, 1919, (J. A. Kusche), i^, 

 I $ ( brachypterous ) , [Hebard Coll.]. 



The species appears to have been introduced into Hawaii about 

 1890, and was reported as occurring "only around Honolulu," in 

 1899. It is now plentiful and very widely distributed in the Ter- 

 ritory. 



In the Americas, saltator is the most widely distributed and 

 abundant of the tropical species of the genus, occurring from Costa 

 Rica and Montserratt in the West Indies southward to Paraguay. 



GRYLLIDAE 

 The first six species recorded below are probably all adventive 

 in Hawaii, though some of them may have reached the islands 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XLI, p. 269, (1915). 



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