322 Occasioiuil Papers Bcniicc P. Plshof^ Miisciim 



The series before lis shows iiuhvi(Uial variation in the amount 

 of russet entering;- into the g'eneral coloration. Intensification and 

 recession of coloration is also marked. In the maximum re- 

 cessive examples the distal portion of the abdomen is only very 

 slightly darker than the other portions. 



S/^i\-iiiiciis lixamincd : 13. 5 males and <S females. 



Hawaii, { \. Koebele). 3(5, 39, puralypcs. [Terr. lid. Ag"r. 



and llebard Coll.]. 

 Ookala, Hawaii, X, 18, 1908, (O. IT. Swezey), 1$. paratypc, 



[H. S. P. A.]. 

 Oahu, (A. Koel)ele), i9, paraiypr. [Terr. lid. Agr.]. 

 Hauula Valley, Oahu, V'lII, 2, 1918, ( O. H. Swezey), 1$, 



I 5, type and allotype, [Hebard Coll.]. 

 Opaeula Gulch, Oahu, III, 30, 1913, ( O. H. Sw^ezey), i9, 



parafype, [H. S. P. A.]. 

 Makaleha \alley, Oahu, XII, 13, 1919, (O. H. Swezey), 



I 9 . paratype, [H. S. P. A.]. 

 Kuliouou X'alley, Oahu, M. 25, 1916, (P. H. Timberlake), 



19, paratype, [Timberlake Coll.]. 



Prolabia arachidis (Yersin) 



i860, fortieala arachidis Yersin, Ann. Sci. Ent. France, (3), 

 VIII, p. 509, pi. X, figs. 2)2> to 35. [ [Adventive at] 

 Marseilles, France.] 



Kaimuki, Oahu, I, 8, 1917, (O. H. Swezey; in case of cantied 

 tomatoes from Oregon), 2 9 , [H. S. P. A.] ; III, 14, 1914, 

 (O. H. Swezey; in box of apples), 1^,29, [I I. S. P. A. 

 and Hebard Coll.]. 



Honolulu, Oahu. ( \an Dine), i 9 .'" [V . S. X. ^I.]. 



This species, which has been widely distributed by commerce 

 in tropical and subtroijical regions, is apparently a recent intro- 

 duction in Hawaii. 



""This specimen was recorded Ijv I'urr as Lid>ia aracliidis, Proc. U. S. 

 Xat. Mus., XXXVIII, p. 453, (1910), constitinin.n the first record for the 

 species from the Hawaiian Islands. 



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