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CHELISOCHIDAE 

 Chelisochinae 



Sparattina nigrorufa (Burr) (Plate xxvi, 8 and 9.) 



1902. Slf'ongiphora] nigrorufa lUirr. Termes. Fuzet., XXV, 

 p. 4, pi. XX, fig-. 3. [ <J , 5 ; Stephansort. Astrolabe Bay 

 and Simbang, Gulf of Huon, Xew Guinea.] 



Hilo. Hawaii. \'III, 21, 1912, (O. H. Swezey ; Hilo Sugar 

 Company Plantation), i 5 . i 9 , [H. S. P. A.[. 



Waiakea, Hawaii, HI, 31, 1916, ( O. H. Swezey), iS, 1$, 

 [Hebard Coll.]. 



Careful consideration of the species of several large genera 

 was necessary before we could place this insect. The specimens 

 examined agree closely with the description and comments by 

 Burr on his Spoiigiphora nigrorufa that he assigned later to 

 Spongovostox,-' though the evidence indicates that Burr assigned 

 other congeneric species to Chaetospania. We have strong evi- 

 dence to show further that Sparattina, placed by Burr in synonymy 

 under Chaetospania, is valid, including Papuan and Malayan 

 species that he referred to Chaetospania and other genera. 



Further study of papers by Burr shows plainly that his con- 

 cepts of the genera involved were decidedly confused. The ma- 

 terial here recorded belongs to the Chelisochinae, as does another 

 Sumatran specimen before us apparently representing a difi^erent 

 species of the same genus. Material of two Malagasy species 

 in the Philadelphia Collections, belonging to Chaetospania,-- are. 

 on the other hand, referable to the Labiinae. Thus the species 

 placed by Burr in the genus Chaetospania are evidently referable 

 to at least two distinct genera, belonging to different families. 



The species may be readily recognized by the figures here 



'' Since writing the above we find that Burr, in 1915, referred his 

 nigrorufa, without comment, to his Chelisochid genus Hamaxas, Tidschr. 

 voor Ent, LVIII, p. 118. It appears very possible that Hamaxas may prove 

 to be a synonym of Sparattina. Genus monotypic. Genotype. — Sparattina 

 flavicoUis Verhoeff, from Java. 



"'Genus monot\pic. Genot\'pe. — Chaefosfaiiia iiioniata Karsch, from 

 Madagascar. 



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