Hchard — Dcriiiaptera and Ortliuptcra of Haicaii 331 



Opportunity to examine Hawaiian material has proved beyond 

 question the synonymy indicated above. The description of hospcs 

 is insufficient to make determination possible from it alone and the 

 appended statement by Brunner, that the species is allied to con- 

 spcrso, misled us completely; Phyllodromia coiispersa Brunner is 

 a South American member of the genus Neoblattella, referable to 

 the Group Blatellae, and Symploce is a member of the group 

 Ischnopterae, the genus showing- an Epilamprine tendency. 



Perkins apparently did not have a specimen of the female, 

 which on account of its deeper color and short, cjuadrate teg'mina, 

 has a very different general facies from the male. 



Illing'worth has pul:)lis]ied some interesting notes on this 

 species.-^ 



Oahu, II, 10, 1914, (from Illingworth), 19, [U. S. N. M.] ; 

 III, 1913. (from Illingworth), 15, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Honolulu, Oahu, \'I, 1901, (W. H. Ashmead), 1$, [Hebard 

 Coh.]. 



Length of body $ 11.1-12.8, 9 11 ; length of pronotum $ 2.9-3.2, 

 93.3; width of pronotum (53.7-3.8,94; length of tegmen $ ii-3- 

 12.4, 9 3.5 ; width of tegmen $ 3.3-3.8, 9 3 mm. 



Loboptera sakalava (Saussure) 



1891. T[ciiuwptcry.v] sakalaza Saussure, Soc. Ent. Zurich, 



VI, p. 2^. [ 9 , Madagascar.] 

 1899. Lohoptcra c.vtranca Perkins, Fauna Hawaiiensis, II, 



p. 6. [(5,9: on the coast, Alaui, and Hilo, Hawaii.] 



Comparison with the original description and material of saka- 

 lava from the Comoro Islands and German East Africa, in the col- 

 lection of the Academy of X'atural Sciences of Philadelphia, ofifers 

 full proof of the synonymy indicated above. In addition, a female 

 is at hand from Tahiti, taken June 6, 1906, by O. E. Brenner, and 

 now in the collection of the United States National Museum. 



We refer the species to the genus Loljoptera, as comparison 



"° Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, III, p. 138, (1915). 



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