33^ Occasioiia! /\jpcrs Bcniicc /'. Hisliop Musciiin 



Saussure's ^enus Diploptcra lias one year of ])rit)riiy over 

 IJruniier's I^leutheroda. under which generic name this species is 

 generallx' recorded in the Hterature of Hawaii. 



The species is common and injurious in the Tcrritor}', infesting 

 l)articuhudy the .Monterey Cypress trees { Ciiprcssiis iiiacrocarpa 

 Hartweg") and doing- particular damage hy gnawing away the hark. 

 Like a numher of other species, it is apparently adventive from the 

 islands to the south. 



C0RYDIIN.\E 



Euthyrrhapha pacifica (Coquebert) 



1804. Blatta pacifica Coquehert, III. Iconogr. Ins.. Ill, p. 91. 

 pi. XXI, fig". I. [Islands of the Pacific Ocean.] 



Honolulu, Hawaii, III, 6, 1904, i $ , [Hebard Coll.]. 

 Kauai, 500 feet. Mil, i, 1908, (W . H. Ashmead). 1$, 

 [U. S. N.M.]. 



This insect probably reached the Hawaiian islands by the same 

 route as the preceding species. 



Holocompsa fulva (Burmeister) 



1838. C[orydia] fulva Burmeister, Handb. Ent., II, Abh. II, 

 pt. I, p. 492. [Egypt.] 



Hilo, Hawaii, XI, 24. 1914, i $ ,"' [Univ. of Hawaii]. 



This specimen, the only one which has been taken in Hawaii, 

 agrees fully with the male described by IJrunner,''* from Khartoum. 

 Kordofan. 



Head with face dark chestnut brown, ocelli and mouthparts slightly 

 paler, eyes blackish. Pronotum mummy-brown, antennae and tegmina 

 slightly paler. Ventral surface of cephalic femora and median and caudal 

 coxae chestnut brown, other portions slightly paler, particularly the tro- 

 chanters and tarsi. 



■''First recorded l)y Illingworth, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, III. p. _'54. 

 (1916). 



'•'Nouv. Syst. BlaU., p. 34^. (1865). 



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