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Hawaiian islands. Of the two remaining species, the European cerimis, 

 Fieb., and the North American liiridelhis, Fieb., I know nothing per- 

 sonally, but I imagine, from an expression used by Fieber, that the 

 former may perhaps belong to the second or three-veined section. 

 All the species are rather closely allied, hence the following attempt at 

 a tabulation of the species known to me may prove useful : 



1 (8). MembransB venis 3° 4° que coalesceutibus et cellulam parram formantibus. 



2 (3). Pronoto sat angusto lateribus sinuatis; callo lobi antici posterius longitudi- 



naliter impresso ; antennis (articulo 1° excepto) pallidis ; corpore majore, 

 majus piloso, colore dilutiore ... muudulus, B.W. 



3 (4). Pronoto minus angusto lateribus rcctis vel rotundatis ; antennis apicem 



versus infuscatis ; corpore minore, minus piloso, colore obscuriore. 



4 (7). Pronoto lateribus rectis vel subrotundatis. 



5 (6). Membrana venis crassis distiuctis ; pronoto lobo postico in medio longitudi- 



naliter distincte suleato ; corpore minus piloso, majus nitido... ^"' 



continuus, n. sp. 



6 (5). Membrana venis gracilibus subindistinctis ; pronoto lobo postico longitudi- 



naliter minus distincte suleato ; corpore majus piloso minus nitido .. 



sodalis, B.W. . 



7 (4). Pronoto sat lato lateribus distincte rotundatis ; callo fovea parva postice in- 



structo ; impressions transversali pronoti mediocri ... Brouniamis, B.W. 



8 (1). Membrana} venis liberis, baud coalesceutibus. 



9 (10). Pronoto lateribus rectis; membrana venis (la excepta) sat indistinctis ; 



cuneo externe roseo . censors, n. sp. 



10 (9). Pronoto lateribus plus minus rotundatis. 



11 (14). Membrana venis sat distinctis, in utroque scxu completa. 



12 (13)- Minor ; pronoto nigro nitido iicolor, B.W. 



13 (12). Major; pronoto rufescente-brunneo, subopaco... rufescens, Costa,. 



14 (11). Membrana venis indistinctissimis. 



15 (16). Colore obscuriore, opaco ; scutello distincte excavato ; membrana feminae 



subabbreviata Poioeri, n. sp. 



16 (15). Colore pallido, nitido ; scutello vix excavato ; membrana in utroque sexu 



completa clarus, n. sp. 



The new species mentioned above may be thus briefly described : 

 2. Caediastethus continutjs, 71. sp. 



C. rufescenti similis sed angustior, obscurior, majus niiidus et pulescentia minus 

 vestitus ; pronoto lateribus majus rectis; antennis crassiorihus ; membrana venis 

 crassioribiis, S'' 4f^que prope basin coalesceniibus et cellulam parvam triangularem 

 formantibus. Long. 2 mm. 



Madeira (Wollaston). Several specimens. 



3. CARDIASTETHrS CONSOES, 11. sp. 



Luteus, capiillis long is pallidis vestitus; capite, pronoto antice et postice, ab- 



domineque dilute rirfo- vel aurantio-fuscis ; scutello obscuriore ; cuneo externe late 



roseo; elgtris plus minus lev iter fusco-iiebulosis ; antennis articulo load tipicem 



uscescente, 2^ parte tertia apicalifusco-nigro, Z'^ fusco-brunneo ; membrana dilute 



