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differ in any important numner from the male doi^cribed I)}'' 

 Sharp. 



Plagithmysus giffardi Perkins. 



I think it possible that there were two species contained in 

 the eight examples on Avhich P. sulpliurcscens was originally 

 described. Most of the examples taken were fonnd on Urera, 

 in which tree it was l)reeding; some had to be kept alive in 

 order to become matnre. Two or three specimens, however, 

 Avere eaptnred on the wing in a slightly different locality and 

 it is possible that these were the same as the form I snbse- 

 qnently described as P. giffardi. Both in the diagnosis and in 

 the English description, Dr. Sharp refers to the "rnfescent" or 

 "fnlvotestaceous" area at the base of the elytra, and this accords 

 with my recollection of the specimens obtained on I vera. The 

 iignre in the 'Tanna liawaiiensis" does not show these mark- 

 ings and may have been made from one of the examples taken 

 en the wing and likely to be fjiff'ardi. In the remarks on varia- 

 tion. Dr. Sharp refers to a rednction of tlie black color, bnt not 

 to its extension in any of the specimens. Althongh I have in 

 the past had many specimens of giffardi. and still have a score 

 left, I have seen none with the elytral markings of sulphares- 

 ceiis. A]\ tlie former were from Myrsine (now known as Sut- 

 ton ia) . 



Clytarlus indecens n. sp. 



Head and pronotum dull red, sometimes nearly entirely suffused with 

 black, the femora not much different from these in color, generally of a 

 browner tint ; hind tibiae more yellow, paler than the femora, distinctly 

 dark on about the apical third or fourth. Antennae for the most part 

 testaceous, and nearly concolorous with the elytra. The general appear- 

 ance is that of C. modcstiis Sharp, but under a moderate lense the pro- 

 notum and elytra appear glabrous, while under a compound microscope 

 it is seen tliat a short seta springs from each of the elytral punctures. 

 There is no pattern of any sort formed by pubescence and the elytra 

 are densely, somewhat strongly, rugulosely punctured, the sculpture 

 distinct even at the sides and on the apical portions. Two slightly raised 

 parallel lines extend from the base to beyond the middle of the wing- 

 cases, and another pair outwardly and parallel to these from tlie neigh- 



