HEMIPTERA 115 



exterior angles of the latter. Pronotum spotted with black at the base. Propleura 

 clouded with black. Elytra dilute olivaceous-brown (tending to a ruddy brownish tinge 

 towards the lateral margins and the apex), closely and minutely irrorated with blackish- 

 brown, except apically ; a whitish obscure spot near the apex of the clavus, and one or 

 two smaller ones on the corium. Nervures more or less reddish-brown, claval suture 

 pale flavous ; clavus apically black. Legs sordid flavous, spotted with black, tarsi more 

 or less blackish. Head and eyes very slightly wider than pronotum. Eyes about ^th 

 wider than base ot vertex. Vertex apically rounded. Anterior margin of pronotum 

 widely roundly convex, lateral angles roundly obtuse-angled, lateral margins scarce!) 

 reflexed, postero-lateral margin a little longer than the antero-lateral. .Scutellum much 

 shorter than wide. Nervures well-marked, transverse nervures in clavus {these appear 

 to be absent in some European forms). 

 Long, nearly 6 mm., lat. 2\ mm. 



Hab. Kauai, Halemana 4000 ft. (June), Perkins. A single specimen, without 

 abdomen. 



(2) Bythoscopus kaianiauiao, sp. nov. 



Very similar to B. kiikanaroa, but smaller, and the elytra without irrorations. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum coloured as in kn-kanaroa, but less maculate ; a 

 somewhat obscure horseshoe-shaped mark on scutellum, and a slender longitudinal line 

 on vertex, brownish. Elytra dilute olivaceous, a little clouded with brownish-black 

 here and there, nervures mostly dark brownish. Frons more or less ferruginous, 

 clypeus obscure black, with a central and a lateral, slender, line, flavo-ferruginous. 

 Propleura clouded with black. Legs sordid Havous, clouded and spotted with black ; 

 intermediate femora ringed widely near the apex with black. Beneath Havo-ferruginous. 

 Head and eyes very slightly narrower than pronotum, vertex apically rounded. 

 Pronotum, scutellum and nervures as in kukanaroa. Eyes about one-third wider than 

 vertex at base. 



%. Last " abdominal " segment, transverse, sinuately emarginate apically, the 

 middle shortly minutely angularly emarginate, — without teeth. Genital segment very 

 long. 



Long. 5^ mm. (to apex of elytra), lat. 2 mm. 



Hab. Kauai, high plateau (August), Perkins; one specimen only. 



(3) ' Bythoscoptis peregrinus Stal. 



Bythoscopus peregriiucs Stal, 1859. Eugenie's Resa Insekter, p. 291. 



Hab. Oahu (Stal); also recorded from Tahiti, Rio Janeiro, and California. 



