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(5) Orthotyliis daphne, sp. nov. 



Plate V. fig. 24. 



Red, brown and white — variegated. Pubescence mixed ; the pale, silvery hairs 

 being very thick and in little clusters. Head silvery white, a sanguineous inverted 

 V in the centre of vertex. Eyes blackish-brown, antennae sordid testaceous, basal 

 segment more or less sanguineous. Pronotum pale fulvo-fuscous, lateral and posterior 

 margins very narrowly pale livid ; anterior margin (except laterally) sanguineous, 

 broadly bordered posteriorly by pale livid. Scutellum pale greenish-white variegated 

 with livid and sanguineous. Clavus livid fulvous with two long sanguineous streaks on 

 exocorium ; extreme apex (externally) of the latter, white. Cuneus basally white, 

 apically sanguineous. Membrane hyaline, apically fumate, not maculate ; nervures 

 sanguineous. Femora apically sanguineous, rest of legs testaceous, including apical 

 segments of tarsi. Posterior tibiae sometimes dark at extreme apex. V^entral surface 

 sordid testaceous, crenital segments more or less sanofuineous. Rostrum slender, reaching: 

 to intermediate coxae. Second seg-ment of antennae four times as lone as first, twice 

 as long as third and nearly three times as long as fourth. Vertex very slightly narrower 

 at base than the two eyes together. Posterior tibiae five times as long as tarsi, third 

 tarsal segment very slightly longer than second. 



Long. 3 mm. ; lat. i "4 mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kona, 2000 ft. (December). — Lanai, 2000 ft. (December). — Oahu, 

 Waianae Mts., leeside 2000 — 3000 ft. (April) ; Waimea watershed (April) ; Waialua 

 (March). A very beautiful little species of which I have seen i i examples. 



O. daphne, var. nov. kassandra. 



Plate V. fig. 25. 



A melanic form of the above ; head and cuneus silvery white, more or less fumate. 

 Pronotum and elytra rich deep velvety blackish-brown ; clavus somewhat obscure ; a 

 narrow apically narrowing sublateral streak on corium, and the scutellum silvery white, 

 variegated with pale sanguineous. Cuneus apically and the membranal nervures rich 

 sanguineous. Membrane pallid hyaline, apically fumate. Beneath brownish-black, 

 genital segments more or less sanguineous. Legs pallid testaceous, posterior femora 

 above blackish. Tarsi apically fumate. Pubescence as in the type. I have seen two 

 examples. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea (August). — Lanai, 2000 ft. (December). 



F. H. III. 18 



