150 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



one-fourth longer than third. Anterior lobe of pronotum longitudinally sulculate near 

 the base, sides rounded, anteriorly strongly acutely tuberculate, anterior margin slightly 

 roundly emarginate. Posterior lobe (between the spines) nearly three times as wide as 

 the anterior margin of pronotum ; obscurely tricarinate longitudinally anteriorly, densely 

 but very finely punctured ; posterolateral angles short but acute ; base truncate in the 

 middle. Scutellum bluntly rounded posteriorly, subtuberculate. Abdomen beneath 

 strongly carinate longitudinally. 



$. Antennae not dilated or thickened. 



$. Abdomen somewhat dilated'; antennae slender, posterior tibiae not tumid. 



Long, (to apex of elytra which slightly overlap apex of abdomen) Z ijy "■'"''•' 

 % 14I mm. ; lat. pron. t 3 mm., % 3^ mm. ; lat. max. abd. $ 2^ mm., $ 4I mm. 



Hab. Oahu, Honolulu Mts. (May, 1900), Perkins. Three examples (two males, 

 one female). 



Subfam. REDUVIINAE. 

 ( = Acanthaspidae Leth. and Sev.) 



Acaiithaspidae Leth. and Sev., Cat. gen. Hemipt. in. p. 95. 



This, the typical division of the great family Reduviidse, is represented by a single 

 genus. 



Alloeocranum Reuter. 



Microcleptes Stal, 1866, Oefv. Vet. Akad. Forh. p. 240 (preocc). 



Microc /eptes suhg. Alloeocraiiiim Reuter, 188 i, Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xii. p. 332. 



Two species are known, one from Northern India, the other insular. 



(i) Allococramnn biaiiniilipes, M. and S. 



Opsicoetus biannulipes Montrouzier and Signoret, 1861, Ann. Soc. Ent. France 



(4) I- P- 69. 

 Reduvius lanigcr Butler, 1876, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvii. p. 411. 



Plate IV. fig. 17. 



Hab. Oahu, Waianae Mts. (April), Perkins, one example, almost certainly very 

 recently accidentally imported ; also recorded from Viti Isles, New Caledonia, Philippines, 

 Reunion, Rodriguez, Malacca [and Cuba(?)]. 



This species was determined by my friend Mr A. L. Montandon ; the genus has 

 not been figured before. 



' The abdomen in each specimen was somewhat shrivelled, precluding description of the genital 

 segments. 



