1 62 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



proportions are : second segment about twice the first and about one-half longer than 

 the third, which is a trifle longer than the incrassate fourth. 



Hab. " Very rare. Under stones on Haleakala, Mauai, at an elevation of 

 5000 ft." (White). — Lanai, 2000 — 3000 ft. (January, February), Perkins. — Molokai 

 Mts. 3000 — 4500 ft. (May, June, August), Perkins. I have examined 22 specimens. 



(2) Scphoi'a calvus, White. 



Cymus calviis White, 1881, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 56. 



This species, which I do not know, must be close to S. crinigcr. White mentions 

 that a specimen of this, too, has one of the antennae malformed. 



Hab. Oahu. "Very rare. Under stones on the mountains near Honolulu, at an 

 elevation of about 2000 ft." (White). 



Subfam. A S TA COP IN A E. 

 ( = Lygaeinae auctt.) 



Nysius Dallas. 



Nysms Dallas, List Hem. 11. p. 331. 



A remarkable cosmopolitan genus — probably of old geologic origin' — of some 

 seventy-five to eighty species, of which nearly one-half are e.xclusively (so far) insular, 

 five having been recorded from New Zealand and Tahiti. White and Blackburn have 

 described 13 species from our fauna and Mr Perkins has collected a fair number of 

 specimens, many of which appear to represent new species. Unfortunately I have not 

 been able to see a single type except N. coeiiu/ostis Stal, so that 1 have, for the present, 

 omitted consideration of these variable and inconspicuous forms. I merely describe 

 three which appear to me to be indubitably new. 



( I ) N^ysiiis oc/iriasis, sp. nov. 



Pale flavous ; apical half of fourth rostral segment, sterna medianly, femoral macu- 

 lations, etc., black ; eyes and pronotal punctures reddish-brown ; elytra pale cinereo- 

 flavous, semihyaline, nervures pale flavescent ; membrane yellowish-hyaline. Sterna 

 strongly punctured with reddish-brown ; stink orifices pale luteo-testaceous. Compara- 

 tively superficially and sparsely punctured, keels of pronotum and scutellum impunctate ; 

 head and pronotum pubescent, except tylus and pronotal callosities. Bucculae nearly 

 touching base of head, basal half depressed ; first segment of rostrum a trifle longer than 



' Five species are recorded by Scudder from the Oligocene of Colorado. 



