172 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(i) Eysarcoris insidaris, Dallas. 



Pentatoma insularis Dallas, 1851, List, i. p. 228. 



Hab. "Sandwich Isles" (Dallas). [Is this perhaps the Isle in the S. Pacific?] 

 Only known to me by the type in the British Museum. 



Subfam. CYDNINAE. 



Geotomus Mulsant and Rey. 



Geotoiuus Muls. Rey, 1866, Punaises France, i. p. 34. , 



Almost cosmopolitan. 



( I ) Gcotonnis pygniaeus, Dallas. 



Geotomus pygmaeits Dallas, 1851, List Hem. i. p. 129; Signoret, 1883, Ann. Soc. 



Ent. France (6) iii. p. 51, PI. iii. fig. 160. 

 G. jiuundus F. B. White, 1877, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. iio. 

 G. siibtj'istis F. B. White, op. cit. p. i i i. 



This variable little species has been recorded from India, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo, Cochin China, Celebes, New Caledonia, etc., under a great number of names. 



H.\B. " Widely distributed and pretty common, living under stones and about the 

 roots of herbage, not confined to the mountains" (Blackburn). Dark van Flawaii, 

 Kona, 1800, 3000 and 4000 ft. (September) ; Kilauea (August). — Molokai coast (April) ; 

 mountains, 4000 ft. (June) ; Makakupaia (July). — Oahu, Halemano, 2000 ft. (February), 

 Perkins. I have seen 10 Hawaiian specimens. Pale var. Hawaii, Kilauea, 4000 ft. 

 (August), Perkins. One example only. 



Subfam. SCUTELLERINAE. 

 CoLEOTicHus A. White. 

 Coleotichits A. White, 1839, Mag. Nat. Hist. 11. p. 541. 

 Distributed thoughout Australian Region, also from Formosa and the Moluccas. 



(i) Colcofichns blackbnrniac, F. B. White. 



Coleotichiis blackburniae F. B. White, 1881, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 52. 

 C. blackbnrni Leth. and Sev., 1893, Cat. gen. Hemipt. i. p. 15. 

 Plate V. fig. 49. 



This handsome species was described from a specimen preserved in alcohol. 

 When mature, the upper surface is refulgent emerald-green with a well-marked crimson 



