422 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



Hab. Oahu, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii. — Oahu and Hawaii, at considerable elevations 

 (Blackburn). — Hawaii, Kona, 4000 ft. ; Maui, Haleakala, 5000 ft. and over ; Lanai 

 3000 ft. (Perkins). Widely distributed over the world. 



CoLovocERA Motschoulsky. 



Cholovocera Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. 11. 1838, p. 177 \_ = Coluocej-a, Mun. Cat. iii. 

 p. 905]. 



(i) Colovocera madcrae Wollaston. 



Colovoccra madcrae Wollaston, Ins. Mader. p. 180 and PI. X. fig. i. 



We have a single Colovocera from Oahu. A comparison of it with the type of 

 C. madcrae Woll. shows no character clearly separating the two specimens. The Oahu 

 specimen is distinctly larger and paler, being a pale yellowish-testaceous. The elytra 

 are decidedly acuminate apically, but so are those of the type, which I consider is 

 represented rather too broad and rounded posteriorly in Wollaston's figure. 



In all structural characters the specimens agree. The head is large and broad; the 

 eyes lateral, consisting each of si.x separate facets, with some dark pigment lying between 

 and apparently under some of them. The prothora.x is short and broadest at the base. 

 A few punctures can just be made out on the elytra under a high power. The prosternal 

 process is prominent, broadened and not bent up posteriorly. The mesosternum 

 consists of a short transverse piece, transversely concave, cut off straight in front (before 

 this is a sloping portion with two shallow impressions receiving the front co.xae) ; the 

 metasternum has two striae curving round behind the middle co.xae, and the first 

 abdominal segment has two diverging striae curving behind the hind coxae. 



The elytra are not soldered together, but examination has revealed absolutely no 

 trace of wings ; moreover the metanotum as a firmly chitinised piece does not .e.xist, but 

 is entirely membranous. I have examined several specimens of Colovocera formicaria 

 Motsch., and found in all respects the same condition in all of them. 



Hab. Oahu, mts. near Honolulu 1900 (Perkins). Madeira, in ants' nests (see 

 Wollaston, 1. c). In the British Museum is a series of specimens from ants' nests, from 

 Port Darwin, Australia, of the same pale colour as our specimen. 



Fam. CRYPTOPHAGIDAE. 



Cryptophilus Reitter. 

 Cryptophilns Reitter, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiv. 1874, p. 381. 



(i) Cryptophilus integer Heer. 

 Telmatopliihis debilis Sh.2Lr^, Trans. Dublin Soc. in. 1885, p. 145. 

 This little insect has now been identified as above, and I believe correctly. It is a 

 widely distributed form, and of no interest in our Fauna. 

 Hab. Oahu (Blackburn) ; Honolulu (Perkins). 



