496 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(7) Nesopetinus, sp. ? 



A single specimen from Kilauea, Hawaii, departs very decidedly from the long 

 series from Kona ; it is a female, and is much more 'densely punctured; the thorax is 

 rather differently shaped, and the specimen less flattened ; the serial punctuation ot the 

 elytra much less obliterated. 



I doubt whether this can be an extreme variety of N. metallescens ; in some 

 respects it approaches A^. omissus. 



Hab. Hawaii. Kilauea, July 1895 (Perkins). D. S. 



(8) Nesopetinus varius, Sharp. 



Brachypeplus varius Sharp, Tr. ent. Soc. London, 188 1, p. 512. 



" Sat latus, depressus, fusco-testaceus, supra subaenescens, subtiliter pubescens, 

 antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis, tarsis iuscis ; prothorace fortiter transverso, crebre 

 punctato ; elytris subimpressis, seriatim punctatis, interstitiis obsolete punctulatis. 

 Long. 4, lat. 1 4 mm. 



This is an ally of A"^. metallescens, but the sexual distinctions of sculpture are only 

 slight and the elytra are always variegate ; it is decidedly less depressed. The irregu- 

 larity of surface of the elytra is only slight and is sometimes entirely absent. 



The species is apparently rare as we have received only 14 examples. 



Hab. Hawaii. Kona; beaten from trunks and branches of various trees, 3000 ft. 

 (no. 243); from flowers of Freycinetia, about 2000 ft. (no. 309); above Hilo, 1800 — 

 2000 ft.; Kilauea; (Perkins): Mauna Loa, 4000 ft. (Blackburn). D. S. 



(9) Nesopetinus pusi/lus, sp. nov. 



Fusco-testaceus, antennis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace lortiter transverso, 

 lateribus anguste explanatis, angulis posterioribus fere rectis ; elytris obsolete seriatim 

 punctatis. Long. 4, lat. i| mm. 



Mas., capite thoraceque crebre subtiliter punctatis, hand nitidis. 



Fem., thorace parce fortius punctato, nitido. 



Closely allied to N. iliscedens, but rather smaller and more feebly formed, without 

 any trace of metallic lustre, the punctuation in the male more obsolete, and the hind 

 angles of the thorax less obtuse. The female has a smaller thorax than the female of 

 A^. disrcdens, with the hind angles sharper, and the serial punctuation on the elytra 

 obsolete. The pygidium of the sexes is of almost the same formation as in A^. discedens. 



We have only a small series of five specimens, but there is 1 think no doubt as to 

 the species being distinct. 



Hab. Maui, Haleakala, 2000 — 3000 ft., 1901 (no. 826, Perkins). D. S. 



