542 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



L. crassiventris, but the eyes are very small, each only about as large as the terminal 

 joint of the antennae. I suppose the individual to be a feriiale as there is nothing 

 peculiar about the abdomen, the terminal segment being slender conical as in the female 

 of Z. explicandus. The elytra are as long as they are broad ; the head and thorax are 

 considerably more distinctly coriaceous than the elytra ; the other punctuation is very 

 slight. 



Hab. Maui, Haleakala, 5000 ft. iv. 1894 (Perkins). 



(9) Lispinodes crassus, sp. nov. 



Robustus, niger, antennarum basi pedibusque rufis, elytris metasternoque brevibus, 

 illis transversis. Long. 4 mm. 



This is the most robust of the species yet discovered, and has the elytra shorter 

 comparatively than any other, and it is also the one in which the eyes are most reduced 

 in size. The abdomen is not at all flattened but is quite cylindrical : the head looks 

 narrow in comparison with the more robust abdomen ; the antennae are a good deal 

 thickened towards the tip ; the head, thorax and elytra are very distinctly coriaceous, and 

 there is very little other sculpture. This species probably cannot fly. Only two speci- 

 mens have been procured, and they represent the sexes ; the one that I suppose to be 

 the male has the last ventral plate deeply notched, or emarginate, behind, and flattened 

 in front of the emargination. 



The second individual I believe to be a female cxf the same species, though the 

 abdomen is more slender than it is in the supposed male : it has the last ventral plate 

 simple, but the last dorsal has a rather broad longitudinal depression along the middle. 



Hab. Maui, Haleakala, 5000 ft. in. and iv. 1894 (Perkins). 



(10) Lispinodes gerinamis, sp. nov. 



Elongatus, piceus, antennarum basi pedibusque rufis ; parcius punctatus ; elytris 

 subquadratis. Long. 5 mm. 



Of this we have only one specimen : it is longer than L. crassus and the elytra are 

 not so short. The sex is no doubt the same as that of the individual I have con- 

 sidered the $ of L. crassus. The terminal segment is elongate, and is narrow at the 

 extremity ; the last dorsal plate is slightly impressed on the middle at the tip, and the 

 last ventral has likewise a depression at the tip. 



Hab. Hawaii, Hilo, found on the decaying stem of a tree Lobelia, 2000 ft. 

 I. 1896 (Perkins). 



