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A New Hawaiian Delphacid (Homoptera). 
(Presented at the meeting of June 2, 1921.) 
BYS SE NUR. 
Nothorestias swezeyi sp. n. Figures 1 and 2. 
Male. Brachypterous; length, 2.4 mm.; tegmen, 1 mm. Vertex very 
slightly wider than long, apex round, projecting beyond eyes, base slightly 
in front of middle of eyes; length of frons twice the width, median 
carina forking a little beyond the middle; antennae reaching slightly 
beyond base of clypeus, second segment 1.8 times the length of first. 
Tegmina short, reaching to posterior margin of third abdominal segment, 
coriaceous. 
Opening of pygofer about as long as wide, round, ventral margin 
preduced into a short, stout, pointed process; anal emargination large, 
anal angles rounded; armature of diaphragm forming a rounded projec- 
tion reaching nearly to orifice of diaphragm,- shagreen. Anal segment 
large, anal spines large, bases far apart, eurved, diverging, their bases 
swollen. Genital styles flat, outer margin concave on apical half, convex 
on basal half, inner margin slightly sinuous, apex truncate, corners 
slightly produced, outer one more so than inner. Aedeagus flattened 

Fig. 1 and 2. Pygofer, full view, and aedeagus, lateral view, left side 
view, left side of Nothorestias swezeyi. 
laterally, deep at base, orifice at apex which is slightly turned yentrad, 
five or six small spines forming a circle near orifice. 
Dark brown or nearly black; antennae, legs and dorsal part of apex 
of abdomen light. Tegmina dark brown, a black mark at apex of clavus. 
Female. Brachypterous; length 2.6 mm.; tegmen 1 mm. 
Similar in color to male, but the legs are darker. 
Described from two males and one female from Makaha, 
Oahu, 1500 feet elevation, off Aspidinm sp. (Swezey, March 
27, 1921). Type deposited in the H. S. P. A. Collection, 
No. 1001. 
Proce. Haw. Ent. Soe., V, No. 1, October, 1922. 

