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smaller series taken “in situ’”” on Oahu and Kauai present the 
same tendencies. The representative collections of this Ceram- 
bycid have heretofore been very sparse in individual specimens, 
and in consequence many of the variations noticed from time 
to time have led some to suspect the possibility of more than 
the one species described. Examination and study of a series 
like the present one, however, tends to lessen any such sus- 
picion unless some other important but constant character than 
‘is yet known can be found by further study of larger series 
from all the islands in the archipelago. 
The males of this beetle are easily separated from the 
females by the difference in structure of the mandibles and in 
the shape of the fifth abdominal ventral segment, which in 
the male is well rounded, while in the female it is flattened. 
Among fourteen specimens recently collected on Kauai by 
Mr. O. H.. Swezey was found a small but starved example, 
the mandibles of which indicated the female sex, while the 
fifth ventral segment of the abdomen was that of a male. 
Upon dissection of the genitalia it was found to be a male, 
as suspected. This tends to show that in this variable species 
the use of the ventral segment, when separating the sexes, is 
perhaps more reliable than the mandibles. 
While collecting the Kauai specimens above referred to, 
Mr. Swezey informs me that he observed the eggs of Parandra 
puncticeps inserted into the hard outer surface of the wood of 
a koa trunk, where the bark had loosened from the tree but 
had not yet fallen away, there being space enough beneath the 
bark for the female to perform: the process of oviposition. 
He brought samples of these eggs “in situ” to Honolulu. This 
is believed to be the first record of finding the eggs of this 
interesting Cerambycid. 
