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The living nymph of the final instar is of a very pale greenish of 

 the same tint as the underside of the Pipturus-leaves, but after death, 

 the greenish tint changes into pale yellowish. The apical lobe of the 

 head, the legs, etc., are whitish translucent; antennae, clypeus, etc., 

 tinged with orange. On the fore and middle femora there is a pale 

 fuscous-red subapical annulus and a similar bright red one on the 

 hind pair. The lateral margins of the hind lobe of the head and the 

 hind margin (medially interrupted) of the pronotum, a short line 

 exteriorly and one interiorly, on the tegminal pads, greenish-grey. 

 Abdomen above with an irregular dark fuscous stripe down the mid- 

 dle, a bright red spot on most of the segments in the middle. 



9. snbnifus (White). 



Nabis subrufus F. B. White, 1877, A. M. N. H., (4) XX, 112. 

 A^. oscillans Blackburn, 1888, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., (2) 



nj, 352. 



Reduviolus subrufus Kirkaldy, 1902, Fatm. Haw., Ill, 156, 



PI. 5, f. 37- 



R. arrogans Kirkaldy, 1908, P. Haw. E. S. I. 



EHminating truvrulcnfus and koclcnsis, my remarks in the 

 "Fauna Plawaiiensis" still hold. The emargination of the hind 

 margin of the pronotum is a variable character, as I have taken 

 specimens off the same tree, some with truncate margin and 

 some with emarginate ; the amount of infuscation and the mem- 

 branal venation also vary. Arrogans is, now I think, simply a 

 darker form with s mpler venation. I separate, however, as a 

 variety (melemele), a rather polished, yellow form from A-Iaui, 

 (Flaleakala), which seems to have all the specific characters of 

 subrufus, but of which I liave seen only females. 



R. subrufus is distributed all over Oahu, Alolokai, Maui and 

 Hawaii (and probably Lanai), in the forest region, and fre- 

 quents Ohia lehua (Na)ii polymorpha). 



The type of subrufus was from Oahu, that of oscillans from 

 Flawaii (Kilauea), and that of arrogans from the Molokai Mts., 

 but I have taken an identical specimen of the latter with typical 

 ones in Hawaii (Kilauea). 



1 have figured the male hook (f. 4). 



10. sJiarpianuis Kirkaldy. 



Rcdui'iolus sharpianns Kirkaldy, 1902, Faun. Haw., IH, 156, 

 PI. 5. f- 36. 



I have not seen a male of this species, which 's resf'cted to 

 Kauai. The coloring and short antennae will distinguish it 

 among the subrufits-senes. 



