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have everything reversed, but it would take too long to enter into 

 a detailed discussion here, and I have recently sketched my own 

 views on this subject.* 



In the Homoptera, the tree is soon divided into two, the right- 

 hand branch comprising the Aphididse and the Fulgoridse, the 

 latter giving ofP the Aleyrodidge! The left main branch divides 

 into three, (1) Psyllida^ and Coccidfe; (2) Cercopidse and Ci- 

 cadidse; (3) Jassida?. 



Xow if there is any group which is apparently compact, it is 

 the Sternorhynchous Homoptera; yet Handlirsch derives the 

 Aleyrodida? from the Fulgoridne, placing both in the same main 

 branch as the Aphida^ placing all far away from the 'Tsylli- 

 da?" and the Coccidse !, while the Cicadidse are derived from the 

 Cercopidse, etc. ! T do not think that anyone who has studied 

 the Homoptera will agree with this for a moment, the more as 

 it is the wildest theory and is not based on any concrete founda- 

 tion. 



I think that T am therefore justified in declaring invalid, 

 Handlirscli's theories on Hemiptera, ancient and modern, almost 

 in toto. 



Further Notes on Hemiptera, Chiefly Hawaiian. 



BY G. W. KTRKAI,T)Y. 



(a) Hawaiian Hemipteea. 

 NesopJcias artemisiae sp. nov. 



^ Yellowish testaceous; the tegmlna (except a broad basal band 

 of testaceous) black. The abdomen is varyingly marked with blackish, 

 and slightly also above, with yellowish. 



2 Pale yellowish testaceous, a little yellower on the abdomen in 

 part, and sometimes the abdomen is a little marked with black. 



In structure, this species is very like the species on Dnhautia, but 

 the tegmina are longer (reaching to, or a little beyond, the apex of the 

 abdomen). The genitalia ( ^ ) are somewhat on the plan of Neososi/diie 

 ralUanliae, but the pygophor is more elongate, when viewed end-on, the 

 genital styles are narrower basally, the interior emargination extend- 

 ing from the base to the apex. 



Length: $ scarcely 2 mill. ; 5 2 ^/j mill. 

 Hab. : Oahu, Waianae IMountains, 2,(^00 feet, on Artemisia 

 australis (Swezey, Fullaway and Kotinsky). 



*Canad. Ent, XLII, pp. 83, 84 (1910). 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, No. 3, May, 1910. 



