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nate, lateral margins concavely widening towards the base, very rap- 

 idly near.it. the postero-lateral angles prominent and acute (the tips 

 a little blunt); hind margin about twice as wide as the fore; calli 

 insignificant. First segment of the labium not quite extending to the 

 base of the head. 



Length: S 2V2 mill. ; 9 31/0-4 mill. 



Hub.: Kauai, Liline and Kealia (Terrv) ; Hawaii, Papai- 

 kon, Ilonokaa and Honomn (Swezey). 



Found on banana trash (Terry) and in borered sugar-cane 

 (Swezey). Udie species, which is of course not endemic, is prob- 

 ably predaceons. 



Thr'ipliJeps pumlJio Champion. 



1900, P). ('. A. Ilet. IT, :520 and :}i>T. 



Comi)aratively recently, an Anthocorid new to these islands, 

 Init evidently not endemic, has been found around Honolulu. It 

 agrees almoj^t perfectly with Champion's description, which, 

 slightly altered in phraseology, runs as follows : 



"Ovate, sparsely pubescent, shining nigropiceous above, paler, be- 

 neath; the anteocular portion of the head, the labium, antennae, and 

 legs testaceous: the tegmina testaceous, with the cuneus slightly in- 

 fuscate, the membrane pale; the venter ferruginous. Head short and 

 broad, the eyes very large; antennae moderately long, 2nd segment 

 stouter and much longer than the 3rd. Pronotum with the sides 

 obliquely converging from the base, the anterior angles rounded; 

 rugosely punctured, the hind lobe depressed on the disk in front, the 

 fore lobe almost smooth behind. Scutellum transversely rugulose. 

 Tegmina with the clavus sparsely and very coarsely, and the other 

 parts closely and finely punctured. Orifice of the stink-glands very 

 long and curved. 



Length: $ 12-3 mill. 



Hab. : Guatemala, near the city (( 'hampion). 



One specimen. Allied to T. fvipimcfatus, but smaller, the 

 pronotum less rugose, tlie clavus sparsely pimctured ; the corimn 

 and endiolium much more finely punctate." 



The Hawaiian exam])les diifer only by the fact that the head 

 is, in mature individuals, entirely dark piccous. 



(b) Remarks ox Say's HpniiPTEEors Gkxera and 



SuBGEJv'ERA. 



In the Ilemiptera, Say proposed only two genera and two 

 subgenera, of which Ascra and Nerilira are well known. 



