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  Oodemas 
  yields 
  three 
  species 
  of 
  these 
  brassy 
  weevils 
  and 
  Anothe- 
  

   orus 
  montanus 
  feeds 
  in 
  dead 
  wood 
  of 
  various 
  trees, 
  Acacia, 
  

   Aleurites, 
  and 
  Pisonia. 
  

  

  The 
  interesting 
  Heteramphus 
  filicum 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  stems 
  of 
  tree 
  

   ferns, 
  and 
  no 
  doubt 
  the 
  other 
  species 
  can 
  be 
  obtained 
  on 
  the 
  

   steep 
  sides 
  of 
  Manoa. 
  Three 
  or 
  four 
  species 
  of 
  Xyleborus 
  burrow 
  

   in 
  sickly 
  or 
  dead 
  trees, 
  and 
  probably 
  others 
  remain 
  to 
  be 
  

   discovered. 
  

  

  In 
  Proterhinus, 
  Tantalus 
  is 
  very 
  rich 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  unlikely 
  that 
  

   much, 
  if 
  anything, 
  new 
  will 
  be 
  obtained 
  in 
  this 
  line, 
  though 
  it 
  

   should 
  be 
  said 
  that 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  are 
  yet 
  undescribed. 
  Some 
  of 
  

   the 
  species 
  are 
  excessively 
  difficult 
  to 
  obtain, 
  especially 
  those 
  

   that 
  burrow 
  in 
  the 
  hardest 
  tree 
  trunks 
  and 
  have 
  to 
  be 
  cut 
  out. 
  

   Others 
  are 
  extremely 
  abundant. 
  Some 
  species 
  attack 
  many 
  

   trees 
  even 
  introduced 
  ones, 
  but 
  others 
  are 
  absolutely 
  attached 
  to 
  

   a 
  single 
  kind. 
  Proterhinus 
  ruficornis 
  is 
  local, 
  squamicollis 
  rare; 
  

   obscuricolor, 
  subplanatus, 
  angularis 
  and 
  archaeus 
  are 
  all 
  on 
  

   Straussia; 
  simplex, 
  obscurus 
  and 
  vestitus 
  on 
  various 
  trees, 
  being 
  

   polyphagous; 
  oscillans 
  and 
  vicinus 
  on 
  Koa; 
  pusillus 
  on 
  Pelea; 
  

   dispar 
  on 
  Wikstroemia; 
  blackburni 
  on 
  various 
  trees 
  and 
  ferns; 
  

   deceptor 
  on 
  Hau 
  and 
  some 
  other 
  trees; 
  longulus 
  on 
  tree 
  ferns; 
  

   oahuensis 
  in 
  hard 
  tree 
  trunks 
  ; 
  oxygonias 
  and 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  others 
  as 
  

   yet 
  imperfectly 
  known. 
  Blackburn's 
  P. 
  paradoxus 
  and 
  P. 
  

   oahuensis 
  are 
  the 
  rarest 
  and 
  most 
  desirable 
  species, 
  the 
  former 
  

   not 
  having 
  been 
  found 
  since 
  it 
  was 
  first 
  collected. 
  Two 
  endemic 
  

   Tenebrionids 
  Cistela 
  crassicornis 
  and 
  apicalis 
  occur 
  very 
  rarely, 
  

   and 
  Labetis, 
  a 
  peculiar 
  genus, 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  taken 
  on 
  

   Oahu 
  by 
  Blackburn, 
  should 
  turn 
  up. 
  

  

  Many 
  native 
  Cioidae 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  found, 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  feeding 
  

   on 
  miscropic 
  fungi 
  in 
  dead 
  wood, 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  prefer 
  the 
  large 
  woody 
  

   growths 
  on 
  various 
  trees. 
  Cis 
  alienus 
  and 
  pacificus, 
  especially 
  

   the 
  latter, 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  really 
  native, 
  but 
  the 
  endemic 
  species 
  are 
  

   cognatissimus, 
  tabidus, 
  bicolor, 
  insularis, 
  porcatus, 
  setarius, 
  

   calidus, 
  signatus, 
  roridus, 
  evanescens, 
  and 
  laeticulus; 
  of 
  these 
  

   calidus, 
  insularis 
  and 
  roridus 
  are 
  the 
  least 
  numerous, 
  but 
  none 
  

   are 
  very 
  rare. 
  Two 
  or 
  three 
  species 
  of 
  apterocis 
  are 
  found, 
  

   ephistemoides 
  being 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  commonest 
  of 
  beetles. 
  

  

  Anobiids 
  are 
  not 
  well 
  represented, 
  only 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  

   Mirosternus 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  of 
  Xyletobius 
  and 
  Holcobius 
  being 
  

   found. 
  Their 
  headquarters 
  in 
  Oahu 
  is 
  the 
  Waialua 
  end 
  of 
  

  

  