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   Coleotichits 
  hhchburnide 
  F. 
  B. 
  White. 
  (^^*) 
  

  

  This 
  probably 
  endemic 
  Scutellerine 
  is 
  the 
  handsomest 
  of 
  

   Hawaiian 
  Insects. 
  It 
  is 
  found 
  principally 
  on 
  koa 
  trees 
  

   (Acacia 
  koa), 
  on 
  the 
  leaf-like 
  phyllodes 
  on 
  which 
  it 
  lays 
  its 
  

   eggs. 
  While 
  Oechalia 
  is 
  quiet 
  and 
  a 
  death-feigner, 
  Coleotichus 
  

   whirrs 
  off 
  with 
  a 
  tremendous 
  racket 
  and 
  a 
  great 
  speed, 
  when 
  

   disturbed. 
  It 
  is 
  apparently 
  vegetarian. 
  

  

  The 
  ova 
  are 
  very 
  different 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  Oechalia, 
  being 
  

   golden 
  green 
  (yellowish 
  white 
  in 
  alcohol), 
  not 
  appreciably 
  

   sculptured 
  and 
  without 
  an 
  operculum. 
  They 
  are 
  deposited 
  in 
  

   batches 
  of 
  about 
  19, 
  usually 
  1 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  6 
  around 
  that 
  

   and 
  12 
  around 
  these. 
  They 
  are 
  roundly 
  hexagonal. 
  Their 
  

   height 
  is 
  about 
  1.155 
  mill., 
  diameter 
  from 
  side 
  to 
  side 
  1.154 
  

   mill., 
  from 
  angle 
  to 
  angle 
  1.442 
  mill. 
  Beyond 
  a 
  sparse, 
  very 
  

   minute 
  granulation 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  sculpture 
  visible 
  x. 
  118. 
  (fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  f, 
  

  

  2 
  Ovum 
  of 
  Coleotichus 
  blackburniae. 
  

  

  3 
  Head 
  of 
  nymph 
  of 
  blackburniae. 
  

  

  4 
  Head 
  of 
  imagfo 
  of 
  blackbumiiu.. 
  

  

  h 
  

  

  First 
  instar 
  (?) 
  [perhaps 
  second] 
  Head, 
  nota 
  and 
  coriaceous 
  

   parts 
  of 
  abdomen 
  blackish, 
  the 
  rest 
  sanguinious, 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  

   infuscate 
  apex 
  of 
  tarsi, 
  etc. 
  Rounded, 
  very 
  convex 
  dorsally, 
  

  

  (18a)Schouteden 
  in 
  his 
  valuable 
  Monographs 
  of 
  Coleotichus 
  SinA 
  of 
  the 
  

   Scutellerinae, 
  writes 
  this 
  "'blackburni." 
  It 
  was, 
  however, 
  named 
  after 
  

   Mrs. 
  Blackburn 
  and 
  was 
  published 
  as 
  written 
  above. 
  

  

  