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PAPERS. 



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A New Species of Oodemas from Laysan Island. 



BY D. T. FULLAWAY. 



Oodemas laysanensis n. sp. .• . 



Elongate oval, shining, aeneous black, antennae, troplii and 

 tarsi reddish brown. Rostrnin fairly long and broad, not 

 widened apieally ; dull, subrugonsly punctate. Eyes moderate- 

 ly convex. Antennae with the first funicle joint longer and 

 stonter than the 2nd, the latter much narrower basally, 3rd 

 and following joints round, moniliform, club..greatly expanded. 

 Pronotiim moderately convex, strongly and closely punctured. 

 Elytra conspicuously clothed with short, white setae, the serial 

 punctures remote from one another, the interstices with very 

 conspicuous and numerous fine punctures, the striae towards 

 the apex of elytra deeply impressed. Beneath the metasternum 

 is very coarsely punctured, the abdomen at the base between the 

 hind coxae hardly less coarsely but not so closely, apical seg- 

 ment very finely and closely punctured. 



Length 4 mm. Described from what is presumably a male 

 specimen. The only other specimen taken has the rostrum con- 

 siderably longer and is presumably a female. 



Type specimen in Bishop Museum. 



Habita't : Laysan Island. 



Found under a piece of driftwood (ship timber) on the 

 beach, Dec, 1912, (Fullaway). Quite a number collected in 

 dead branches of Scaevola Jcoenigii, April, 1911, (Bryan). 



Two New Species of Moths from Laysan Island. 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



Nesaniiptis laysanensis n. sp. 



Male, female; 22-25 mm. Antennae ochreous, barred with 

 fuscous above. Palpi oclireous, densely sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous; in male short and rounded projecting about the length 

 of head in front, in female elongate projecting three times the 

 length of head in front. Head, thorax and abdomen varying 

 from cinereous, to oclireous and liii'ht fuscous. Forewings cine- 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, III. No. 1, September, 1914. 



