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Halticus chrysolepis, sp. n. 

 Head, pronotum, and scutellum sinning black, immaculate. Teg- 

 mina brownish black. Pronotum, scutellum, and tegmina sufficiently 

 thickly covered with easily divested pale golden scale-like hairs. First 

 and second segments of antennae pallid, apex of second black, third 

 and fourth dark ; base of third tarsal segment black, posterior femora 

 a little reddish. Abdomen black. Head as seen in front subequi- 

 laterally triangular. Clypeus as seen from the side scarcely wider at 

 the apex than in the middle ; labium narrow as seen from the side, 

 Pronotum transversely aciculate. Long. 2^ mill. 



Honolulu ; on grass and Carex (March, 1904, R. C. L. Per- 

 kins). 



N.B. — Calocoris canus, Distant (1893), is usually quoted as a 

 synonym of H. uhleri, Giard, but, I think, in mistake. Distant's 

 species seems more allied to the saltator, Fourcroy, group. It 

 has certainly nothing to do with Calocoris. 



In July last (1903) I had the opportunity of a very brief 

 survey, through the courtesy of Mr. Alex. Rodger, the curator, of 

 F. B. White's collection of Hawaiian Hemiptera, contained in 

 the Museum of Natural Sciences, Perth, Scotland. 



Five types are lost, viz. : — 



1. Geotomus jiLcundus, which is well known to be =pygmalus, 

 Dallas. 



2. Triphleps persequens, of which, however, I have seen a 

 . specimen answering to the description. 



3 & 4. Dilasia decolor and denigrata. Both now placed as one 

 species in Lasiocheilns. 



5. Lilia delecta. Unknown to me. 

 Of the others : — 



6. Nahis lusciosus is similar to the example figured on pi. v. 

 f. 35, of my " Hemiptera " (' Fauna Hawaiiensis,' iii.). 



7. Nabis subrufus is similar to fig. 37. 



The other forms have been correctly interpreted. 



NOTE ON THE ORTHOPTEROUS GENUS CAPNOBOTES. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



During the last week of August, 1903, at Pecos, New Mexico, 

 I became acquainted with the Decticid genus Capnobotes. The 

 dry hillocks at Pecos are clothed with nut pines (Pinus edulis) 

 and so-called cedars, species of Sabina. From the pines, at 

 dusk, there proceeds a shrill cry, produced by the males of 

 Capnobotes. The noise is loud, but pitched in so high a key that 

 my companion, who was not at all deaf to ordinary sounds, could 



