Culeoptera from tlie Hawaiian Islands. 103 



Hawaiian Archipelago, I think it advisable, nnder the 

 circumstances above mentioned, to leave the question of" 

 generic diversity till more is known of the actually 

 existing species. 



Clf/tarlus microf/aster, n. sp. Niger, antennis pedi- 

 busque (his ex parte) rufis ; fronte, thoraceque sulphureo- 

 bivittatis ; elytris fusco-rufis, maculis setarum pallidarum 

 numerosis ; pectore ad latera anterius et posterius sul- 

 phureo-maculato ; pedibns quatuor posterioribus, valde 

 elongatis, ad apicem nigris, tibiis tarsisque posterioribus 

 hirsutis. Long. 17 mm.; lat. ad elytrorum basin vix 

 4 mm. 



Antennas of male reaching just to extremity of elytra, 

 entirely pale red ; head black, with two approximate bands 

 of yelloAv set£e on the front, on the vertex with scattered 

 yellow setffi. Thorax longitudinally elevated along the 

 middle, the elevation not reaching quite to the base, and 

 with its anterior and posterior jiarts a little the most 

 elevated, the posterior portion of the elevation is traversed 

 by a very fine transverse carina, and the anterior portion 

 is obscurely granulated. The thorax is black, but is 

 traversed by two broad and excessively conspicuous bands 

 of yellow set^ ; the space between these bands is very 

 densely punctured and dull, Avhile outside these bands the 

 surface is glabrous and shining. The elytra are very 

 attenuate at the extremity, the base and sides are reddish, 

 but this colour shades gradually into pitchy black ; the 

 surface is closely punctured (the punctuation becoming 

 obsolete at the apex), and is marked by numerous 

 irregular flecks of depressed pale-yellow setae, which are 

 so irregularly disposed that they are not quite similar on 

 the two Aving cases. The undersui'face is black, clothed 

 scantily with Avhitish seta) or hairs, and marked between 

 the edge of the wing case and the middle with a dense, 

 patch of sulphur-yellow setre, and Avith a similar patch at 

 the apex of the side piece of the metasternum. The hind 

 body (in the male) is very minute and much arched, the 

 basal segments arc pitchy, the apical ones reddish. The 

 front legs are pale red, Avith the femora blackish toAvards 

 the apex, and bear pale hairs. The middle and hind 

 legs are greatly elongated (especially the hinder ones), and 

 the femora are very peculiar, the base is rather slender, 



