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XXXII. Notes on Hawaiian Hemiptera, with descriptions 
of new species. By R. C. L. Perkins, D.Sc., 
M.A., F.E.S. 
* [Read November 15th, 1911. ] 
NABIDAE. 
Reduviolus, Kirby. 
In September 1909 Kirkaldy published a revision of the 
Hawanan species of Reduviolus, this being his final one 
of several papers on the subject, each of these several 
papers giving very different conclusions. I have had 
occasion to make some study of the Hawaiian species at 
different times, both when naming my own specimens, 
and later when it became necessary for me to straighten 
out the Hawaiian collection, entrusted to Kirkaldy by the 
Sandwich Island Committee. This latter collection, owing 
to his sad and unexpected death, was left in great con- 
fusion and required much work before it could be arranged 
and the types determined, and for the same reason the 
proofs of his last contribution to the “ Fauna Hawaiiensis” 
were unrevised. Having in my own possession the Black- 
burnian collection of Hawaiian Hemiptera, I have been 
able to compare specimens of the species described by 
Blackburn and White with those more lately collected. 
Kirkaldy’s revision, above mentioned, was published in 
the Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, p. 49 et seq. His work on 
the genus contained in the “Fauna Hawaiiensis,” II, 
p- 546 et seq., was written before this revision, but was 
not published till December 1910, or after his death. 
Consequently a number of the species given in the “ Fauna 
Hawaiiensis” are sunk in the revision published earlier. 
There are also in the latter a number of serious and almost 
inexplicable errors connected with the sex of the insects 
therein described. Thus of R. nubigenus it is said, “I have 
no males now before me,” but the actual type which 
Kirkaldy was using was a ¢; of RB. nubicola, “of this I 
have not seen a male,” but the type is a f; of RF. procellaris, 
“male yellowish-brown,” but the unique type is a &. 
RR. oscillans is sunk under subrufus, but the two are 
distinct, and I suspect that the examples called oclensis 
by Kirkaldy are pale examples of swhrufus. KR. subrufus, 
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