730 Dr. R. C. L. Perkins on 
Hab. OAHU, common in all stages on Gouldia in the 
mountains. 
Obs. This is the species referred to by Kirkaldy in his 
supplement to the Hemiptera, “Fauna Haw.,” II, p. 553, 
as Cyrtopeltis hawaviensis, but it clearly has nothing to do 
with that species, described in the same work, p. 138. 
The original series of OC. hawatiensis, excepting the type 
set, was destroyed during one of Mr. Kirkaldy’s illnesses 
in hospital for want of attention. There was therefore 
no reason to assume, without comparison of specimens, that 
his original description of Cyrtopeltis was erroneous. I 
have an example trom near the Waianae coast of Oahu, 
which agrees exactly with Kirkaldy’s description of @. 
hawaiiensis, but is rather smaller. J should think C. con- 
fusa is decidedly not even congeneric with C. hawavensis, 
the very different antennae and pronotum, the larger and 
more coarsely faceted eyes and many other distinctions 
separating the two. At present, however, it is only neces- 
sary to call attention to the existing confusion of species 
with entirely different habits and appearance, especially as 
C’. confusa is one of the most familiar endemic Hemiptera 
of the Honolulu district. C. hawaviensis will probably be 
found on Dodonaea viscosa, which grows freely both above 
and below the true forest belt. 
Tichorhinus tantali, sp. nov. 
Colour in well-preserved dry specimens after four or five years 
preservation as follows: head, pronotum anteriorly, scutellum and 
legs yellow, sometimes more or less greenish tinged, pronotum 
