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The living nymph of the final instar is of a very pale greenish of 

 the same tint as the underside of the Pipturus-leaves, but after death, 

 the greenish tint changes into pale yellowish. The apical lobe of the 

 head, the legs, etc., are whitish translucent; antennae, clypeus, etc., 

 tinged with orange. On the fore and middle femora there is a pale 

 fuscous-red subapical annulus and a similar bright red one on fhe 

 hind pair. The lateral margins of the hind lobe of the head and the 

 hind margin (medially interrupted) of the pronotum, a short line 

 exteriorly and one interiorly, on the tegminal pads, greenish-grey. 

 Abdomen above with an irregular dark fuscous stripe down the mid- 

 dle, a bright red spot on most of the segments in the middle. 



9. subrufus (White). 



Nahis subnifus F. B. White, 1877, A. M. N. H., (4) XX, 112. 



N. oscillans Blackburn, 1888, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., (2) 

 HI, 352. 



Reduviolus subrufus Kirkaldy, 1902, Faun. Haw., Ill, 156, 

 PI. 5, f. 37. 



R. arrogans Kirkaldy. 1908, P. Haw. E. S. I. 



Eliminating triKttlentus and koclcnsis, my remarks in the 

 "Fauna Hawaiiensis" still hold. The emargination of the hind 

 margin of the pronotum is a variable character, as I have taken 

 specimens off the same tree, some with truncate margin and 

 some with emarginate ; the amount of infuscation and the mem- 

 branal venation also vary. Arrogans is, now I think, simply a 

 darker form with simpler venation. I separate, however, as a 

 variety (melemele), a rather polished, yellow form from Maui, 

 (Haleakala), which seems to have all the specific characters of 

 subrufus, but of which I have seen only females. 



R. subrufus is distributed all over Oahu, Molokai, Maui and 

 Hawaii (and probably Lanai), in the forest region, and fre- 

 quents Ohia lehua (Nani polymorpha). 



The type of subrufus was from Oahu, that of oscillans from 

 Hawaii (Kilauea), and that of arrogans from the Molokai Mts., 

 but I have taken an identical specimen of the latter with typical 

 ones in Hawaii (Kilauea). 



1 have figured the male hook (f. 4). 



10. sharpiamm Kirkaldy. 



Reduviolus sharpianus Kirkaldy, 1902, Faun. Haw., HI, 156, 

 PI. 5. f. 36. 



I have not seen a male of this species, which 's resf 'cted to 

 Kauai. The coloring and short antennae will distinguish it 

 among the subrufus-series. 



