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Note on a genus of Californian Tetigoniidae (Hemiptera). 



BY G. \V. KIRKALDY. 



In 1902 (Can. Ent., XXXIV, 19), Ball placed his new genus 

 Pagaronia near Errhomenellus and Tetigonia, and remarks, "this 

 is a very puzzling form and seems in several characters to con- 

 nect the Tettigonidae with the Jassidae through some of the 

 lower forms in that group," (p. 21). In my opinion, the genus 

 belongs to the lassini (cf. Kirkaldy, 1907, Bull. H. S. P. Ent., Ill, 

 p. 72))^ antl should be placed not very far from lassiis Fabncius, 

 the structure of the head, the venation, and the genitalia being 

 sufEciently characteristic. It is to be noted that the lassini are 

 apparently not "low" forms, but are rather to be placed at the 

 end of the Tetigoniidae (Jassoidea of Van Duzee), and con- 

 sidered as the best-developed forms. 



A single male of P. lypunctata Ball was collected in Califor- 

 nia, Santa Barbara foothills, (June, 1907), by Mr. W. M. Gif- 

 fard, which may be called var. octopunctata nov., differing from 

 the typical form by the absence of the facial spots near the ocelli, 

 and of the pronotal spots ; the male plates are three times as long 

 as the apical urosternites. 



The roundly emarginate lateral margins of the pronotum near 

 the eyes give this form a very Fulgoroid appearance, not at all 

 unlike that of some Achilini. 



In the same locality, Mr. Giffard found also Paropulopa intcr- 

 nipta Ball, a small Cicadoid. 



JANUARY 7th, 1909. 



The forty-seventh regular meeting of the Society was held in 

 the usual place. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



Mr. W. M. Giffard exhibited a single male specimen of Ody- 

 nerus vulcanus taken by him on Tantalus, Oahu, at 1500 feet 

 elevation. Dr. Perkins who had examined the specimen informed 

 Mr. Giffard that it was absolutely typical with the same species 

 which is not uncommon on the Island of Hawaii. As O. vulcanus 

 is not ordinarily taken on any other island than Hawaii the speci- 

 men taken by Mr. Giffard must be considered as having been 

 either accidentally introduced or blown over from the adjacent 

 isle. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, II, No. 2, Sept., 1909. 



