BY REV. T. BLACKBUEN. 349 



higher mountains, ~ though I do not actually possess a great 

 number of specimens. I have also a single specimen of a pretty 

 little species of Anthocorina taken on Oahu which does not seem 

 to fit into any described genus known to me, but I think the safer 

 plan is to let it alone for the present. 



EMESID^. 



Ploiariodes. 



p. rubromaculaf a, SY>.nov. Grisea, fusco maculata; antennis, 

 pedibus hemelytrisque dilutioribus, his griseo (ante apicem rubro) 

 maculatis, ill is fusco-nigro annulatis ; pronoto inaequali postice 

 obscure bituberculato. ^ Long. 5| mm. 



Of a rather uniform grey colour, the antennae and legs paler 

 marked with conspicuous blackish rings. The hemelytra are 

 whitish, thickly mottled over their whole surface with small grey 

 blotches, giving them the appearance of being grey with a network 

 of white veins. Near the apex of the costal margin of the mem- 

 bi'ane is a very small and very bright i"ed spot. The hind wings are 

 dull transparent grey in colour. The surface of the thorax is uneven 

 having several obscure longitudinal ridges, the two most notice- 

 able of which each terminate posterior-ly in an indistinct tubercle ', 

 these tubercles are very much smaller and less conspicuous than 

 those in P. Whitei, mihi. 



A single specimen of this very distinct little insect was beaten 

 from a species of Ohia at an elevation of about 4000 feet on 

 Mauna Loa, Hawaii. 



I have a mutilated ^ specimen of this insect, or a close ally, 

 taken on one of the mountains near Honolulu. Beyond the 

 pilosity of the antennse (doubtless a sexual character), I caaanot find 

 any but slight colour distinctions from the Hawaiian specimen, 

 viz., that the red spot on the hemelytra is larger and paler, and 

 that some of the costal markings are of a darker colour. 



