354 NOTES ON THE HEMIPTERA OP THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 



This small species is very distinct from any other taken by me. 

 The beak is obscurely testaceous ; the head, thorax, and scutellum 

 are black without markings, and are very little shining owing to 

 their surface being minutely wrinkled. The thorax is strongly 

 narrowed anteriorly with a very conspicuous rounded fovea on 

 the disc ; the sides of its hinder half are quite evidently 

 rounded ; those of the anterior half straight. The clavus is almost 

 wholly black (there is a small obscui'e pale mark near the apex). 

 The corium is so variegated as to be very difficult to describe : the 

 prevailing colour is a pale testaceous brown, with the nervures 

 dark fuscous. Along the costal area the fuscous markings are — 

 a small spot near the base, a linear kind of mark before the 

 middle, a large conspicuous blotch just beyond the middle, and 

 another nearly as large near the apex. The rest of the corium is 

 somewhat blotched with deep brown-black (more in one of my 

 specimens than in the other), and the pale testaceous colour 

 becomes, in places, abruptly almost white. The antennae are of 

 an obscure colour, paler at the base, and their apical joint is 

 thickened and shorter than the penultimate. The legs are 

 testaceous, their femora, tibije, and tarsi all being marked with a 

 darker colour. The underside is of an obscure blackish colour. 

 The peculiar lateral outline of the thorax at once distinguishes 

 this species from its known Hawaiian congeners. 



Two specimens occurred near a waterfall several miles from 

 Honolulu. 



