PSYLLIDAE (CHERMIDAE) 



By Prof, D. L. Crawford, Honolulu 



(With 4 Text-figures) 



This family is well represented in the fauna of the South Pacific Islands, a 

 certain degree of resemblance indicating a close relationship in the species of 

 the various islands, and a tendency toward general distribution of many of the 

 species. 



In the collections submitted to me by Dr. Buxton, and by the Bishop 

 Museum in Honolulu, seven species of Psyllidae are represented. 



PAUROPSYLLINAE 

 1. Paurocephala wilderi sp. n. (Text-fig. 1.) 



Resembling P. psylloptera Crawford, but smaller. Length of body, female 

 about 1-0 to 1-5 mm., male less than 1 mm. Colour dark chocolate-brown to 

 black, except legs, base of antennae and metasternum, and sometimes the 

 ventral portion of abdomen light brown or straw 

 colour. 



Head short, nearly as broad as thorax, 

 deflexed ; vertex smooth, with posterior ocelli 

 only a little elevated. Antennae about one and 

 a half times as long as width of head including Text-fig. 1. — Paurocephala ivilderi 

 eyes. Eyes rather small, usually brown or black. Crawf., sp. u. Elytron. 



Thorax arched, relatively broad, smooth, finely reticulated. Metascutellum 

 with a small, blunt epiphysis, dorsad. Legs slender. Forewings a little longer 

 than body, clear except a brownish area in apical portion. Hind wings smaller, 

 clear. 



Abdomen of female dark brown or black, with a few light brown markings ; 



