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Footnote 
1 Published with the approval of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as 
Scientific Contribution No. 837. 
PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST 
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SCIENTIFIC NOTE 
A NOTE ON THE ANTHICIDAE OF KAUAI, HAWAII 
During a 1976 visit to Kauai, the author and his wife noted on several 
occasions numbers of anthicids on the inner sides of shop windows and on 
adjacent walls. A small series of the animals was collected (2 mi SE Lihue; 
27-28 November 1976; D. K. and J. T. Young) and subsequently determined 
to be Stricticomus to bias (Marseul) (specimens deposited in the collection 
of the author as well as that of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu). To the 
author’s knowledge, this represents the first Hawaiian record of the cos¬ 
mopolitan tobias outside Oahu, as well as the first anthicid to be recorded 
from the island of Kauai. A check through the collections of the Bishop 
Museum (conducted by G. A. Samuelson) and the Hawaii Department of 
Agriculture (conducted by S. Y. Higa) for additional unpublished records 
yielded but a single Kauaian anthicid, this having been identified as A. 
floralis (Linnaeus). Additionally, Dr. Samuelson was able to locate data 
cards on file at the Bishop Museum which listed S. tobias, A. vexator Wer¬ 
ner, and Thicanus annectens (LeConte) from Kauai, though these records 
could not be confirmed by specimens. The tobias and annectens samples 
were recorded as having been taken in “salt marshes nr. sea level.” 
The association of S. tobias with shop display windows leads me to sug¬ 
gest that artificial lighting served as the stimulus for attraction, an idea 
supported by other collection records which list the species as having been 
taken from light trap samples (Werner, 1961, Psyche 68: 70-72; Werner, 
1966, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc. 19: 310-316). Extensive baiting with can- 
tharidin, a positive stimulus for the attraction of numerous species of an¬ 
thicids (Chandler, 1976, Pan-Pac. Ent. 52: 179-180; Young, unpublished 
notes) proved fruitless in several habitat types on Kauai. 
The time and assistance of G. A. Samuelson and S. Y. Higa are gratefully 
acknowledged. 
Daniel K. Young, Dept. ofEntomol., Michigan State Unix., East Lansing, 
48824. 
