( 728 ) XXXII. Notes on Hawaiian Hemiptera, with descriptions of new species. By R. C. L. Perkins, D.Sc, M.A., F.E.S. ' [Read November 15th, 1911.] NABIDAE. Heduviolus, Kirby. In September 1909 Kirkaldy published a revision of the Hawaiian species of Beduviolus, this being liis final one of several papers on the subject, each of these several papers giving very different conclusions. I have had occasion to make some study of the Hawaiian species at different times, both when naming my own specimens, and later when it became necessary for me to straighten out the Hawaiian collection, entrusted to Kirkaldy by the Sandwich Island Committee. This latter collection, owing to his sad and unexpected death, was left in great con-fusion and required much work before it could be arranged and the types determined, and for the same reason the proofs of his last contribution to the " Fauna Hawaiiensis" were unrevised. Having in my own possession the Black-burnian collection of Hawaiian Hemiptera, I have been able to compare specimens of the species described by Blackburn and White with those more lately collected. Kirkaldy's revision, above mentioned, was published in the Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, p. 49 et seq. His work on the genus contained in the " Fauna Hawaiiensis," II, p. 546 et seq., was written before this revision, but was not published till December 1910, or after his death. Consequently a number of the species given in the " Fauna Hawaiiensis " are sunk in the revision published earlier. There are also in the latter a number of serious and almost inexplicable errors connected with the sex of the insects therein described. Thus of B. nubigcnus it is said, " I have no males now before me," but the actual type which Kii'kaldy was using was a ^•, oi R. nithicola, " of this I have not seen a male," but the type is a ^ ; of R. proccUaris, " male yellowish-brown," but the unique type is a $. R. oscillans is sunk under siibrufiis, but the two are distinct, and I suspect that the examples called hoclensis by Kirkaldy are pale examples of suhrufics. R. subrufus, TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1911. — PART IV, (jAN.)
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