Inserting an Interval Using JDBC

My apologies if there's a simple answer to my problem, but I've looked
and looked and can't figure it out.

I have just upgraded to the 8.1-404 version of the JDBC driver from a
much older version. In the past I had been able load an interval into my
database by sending it as a string, as such:

String myInterval = "08:00";  // 8 hour interval
...
stmt.setString(1, myInterval);

Using the new driver I am no longer able to do this and get the
following error:

column "num_hours" is of type interval but expression is of type text

I have looked through the driver source code, but don't see that I could
send the value as an "object" or as one of the other time-related types.
If someone might be able to point me to a solution to this problem, I'd
be most appreciative.

Thanks.

- Will