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and the metapleura smooth and more or less cupreous ; antennae black ; legs brown- 

 yellow, the co.xae metallic, the hind tarsi more or less fuscous ; abdomen blue-black, 

 with an aeneous tinge in certain lights ; wings hyaline, the tegulae and veins yellowish. 

 The flagellum is subclavate, the joints being fluted, the first the longest, about twice as 

 long as thick, the following gradually shortening, the last funlcle joint being only a 

 little longer than thick. 



J. Length 2 mm. Blue to bluish-green, the head and thorax above usually bright 

 metallic green ; abdomen, coxae and femora dark blue, the tibiae and tarsi brownish- 

 yellow ; the flagellum filiform, clothed with a short pubescence, the funicle 7-jointed, the 

 first joint the longest, nearly 2^ times as long as thick at apex, the following gradually 

 shortening, the seventh joint being only a little longer than thick. 



Hab. Hawaii: Kilauea ; Kona, taken in August, September and November; 

 Olaa, in November. 



Family LXVIII. ENCYRTIDAE. 



Subfamily I. EUPELMINAE. 



SoLiNDENiA Cameron. 

 1883. Solindenia Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 189. 



( I ) Solindenia picticornis Cameron. 



1883. Solindenia picticornis Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 189. $. 

 1898. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., v. p. 271. 



$. Length between 3 and 4 mm. Reddish-brown, faintly pubescent, the vertex 

 of the head brown or blackish, the face below the antennae, the cheeks, the temples, 

 the prothorax, the mesopleura posteriorly and the sternum, brownish-yellow, the 

 mesonotum just in front of the scutellum bluish, the metanotum with a violaceous tinge ; 

 abdomen at basal third and funicle joints of antennae 3 to 6, the anterior coxae, all 

 trochanters, and the middle and hind tarsi, white ; rest of legs yellowish, except that the 

 anterior tibiae outwardly, or at apex, and their tarsi, more or less, are subfuscous ; the 

 scape, pedicel, two first joints of funicle and the club are brown or fuscous. Wings 

 abbreviated, shorter than the abdomen, and fuliginous from the apex of the subcostal 

 vein, with an oblique, more or less cuneiform-shaped white spot beneath the marginal 

 vein and extending to the base of the stigmal, and another vis-d-vis on the hind margin 

 of the wing. 



Hab. Oahu : Honolulu, in October. — Hawaii : Kona Mts. (1500 feet), in January. 



