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t- Length v^ mm. General colour deep metallic blue-black ; antennae with the 

 scape yellow-brown, the remaining joints darker; all legs light yellow-brown except 

 hind tibiae, which are blackish. Wings perfectly clear. (Howard.) 



Hab. Lanai (3000 feet), in January. — Molokai Mountains (3000 feet), in January 

 and June. — Maui : Haleakala, in March and July. 



Although this species was originally described from California as early as 1881, and 

 from the Hawaiian Islands in 18S3, it is evidently not indigenous to either fauna, but 

 is probably a species introduced from the Australian fauna. 



Subfamily IV. SPALANGIINAE. 



Spalangia Latreille. 

 1802. Spalangia Latreille, Hist. nat. Crust, et Ins., iii. p. 227. 



(i) Spalangia hirta Haliday. 



1833. Spalangia hirta Haliday, Ent. Mag., i, p. 334. %. 1876. Thomson, 

 Hym. Skand., iv. p. 215. 1881. Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 

 p. 562. — 1898. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., v. p. 208. 



Capite thoraceque fere totis punctato reticulatis confertim villosis %. (" Long. corp. 

 . 14 ; alarum 2.") 



Caput obscure aeneum antice magis attenuatum quam in sequente, totum confertim 

 crasse punctatum et villosum, plaga intermedia frontis tantum laevissima glabra : 

 antennae nigrae quam in ilia longiores et minus incrassatae, articulo 3tio parum breviore 

 quam 2do : thora.x obscure aeneus : collare, mesothoracis scutum et humeri confertim 

 punctati, scuti tantum margine antico levigato : paraptera et scutellum vage punctata, 

 hoc apice parcius : metathoracis latera rugoso-punctata, scutellum laevissimum margini- 

 bus et canalicula media crenatis : squamulae fusco-ferrugineae : alae dilute ferrugineae 

 nervis fuscis : abdomen et pedes ut in sequente. (Haliday.) 



Hah. Hawaii : Honolulu (Blackburn). This European species was recorded from 

 Honolulu by Mr Peter Cameron. I have not seen it and it is not in the collections 

 made by Messrs. Perkins and Koebele, although there is another species, represented in 

 both sexes, which is described below as new. 



(2) Spalangia lanaiensis, sp. nov. 



%. Length i '8 to 2 mm. Polished black but exhibiting a faint bluish or aeneous 

 tinge in certain lights ; it is smooth and impunctate, except a few sparse punctures on 

 the pronotum, the parapsides and at the sides of the scutellum ; the tarsi, except the last 

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