334 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(2) Evania appendigaster Linnd. 



1758. I cimeituion appendigaster Linne, Syst. Nat., Ed. x. i. 

 1889. Evania appendigaster Schletterer, Ann. naturhist. Hofmus. iv. p. 136. $, $. 

 (Full bibliography and synonymy.) 



$, ^. Length 7 to 8 mm. Black, shining, the head and the thorax above, except 

 a few sparse punctures, are smooth and impunctate ; mesopleura anteriorly smooth 

 impunctate, posteriorly along the hind margin crenate, and with a few sparse punctures 

 on its convex disc ; metathorax rather coarsely reticulated, the scutellum with a few 

 minute sparse punctures. Wings hyaline, the stigma and costae black, the internal 

 veins brownish or testaceous. Abdomen petiolate, the abdomen strongly compressed, 

 hatchet-shaped, testaceous along the venter, the ovipositor subexserted, visible from 

 above as a short point ; body of abdomen in $ clavate, compressed. 



Hab. Hawaii : Olaa and Hilo, in July (H. W. Henshaw). 



Family LXXVl. ICHNEUMONIDAE. 



Subfamily II. CRYPTINAE. 

 Tribe III. HEMITELINI. 



This tribe is represented by three closely allied species, widely distributed in North 

 America, which were evidently introduced into these Islands from importations from 

 California. 



Hemiteles Gravenhorst. 

 1829. Hemiteles Gravenhorst, Ich. Eur., 11. p. 780. 



(i) Hemiteles variegatiis Ashmead. 



1890. Hemiteles variegatiis Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii. p. 398. 



%. Length, 2"4 mm. ; ovipositor, o"4 mm. Brownish-yellow, varied with black, 

 minutely shagreened and opaque ; the head is large, transverse, wider than the thorax, 

 the stemmaticum blackish ; antennae 18 — 20-jointed ; thorax without parapsidal grooves, 

 and with three black blotches posteriorly ; metathorax areolated, the disk black ; petiole 

 more or less black, a blotch on disk of second and third abdominal segments sometimes, 

 and the following segments entirely, black. Wings hyaline, the front wings with two 

 transverse fuscous bands. Metathorax areolated, the areola hexagonal, a little wider 

 than long, the basal area very short transverse. 



Hab. Hawaii. One female specimen taken by Koebele. 



