HYMENOP TERA 65 1 



(42) Etipclmns paraleticothrix, sp. nov. 



Head above more or less golden, densely minutely shagreened and dull, facial 

 impression wide, not deep, very densely shagreened and dull, of rather dark metallic 

 colour, antennae of the usual form, the scape yellow for a short distance at the base, the 

 rest dark and metallic, eyes considerably hairy, palpi dark. Mesonotum very densely 

 shagreened and clothed conspicuously with white hairs, deep or reddish golden behind 

 and still more red on the parapsides, in front greenish golden, pleura with hardly any 

 green tint. Legs nearly as in P. leucotkrix, all the tibiae with a dark line or darkened 

 above, the front and hind ones conspicuously metallic on the dark line. Abdomen 

 brilliant metallic at the base, and the tip, in apical view, reddish coppery, between 

 for the most part dull bluish black, pleura coppery ; ovipositor yellow, black at base, 

 as long as the first two or three joints of the hind tarsi. Length ? 3"5 mm. 



Hab, Hawaii, Kilauea. 



(43) Etipehnus basileius, sp. nov. 



Head above green punctate and more or less rugulose, facial impression deep, 

 in some aspects nearly smooth at the bottom, black ; antennae short and stout, the 

 several basal joints of the funicle not elongate, but short ; palpi dark, eyes apparently 

 glabrous. Mesonotum green or blue-green, e.xtremely finely shagreened, somewhat 

 shining, the parapsidal portion purple. Front and hind legs dark and metallic green, 

 tip of the front tibiae and the tarsi mostly pale ; knee joints, and apical part of tibiae 

 of hind legs yellow. Middle femora black and submetallic, also the tibiae except 

 narrowly at the base and widely at the apex, which parts are yellow. Abdomen 

 conspicuously metallic blue, brightly green at the base, pleura green ; ovipositor black, 

 as long or nearly as long as the hind tarsi. Length % 2 mm. 



Hab. Oahu, Tantalus and elsewhere, 500 — 1500 ft. 



(44) Eupelmus xanthotarsus, sp. nov. 



Like E. basileius with short thick antennae, the head green, punctate or shagreened 

 and with black face. 



Mesonotum entirely green, densely and evenly and more strongly shagreened and 

 duller. Legs very similarly coloured, but the middle tibiae are less dark above, though 

 embrowned, except at the base and apex. The hind tarsi yellow. Ovipositor black 

 above, more or less yellowish tinged at the sides. Length % 2'\ mm. 



Hab. Oahu, near Honolulu, 1500 ft. 



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