644 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(25) Eupelmus peles, sp. no v. 



Head metallic, with coppery and green, or golden reflections, rugulose and sparsely 

 punctured ; facial impression deep, wide, shagreened, but the antennal grooves are 

 smoother and shining in some aspects, purplish black, as also the sides of the face between 

 its impression and the eye margins. Palpi black, antennae of the usual form, eyes bare 

 or nearly so. Mesonotum coppery or reddish coppery on the front lobe and on the 

 scapulae, posteriorly dull golden or greenish, densely shagreened, the surface dull. 

 Neuration yellow. Legs brownish yellow or yellowish brown, the front and hind coxae 

 dark and metallic, the front femora above and the hind ones outwardly with slight 

 metallic reflection, but not dark. Abdomen brilliantly golden green at the base, behind 

 this for the most part blackish ; the bases of the intermediate segments, when exposed, 

 are metallic, at least on each side, the pleura coppery. Ovipositor black at the base, 

 the rest yellowish, decidedly longer than the hind tarsi. Length ? 4"2 5 mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea. 



(26) Eitpelmus etioplias, sp. nov. 



Head above coppery or more golden in some lights, dull, rugulose and sparsely and 

 finely punctured ; facial impression dull, densely shagreened, wide at the bottom, metallic 

 like the sides of the face adjoining it, and more or less green about the antennal 

 grooves, but somewhat less bright, antennae slender with elongate basal funicular joints 

 as usual, palpi dark, eyes sparsely hairy. Mesonotum coppery or reddish metallic on 

 the front lobe and on the ridges of the scapulae, dull and densely shagreened. Front 

 and hind coxae, front and hind femora and tibiae dark and metallic, except the knee 

 joints of the front legs and the apex of their tibiae, the knee joint of the hind legs which 

 are more widely yellowish, the extreme base of the hind femora, and the apices of the 

 hind tibiae ; middle tibiae distinctly embrowned and metallic above except at the base 

 and apex, middle coxae also partly dark and metallic, tarsi brown or infuscate above, 

 those of the middle legs less dark than the others, basal joint of hind tarsi whitish at 

 base. Neuration yellowish, the stigmal vein postmarginal and apical part of the 

 marginal vein more sordid or infuscate. Abdomen brightly metallic at the extreme 

 base, behind this blackish, the ape.x coppery, as also the pleura. Ovipositor long, black, 

 but on about its apical half it is sordid yellowish, about as long as the abdomen, when 

 this is not contracted, interrupted a little before the basal fourth of its length. Length % 



375 mm- 



This species must be very close to E. konae Ashm., but difi"ers so much in detail, 

 that I hesitate to consider it to be that species. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea. 



