646 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



metallic green in some lights, the palpi dark, the eyes sparsely and inconspicuously 

 pilose. Mesonotum with pallid yellowish or whitish hairs, green and more or less 

 golden, the ridges sometimes coppery. Front and hind coxae, femora, and tibiae dark 

 and metallic green, their apices and bases (excepting the coxae) more or less yellow, 

 their trochanters also for the most part dark, all the joints of their tarsi more or less 

 darkened above, the basal joint pale at the base ; middle legs yellowish, their coxae 

 outwardly dark and metallic, the femora with a dark metallic line, the tibiae brown and 

 metallic above except at the base and apex, the tarsi pale. Abdomen brilliant metallic 

 green at the base, behind this the segments are dark, blackish, with basal metallic green 

 or blue bands, tip of abdomen in apical view brilliant coppery, pleura blackish, with 

 basal metallic bands ; ovipositor black at base, and darkened towards the apex, between 

 these parts yellowish or reddish, about as long as the first two or three joints of the hind 

 tarsi. Marginal and stigmal veins of front wings subinfuscate. Length % 4 — 4'5 mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kau district, 4000 ft. 



(30) Eupelmus epimelas, sp. nov. 



Head above dull golden, the surface minutely but roughly sculptured, dull and 

 rugulose, facial impression rather shallow, greenish, densely shagreened or rugulose, dull, 

 palpi dark, antennae of the usual form, eyes hairy, but not conspicuously so. Mesonotum 

 greenish metallic, finely shagreened, dull, with sparse and fine but roughish punctures, 

 the ridges with reddish reflections. Legs almost similar to those of E. chalcoprepes, 

 but the middle coxae and the hind trochanters are yellow. Abdomen metallic green at 

 the base, behind this purplish black, the tip green, seen from above, coppery in apical 

 view ; pleura coppery. Ovipositor black, shorter than the hind tarsi, about equal to the 

 three basal joints. Length % about 3 mm. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kilauea. 



(31) Eupelmus caeriilopJiantes, sp. nov. 



Head above metallic green or golden, densely finely rugulose and shagreened, so 

 as to be rough and dull in dorsal aspect, facial impression shallow, densely rugulosely 

 shagreened, the surface dull, with green and coppery metallic colour ; eyes incon- 

 spicuously pilose, palpi dark, antennae of the usual form. Mesonotum with rather 

 sparse white hairs, dull, densely shagreened, golden, the parapsidal ridges reddish 

 coppery. Legs much as in E. chalcoprepes, but the basal joint of the hind tarsi is 

 entirely yellow or whitish ; hind trochanters yellow, middle tibiae subinfuscate above, a 

 little beyond the base, and metallic, the base and the apex more widely pale. Abdomen 

 brilliant blue-green at the base, the intermediate segments dull metallic blue or green 

 with dark fuscous apical bands, fifth segment entirely bluish metallic. Ovipositor black 



