HYMEN OP TERA 



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Subfam. SCELIONINAE. 



Opisthacantha Ashm. 



(i) Opisthacantha dubiosa, sp. no v. 



Black, the mandibles, scape of the antennae wholly or in part and all the legs 

 yellowish brown or testaceous, abdomen often distinctly brownish on the basal portion, 

 rarely black. Head and thorax with white pubescence, both very densely and roughly 

 sculptured, but the head more finely than the thorax ; postscutellum in profile appearing 

 as a short spine projecting over the propodeum. First segment of the abdomen short, 

 strongly transverse, much shorter than the second, both of these strongly longitudinally 

 striate, third as long as the two preceding together, and much more finely longitudinally 

 striate, the following segments excessively finely punctured. 



Antennae of the male filiform moniliform, the pedicel extremely small, the first 

 funicle joint decidedly longer than those following, which are short, but not transverse, 

 and do not differ much from one another, apical joint longer than the preceding and 

 pointed. 



Antennae of female with a large six- or seven-jointed club, as long or longer than 

 the pedicel and funicle joints together, pedicel about as long as the first funicle joint, 

 which is longer than the following. The basal of the seven joints, which appear to me 

 to form the club, may really belong to the funicle. Length about 2 mm. 



Differs from the type of Opisthacantha in the total absence of parapsidal furrows and 

 the want of a basal cell. Ashmead appears to have seen specimens agreeing in these 

 respects with the above (vide his classifications). Although he describes the third 

 abdominal segment as "a little longer" than the second, he figures it as being much 

 longer. 



Hab. Oahu ; males very common in company with introduced bugs. 



Anteris Forst. 

 (i) Anteris montana, sp. nov. 



Female : black, the abdomen for the most part, the funicle of the antennae dark 

 fuscous or pitchy, scape of antennae and legs testaceous, the pedicel of the former and 

 coxae of the latter being darker, or more brown ; scutellum with the margin testaceous. 



Head pubescent, densely punctate ; first funicle joint of antennae much longer than 

 the pedicel, and rather longer than the second, which like the third is elongate ; the 

 latter about as long as the next two together, the fourth being rather longer than the 

 fifth and not transverse ; basal joint of the club wider than long and much less wide 

 than the next joint. Mesonotum and scutellum dull and very finely punctured, the 

 postscutellum prominent and angulate in the middle posteriorly, propodeum rugulose- 

 punctate, its inferior lateral angles minutely dentate, the superior ones slightly prominent. 



