58 A (Tk' species (>l Sicrohi. With li.vplaimtorx Xotcs. 



fdrnis in iIk' Cdllcctioii^ I haw i-xamiiu'd. while tlic naiucil male- 

 rial in the IHshd]) Mnseum examined 1)\' ni_\sell and in the I'. S. 

 Xalional Alusenm examined 1)_\' Mr. Timherlake has in many 

 instances several distinct turnis nnder one name, and is useless for 

 identifying" an\- of the ])revi()usly-(lescril)ed species. The characters 

 which 1 have employed to distini;'nish species are ohvious charac- 

 ters but their u>e necessitates a very careful examination of the 

 s]jecimens in hand and fine discrimination. While 1 have seen 

 manv distinct male forms, 1 have not cared to describe any that 

 cannot be associated with their females, for the two sexes are 

 often strikingly dififerent and confusion would be the inevitable 

 result. I'ltimately. 1 believe, many more species will be reared 

 from their hosts, the larv;e of Lepidoptera. and the relatit)n of 

 male antl female forms estal)lished. The multiplicity of forms will 

 astonish some, but this condition is paralleled in many other genera 

 of Hawaiian insects; in fact, a meagre and .scattered representa- 

 tion of the families and genera of insects existing" on the conti- 

 nents and the presence of many numerically large genera are the 

 outstanding features of the Hawaiian fauna. 



In 1900 the genus was found to be represented in .\.ustralia 

 as well as in Hawaii. Ashmead" described in that year two species 

 from Xew South Wales to which Turner,- in 191 5. added a third 

 from Southwest Australia. Representatives of the genus have also 

 been found by Aluir in Fiji and Southern China and are described 

 herewith. The range of the genus, which was once thought to be 

 confined to the .\ustralian Region, appears likely to prove very wide. 



The tv])es of the species herein described are deposited in the 

 ]'>ernice I'auahi I'.isho]) Museum at Honolulu. 



■ r. Linn. Hoc. X. S. Wales. XXV. pp. 328-329. 

 •■ Proc. Zool. Soc. 191.5, p. 68. 



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