1881] 201 



ANOTHEOEUS. 



A. igwayfs, sp. no v. 



JEneo-piceus, antennis pedib usque plus minusve rufescentibus ; rostro lato 

 capite longiore, sparsim subtiliter punctato ; antennarum funiculi articulo 

 secundo primo vix longiore; prothorace antice fortiter postice plus paulo con- 

 tracto, crebre fortiter punctato, lateribus rotundatis ; elytris subparallelis, 

 convexis, substriatis, striis crebre fortiter punctatis, interstitiis crebre punc- 

 tatis. Long. 5\ — 6 mm. 



Haleakala, Maui ; in the bark of the " Koa" tree, at an elevation 

 of about 4000 feet. 



Easily distinguished from its congener (A. montanus) by the 

 strongly rounded outline of its thorax, which is much contracted 

 behind, and the sub-parallel form of its elytra, on which the striae are 

 very faint, and the punctures in the striae very fine, as compared with 

 those of montanus. 



Honolulu : November, 1880. 



NOTES ON THE HAIRS OF SYMENOPTERA. 

 BY EDWARD SATJNDERS, E.L.S. 



I published in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London for 1878 the few observations I had then made on the hairs of 

 our British Aculeate Hymenoptera. Since which time I have made a 

 few further notes which I thought might be interesting to some of the 

 readers of the Magazine. 



I there observed that the MelUfera or pollen-collecting bees 

 differed from the other sections of the Order in having their hairs 

 branched or plumose, at least on most parts of their body. Now, 

 there are a few Melliferce and Eossorials, &c, which have hairy eyes ; 

 and it occurred to me that it would be interesting to see if these very 

 minute hairs which grow between the facets of the eye were also con- 

 formable to the rule observed above. I therefore compared the 

 hairs from the eye of Entomognatlius brevis, one of the fossores, with 

 those from the eye of a species of Ccelioxys, one of the Melliferce ; the 

 result being that the JEntomognathus hairs appeared quite simple, 

 whereas those of Ccelioxys showed evident indications of branches, see 



