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plied to the following- tergites as to show no difference in 

 color. This resembles polynesialis bnt the clypens is less pro- 

 duced and the abdomen is distinctly tessellate but more feeblv 

 so than the thorax. The head also seems more strongly tes- 

 sellate than in the other species. There is no trace of ocelli. 

 One $, Mt. Kaala in the Waianae Mts., Oahn (Bridwell). 



Sclerodermus manoa n. sp. 



9 This species differs from any wingless female Sclerodermus 

 known to me except scmnoprcpiac, by its fully developed ocelli. These 

 are arranged in an acute triangle, the hind ocelli distant from the occipi- 

 tal margin about as far as from the anterior ocellus and about six times 

 that distance from the eye margin. 



Testaceous yellow ; eyes black, tips of mandibles, sutures of flagel 

 lum above, extreme base of first tergite very slightly, sublateral patches 

 on its disc, submedian lateral triangular area on either side the second, 

 and similar basal lateral areas on third and fourth, the sixth entirely and 

 the sixth sternite basally slightly infuscate. 



Clypeus produced about as long as broad, tectiform, its apex nearly 

 truncate, simple, the sides sraight. 



Head more finely tessellate than the thorax and a little more shining. 

 Thorax subopaque from the strong tessellations, sides of pronotum and 

 ■of propodeum longitudinally lineolate tessellate ; the mcsopleura with 

 finer tessellations similar to those of the dorsum. Propodeum distinctly 

 narrowed at base, the declivity obliquely truncate. 



Abdomen elongate ovate broader than thorax about as wide as the 

 liead, highly polished and shining, the hind margin of the first tergite 

 in the arc of a circle, the tergite not quite as wide as the second, 

 measuring where the suture touches the lateral margins. 



Length about 3 mm. 



This Sclerodermus was found in a cavity in a small 

 stub of white rotten wood, probably the remains of a bush of 

 Scaevola chamissoniana along the Manoa cliffs trail in the 

 mountains back of Honolulu on May i'S, 1918. It was there 

 associated with a limp immobile lepidopterous larva supposed 

 to be that of a species of 8emnoprepia. The Sclerodermus and 

 the caterpillar were placed in a glass tube and brought in for 

 observation. On the next day she had laid five eggs scattered 

 about on the glass of the tube. The eggs were short ellipsoidal, 

 perhaps twice as long as broad, very large in proportion to the 

 size of the adult, and the poles were very slightly different. 



