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the base of the scutellum ; sutures of the abdomen broadly pale. Length 

 about 3 mm. 



Descril)ed from live 5 and 1 $ bred bv O. II. Swezey 

 friiiii the larva of Hyposmocoma chUonella in the rotten wood 

 of Pipturns on the Manoa Cliffs trail, Mt. Tantalus, Oahu^ 

 May 13, 1909, and from five $ bred with others from rotten 

 wood by D. T. Fnllaway on Tantalus probably from the same 

 host and even the same tree. 



Type 2 and allotype S in the collection of the liav/aiian 

 Entomological Society; paratypes in the collection of the Ha- 

 waiian Sugar Planters' Association, and in the private collec- 

 tion of I). T. Fnllaway and of the author. 



Sclerodermus Muiri n. sp. t^ 



9 A black appearing species closely resembling ^. polyiicsialis, the 

 propodeum less narrowed basally and the clypeus less produced, slightly 

 emarginate in the middle. The sculpture much like that of manoa. 

 Head without any trace of ocelli. Length about 2.5 mm. 



Described from one $ collected at Kilauea, Hawaii (F. 

 Muir) from the collection of W. M. Giffard. Type in the 

 collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 



Sclerodermus tantalus, n. sp. ^ 



$ Head testaceous brown, thorax yellow the mesonotum, meso- 

 pleurae and sides of propodeum brownish, abdomen piceous black, the 

 margins of the tergites translucent, legs and antennae yellowish. 



Head without any trace of ocelli, the occipital distance more than 

 twice the length of the eye, antennae not at all elongate as compared to 

 poccilcdes. 



Head feebly tessellate, thorax more strongly so, abdomen feebly tes- 

 sellate more strongly on the declivity of the first tergite. The tessel- 

 lations of the sides of the pronotum are not so long as those of Poly 

 ncsialis, the mesopleura coarsely tessellate but the lines bounding the 

 tessellation are not so much impressed as those on the dorsum ; sides of 

 propodeum lineolate-tessellate. 



The clypeus is not so strongly produced as in polynesialis and the 

 anterior margin is inclined to be reflexed. Length about 2.25 mm. 



I was at first inclined to identify this as euprepe^ but 

 that is evidently a larger species with the antennae longer and 

 the occipital distance less. 



