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developed; metacarpus absent; radius as long as the median, not near!, 

 attaining the wing margin or apex ; wings ciliate. 



Related to Allobethyhis but the submedian cell is closed. In 

 Kieffer's tables runs to Epyris but the eyes are hairy, the stigma is 

 less developed, the fossae of the scutellum are different, and the propo- 

 deum has only a single imperfect median longitudinal ridge. 



Type : N^csepyris ewa Bridwell. 



Nesepyris ewa n. sp. 



Length about 3 mm. ; length of wing, 2 mm. 



Black ; mandibles, antennae, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-testaceous ; 

 wings hyaline, the venation yellowish. 



Clypeus carinate, truncate and thickened at apex ; eyes one and 

 one-half times their length distant from the occipital margin, malar 

 space trans erse ; front with a short impressed line leading up from 

 the clypeal carina ; ocelli in an acute triangle, the anterior ocellus 

 five times as far from the eye-margin as from the posterior ocelli, 

 these nearer to each other than to the occiput. Head strongly arched 

 transversely, coarsely tessellate, with short evenly disposed whitish 

 hairs ; eyes rather coarsely facetted, with some short scattered hairs ; 

 antennae with the scape about half as long as the pedicel, pedicel 

 longer than broad, as long as joints 1 and 2 of the Hagellum, these and 

 the rest except the last broader than long. 



Pronotum coarsely tessellate, with short evenly disposed wliitisli 

 hairs, longer than the mesonotum and scutellum together, narrowed 

 about one-half anteriorly ; mesonotum with the parapsidal furrows 

 converging posteriorly, ending opposite the oblique fossae at the base 

 of the scutellum, lateral furrows about half as long, minute sculpture 

 more transverse anteriorly, pubescence on the middle lobe like that of 

 the pronotum ; surface of the mesopleura similar to that of the prono- 

 tum, with a simple rounded fossa ; scutellum with the oblique fossae 

 connected by a siiallow transverse furrow ; propodeum shining, longer 

 tlian tlie mesonotum and scutellum together, tlie sides subp;irallel, tlie 

 superior face with the surface punctato-reticulatc at base, the apical 

 middle highly polished and shining with the surface malleate, some 

 oblique striae laterally, the sides and declivity highly polished and 

 shining, tessellate with the dividing lines not impressed. 



Abdomen ovate lanceolate, depressed ; tergites highly polished and 

 shining, tessellate. margins of 3-5 triarcuately depressed as in Sclrr- 

 o derm us. 



Described from two female specimens from the Ewa Coral 

 riain, Oahii, June 8 and Antrnst, 1919 (Bridwell). Type 

 in the collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 

 ])ai'atype in the anthor's collection. 



E.xpcriinents made with the ]>araty]-)e foinalc indicate that 



