as reported in the pi'csciil voluiiic of llicsc prdcccdini-s, pp. I'l-l 

 and 22.']. Sul)yeiiueiitl_y oii Feb. (>, 1 !»!(;, he touk ii upon tlu; 

 elevated eoi-al reef east of Dianioiid Head. I^arlv in April 

 tile writer found it aUnndant anions' the flowei-s and on the 

 foliaiie of h-lt( (AcacKt fanicsidiKi) and ali;croha { I'rosopis 

 jiill flora) aloiiii' the road on the ocean side of l)ianiond Head. 

 Mr. Swezev took it near Pearl Citv on Sept. 11; the wi'iter 

 found it ainoni>' the grass on the Ewa eoi-al ])lain below Sisal 

 on ^ov. 28; and Ifr. Swezey on Jan. 17, IIHT, in the eane- 

 fields above \Vai])io. I found it in Xovendier. I'.MCi, at the 

 base of Ivoko Head crater under stones with Tenebrionid 

 beetles. Mv. Fnllaway informs nie that ^Ir. (iiffai'd and be- 

 have taken it in 1917 at the Xnnanu I'ali. 



In its behavior it is much like the smallei- s])ecies of 

 Tiplna"'. I have frequently seen it rnnning- about on the 

 groimd aud in one case it entered the gTonnd in an e.\])loratorv 

 way thrn a crevice. T believe it to be ])arasitic n]>on the larvae 

 of some or all of onr s])ecies of Tenebrionid beetles ( Al ph'ito- 

 hiiis. GonocephaJiim,- and llidpstliuis) which are abundant 

 in the areas Avhere the wasp has been taken. So far as 1 can 

 learn none of the species of Epiji-is have been bn^l ])nt 1 have 

 taken a smaller Epyris at (^ipetown carrying in its jaws a 

 Tenbrionid lai'va hirger than itself, and Mr. H. T. Osborn 

 observed near Pearl City on Sept. 4, 1915, while searching for 

 traces of T'lplihi larvae on Aiiomdla grnl)s, a Tenebrionid larva 

 parasitized by an external Ilymenopterons larva resembling that 

 of T'lphia. This perished withont transforming, bnt as we know 

 no other wasp here to which the larva conld well be assigned, 

 I am convinced that he had the larva of our Ejii/ns before^ its 

 adult had lieen discovered. 



The species corres])onds to none of the Xorth Amei-ican 

 S]iecies of E/n/ris described by Ashmead nnder Mcsi/nis unv 

 \\itli the Eui'opean forms so admirably described by the Abbe 

 Kieffer. It is here described as new: 



* I am convinced that the association of this family with the 

 Scolioid wasps and the Chrysididae is eminently natural and that any 

 resemblance with the Serphoid (Proctotrypoid) forms is purely super- 

 ficial. 



