485 



ccpt at the sutures, eyes l)lack, mesonotum, mesopleurac, middle femora, 

 and head somewhat darker than the other light portions of the Ijody. 



Mead, thorax and abdomen minutely tessellate, shining, the propo- 

 deum somewhat duller. liead with a few scattered minute punctures. 

 Antennae minutely ])u1)escent ; head, thorax and abdomen, particularly 

 at apex, with a few scattered hairs; front and hind tibiae sparsclj- 

 ciliate within, middle tiliiae densely so on the oiUer side. 



2.75 mm. long. 



Described from 13 individuals taken from the pods of Acacia fanic- 

 siaiia on Diamond Head road, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, on November 

 23, 1917, where they were parasitizing the larvae of the bruchid Caryo- 

 boriis goitagra. Of these one has been designated as the type and depos- 

 ited in the collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. The re- 

 maining are in the collection of the author and are designated as 

 paratypes. 



Scleroderma immigrans does not seem to be able to pai'a- 

 sitize any great pro]5ortion of the larvae of Caryohorus gonagra. 

 I slionkl estimate that not more th;iu 10/' of the cocoons exam- 

 ined in the place where it was fonnd were affected and T have 

 not fonnd it elsewhere in Honolnln npon this host. If Mr. 

 Ehrhorn's material are, as I have snpposed, of the same spe- 

 cies, Ave may expect it to attack varions other species of coleop- 

 terons larvae. 



A Eni)elmine Occasionally Attacking Briirhldae. Forming 

 the Type of Chariiopodimis gen. nov. 



While sweeping for material on an embankment in the rice 

 fields at Waikiki where seeds of Leucaena glaiica were scat- 

 tered on the gronnd and being attacked by the Bruchus prid- 

 niuHs, I took a single wingless female of a dark bine Eupel- 

 iiitite which I later placed with seeds of Prosopis jidl flora in- 

 fested with Bruchus prosopis. After a time she was observed 

 in the act of oviposition and on a later examination of the seed 

 in which oviposition had taken place there was foimd a pupa 

 of the Prosopis brnchns which appeared to be too far advanced 

 for the development of the parasite. There had been deposited 

 two of its elliptical eggs, one on the dorsal side of the thorax 

 and the other on the ventral side of the alidomen. Another 

 pnpa of B. prosopis in about the same stage was later found 

 with a full-fed larva on the dorsal aspect of its alxlouieu and 



