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at the outer angle of the hind margin. Hind body black, 

 closely punctured, its exserted setfe short. Legs between 

 black and red in colour, moderately short and stout. 



The S])ecies is excessively similar to the European 

 M. minuta ; it is rather larger and blacker, and the 

 punctuation is not so dense and fine, and the surface, 

 therefore, not so dull. It is still closer to M. gracilis, 

 but it is blacker than it, and the punctuation is not so 

 dense and fine, and the antennas are slightly shorter and 

 finer. 



Mr. Blackburn finds this by beating trees and flowers 

 in the forests about Honolulu. 



MyllfBna curtipes, n. sp. Minuta, rufo-fiisca, dense 

 subtiliter punctata, subopaca, antennis pedibusque sordide 

 rufis, illis articulo ultimo dilutiore. Long. corp. 2 mm. 



Closely allied to M. familiaris , but smaller, and reddish 

 in colour, with the antennas and legs shorter. Also very 

 close to the European M. minuta, but more red in colour, 

 not so extremely densely and finely punctured, and with 

 the antennje and legs a little shorter. The elytra are not 

 longer than, or indeed are scarcely so long as, the thorax, 

 and they have scarcely any excision at their hind angle. 



Found in a heap of refuse on Konahuanui, Oahu, at an 

 elevation of about 3,000 feet. 



Myllcena discedens, n. sp. Elongata, rufescens, abdo- 

 mine fiiscescente, versus apicem cum segmentorum margi- 

 nibus posterioribus rufescentibus ; capite acuminato-ros- 

 trato, oculis debilibus; prothorace magno, convexo, elytris 

 latiore et longiore. Long. corp. extens. 4| mm. 



Antennge slender and elongate, as long as head and 

 thorax, yellowish, but the middle joints of more obscure 

 colour. Head red, small in comparison to the thorax, 

 with the eyes very minute ; the parts of the mouth very 

 porrect, and the maxillary palpi very elongate. Thorax 

 very large and convex, much broader and much longer 

 than the elytra, its hind angles rectangular. Elytra red. 

 Hind body elongate and slender, so that though distinctly 

 narrowed to the apex, it is more linear than in the other 

 species, densely pimctured, but the apical segments less 

 closely, the punctuation is rougher than in the other 

 species, and the surface not so dull. Legs yellow ; the 

 posterior tarsi elongate, as long as the tibi«, their basal 



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