250 Dr. R. C. L. Perkins on a 
with very long hair ; underside of abdomen with glittering 
white hair. 
¢ .—Length about 5°5 mm. 
Like the female, but clypeus yellow except the sides and 
very broad upper margin; labrum with a very large yellow 
spot ; supraclypeal mark broadly triangular; scape black, 
faintly reddish at extreme base ; stripe on cheeks shorter ; 
all the tibize yellow on outer side ; band on sixth abdominal 
segment. Apex of abdomen broadly rounded and obtuse. 
Island of Penang (Baker, 9289). 
Related to C. obtusicauda, Ckll., from Java, but distin- 
guished by the spot behind tubercles, a character of 
C. philippinensis. ‘The specific name is derived from the 
marks at the sides of the second and third abdominal seg- 
ments, resembling hands pointed at each other in accusation. 
The sculpture of the lateral areas of mesothorax is unlike 
that of C. philippinensis. 
XXUL—On a new Genus and Species of Bird of the Family 
Drepanididee from the Hawaiian Islands. By R. C. L. 
Perkins, D.Sc., F.Z.8. 
DySMORODREPANIS, gen. nov. 
Nearest to Psvttactrostra, but distinguished primarily by 
the form of the beak. Maxilla strongly decurved, compressed 
so as to be cariniform, and extending beyond the mandible 
for a distance equal to one-third (or more) of its full length. 
The nostril is subreniform, the lower margin of the operculum 
being rounded ; numerous antrorse pale setiform feathers 
project over it from the base, and a few black sete, longer 
than these, reach right to the apex. Seen in profile the 
mandible has its upper and lower margin subparallel on the 
basal part, but before the middle of its length they curve 
strongly upwards. ‘The tip alone is received in the maxilla, 
about midway between its apex and the nostril, so that for 
most of the length of the mandible. there is a free space 
between its edge and that of the maxilla and no co-adaptation 
at all. ‘he upper margins of the mandibles are strongly 
bent inwards and would afford protection to the tongue lying 
in the deep channel between the inner edges. ‘lhe tongue, 
which had been dry for years, even after long soaking in 
water and subsequently in potash, could only be very im- 
perfectly studied, but apparently it agrees in general with 
