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E^'TOMOLOGICAL PEOGEA:Nr. 



Description of an Interesting New Crabro from Kauai. 



BY WALTER M, GIFFARD. 

 (Presented by F. Muir.) 



MeJanocnihcro discrepans sp. n. 



MALE. Black ; second segment of abdomen with a yellow- 

 ish white dorsal fascia near its base, widest towards the sides ; 

 fourth segment with a yellowish white spot on the side, some- 

 times very small or entirely wanting ; fifth segment with entire 

 fascia at base; sixth with lateral spot. Front legs pale, espe- 

 cially on the anterior surface, tibia not flattened. Clypeus 

 slightly produced in front, subangular in middle and covered 

 with silvery pubescence. Mandibles black, the underside regu- 

 larly fringed with yellowish hairs, iVntennae with apex of sixth 

 joint prominently and strongly produced ventrally. Head and 

 thorax dull, rugosely sculptured and covered with long white 

 hair. First joint front tarsus subterete, slightly flattened be- 

 neath ; about as long as the four distal joints together. Abdo- 

 men with basal segment extremely finely punctured, sparsely 

 clothed with short, inconspicuous hairs ; second to fifth closely 

 and finely punctured, the short hairs becoming more numerous 

 posteriorly; sixth and seventh more coarsely punctured, the lat- 

 ter emarginate at apex, hairs much longer, projecting beyond 

 hind margin, those on the underside also long and projecting 

 beyond the hind margin like a fringe. Beneath, the second seg- 

 ment is somewhat shiny, finely punctate, slightly convex and 

 sparsely clothed with fine hairs, the following segments dull and 

 strongly depressed. 



HAB. Forests and mountain slopes of Kauai, 4,000 feet 

 elevation. 



Described from 2 taken at Kaholuamano, September, 1909 

 (Giffard), and 1 at Waialeale, June, 1913 (Hardy). Tj^oes 

 in author's collection, 



OBS. This comes near to curtipes Imt is easily distin- 

 guished from it by the first front tarsus not being flattened, and 

 the hind tibiae flattened anteriorly, causing the posterior half 

 to be somewhat carinate dorsally ; the second abdominal sternite 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. Ill, No. 2, July, 1915. 



