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proacb the description closely. A peculiar niiiqiie is believed 

 to he the S . Tt is described as follows: 



Male black, only tlie anterior face of the front tibiae, as usual, and 

 the front tarsi a dull orange yellow, and the flagellum of the antennae 

 dull reddish beneath. Face a trifle broader than long, not convex longi- 

 tudinally, moderately emarginate l)eliin(l, dull, front roughly rugulose, 

 fairly closely 1)ut not deeply punctate, clotlied with pale hairs, smoother 

 alongside the antcnnal fossae, where tlicre is a well marked depression, 

 the clypeus with rather large punctures towards the apex, cheeks very 

 short, the base of the mandibles nearly touching the eye, the supraclypeal 

 plate wide and short, the anterior margin nearly twice as long as tlie 

 lateral, antenna! scape strongly dilated though evidently longer than wide, 

 posterior margin strongly curved, anterior margin straight, punctate 

 above, arched beneath. Mesonotum and scutellum dull but not exces- 

 sively so, and even with a faint sheen in certain lights, the former with 

 a microscopically t"ine surface sculpture and shallowly thoual: fairly 

 closely punctate, the latter somewhat more deeply and closely pitted and 

 both clothed with pale silvery hairs. Propodeum rugose, the anterior 

 area with an irregular network of wrinkles extending to the brow. 

 Abdomen more or less dull, the wings of the "th ventral segment rather 

 wide as in assiiiiulniis and tlie process of tlie 8th ventral segment ex- 

 panded at the liend, tlie upper arm fairly long with a fringe of long 

 hairs above and bifurcated outwardly somewliat as in coniccf^s. Wings 

 clear. 



ViciXA — riciiia. Iroar and conncclcns a])])ear to l)e closely 

 related forms. Is there not uronnd for considerinii' only (mv 

 species present ^ The complex has a representative on each isl- 

 and in the gronp. Kanai, Oahn, ]\Iolokai and Mani examples 

 are brighter than the Hawaii ones, bnt the genitalia are nni- 

 forni thronghoiit, confirming the closoiu'ss of the rdiitioiishi]). 

 It is impossible to separate l-oac and riciiia for instance on tli;' 

 presence or absence of yellow markings on the snpracly])ea! 

 plate and hind tihiac when Kanai examples resemble th:' Ha- 

 waii ones, with OmIiu, ^[olokai and ]\[ani examples different. 



Umca — iniir((. ]((fir('j).s and Irduaiciisis form anothei' com- 

 ])lex simihir to the ])re('eding. 



X K( ; l.K( 'TA ll('(/l('cf(l:=^]l (l]('(ll-((J(l('. 



(\)MKS — bears a strong resend>lance to coniccps. I have 

 not material to conijiare the genitalia. 



CoNK'iiPs — A common form at Kilanea. As the descri])- 



