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parently the same species in the collection of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry taken by ]\[r. Ehrhorn in llunolnln 

 and labeled "from Frosoplus",. which is one of our inmiigrant 

 Cei^amhycidae. 



The hitherto known Hawaiian species of Sclevodermn are 

 supposed to be endemic and are, as has been said, parasitic 

 upon lepidopterous larvae. So far as I have been able to 

 examine them characters have been seen which suggest their 

 separation into a group of perhaps subgeneric rank owing to 

 the presence of rudimentary ocelli in the female. The present 

 species is known only in the female sex and has not the 

 slightest trace of ocelli. It is believed to be an immigrant 

 perhaps from the Orient and is here described as new. 



Scleivdenna tininif/rans sp. nov. 



Female apterous, ocelli and scutellum entirely lacking. Head oblong, 

 anterior, lateral, and posterior margins almost straight ; eyes oval, 

 facetted, more than twice their length from the occipital margin of the 

 head and about twice their width from each other ; with broad distinct 

 malar and genal spaces; mandibles stout and tridentate ; antennae ap- 

 proximate, inserted near the anterior margin of the head, 13-jointed; 

 scape slightly incrassate, curved, about one-third the length of the flagel- 

 lum; pedicel one-half the width of the scape, about as long as the first 

 three joints of the fiagellum ; flagellum stout, broadest at the base of the 

 apical segment which is a little longer than broad, the other segments 

 broader than long. 



Thorax a little narrower than the head, nearly twice as long as 

 broad, broadest in the middle where the pleurae project beyond the 

 mesonotum; pronotum narrowed abruptly in front to a marrow neck, 

 behind this evenly but slightly wider to the mesonotum, a little longer 

 than wide, the posterior margin nearly straight ; mesonotum subtriangu- 

 lar, evenly rounded behind ; propodeum a little longer than broad 

 slightly broader behind, rounded down to the declivity. 



Legs rather stout; anterior femora somewhat incrassate; anterior 

 and middle tibiae a little shorter than their femora; hind tibiae a little 

 more slender and a little longer than their femora; tarsi longer than 

 their tibiae or femora, the basal joint about as long as the three follow- 

 ing joints together, apical joint about as long as the two preceding 

 joints together. 



Abdomen broader than the head, elongate, a little longer than the 

 head and thorax together; first tergite rounded, occupying but little of 

 the dorsal aspect of the abdomen, tergites two, three, four subequal in 

 length, a little broader than long; tergites 2-5 with the posterior margins 

 triarcuately depressed; ultimate segment acute. 



Testaceous sometimes drying to piceous, tergites 1-5 castaneous ex- 



