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cept at the sutures, eyes black, mesonotum, mesopleurae, middle femora, 

 and head somewhat darker than the other light portions of the body. 



Head, thorax and abdomen minutely tessellate, shining, the propo- 

 deum somewhat duller. Head with a few scattered minute punctures. 

 Antennae minutely pubescent ; head, thorax and abdomen, particularly 

 at apex, with a few scattered hairs ; front and hind tibiae sparsely 

 ciliate within, middle tibiae densely so on the outer side. 



2.75 mm. long. 



Described from 13 individuals taken from the pods of Acacia farne- 

 siana on Diamond Head road, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, on November 

 23, 1917, where they were parasitizing the larvae of the bruchid Caryo- 

 bonis goiiagra. Of these one has been designated as the tjpe and depos- 

 ited in the collection of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. The re- 

 maining are in the collection of the author and are designated as 

 paratypes. 



Scleroderma immif/rans does not seem to be able to para- 

 sitize any great proportion of the larvae of Caryohorus gonagra. 

 I should estimate that not more than 10% of the cocoons exam- 

 ined in the place where it was fonnd were affected and T have 

 not fonnd it elsewhere in Honolnlu upon this host. If Mr. 

 Ehrhorn's material are, as I have supposed, of the same spe- 

 cies, we may expect it to attack various other species of coleop- 

 terous larvae. 



A Eupelmine Occasionally Attacking Brucliidae, Forming 

 the Type of CJiaritopodinus gen. nov. 



While sweeping for material on an embankment in the rice 

 fields at Waikiki where seeds of Leucaena glauca were scat- 

 tered on the ground and being attacked by the Bruchus prui- 

 ninus, I took a single wingless female of a dark blue Eupel- 

 mine which I later placed with seeds of Prosopis juliflora in- 

 fested with Bruchus prosopis. After a time she was observed 

 in the act of oviposition and on a later examination of the seed 

 in which oviposition had taken place there was found a pupa 

 of the Prosopis bruchus which appeared to be too far advanced 

 for the development of the parasite. There had been deposited 

 two of its elliptical eggs, one on the dorsal side of the thorax 

 and the other on the ventral side of the abdomen. Another 

 pupa of B. prosopis in about the same stage was later found 

 with a full-fed larva on the dorsal aspect of its abdomen and 



