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has tliouglit it wise to rede^cribe the species with a review of 

 the host records. In accordance with a recent paper hj Cush- 

 man and Kohwer- the species must be placed in the genus 

 Ephlaltes Schrauk. A species that is best referred to ItopJectis 

 is also brought forward as new. 



Ephialtes hawaiiensis (Cameron). 



Pi)iipla liaa-aiicnsis Cameron. Mem. ]^Iaiichester Lit. «S: 

 Phil. Soc., 10 (3rd Ser.), 1880, p. 239, S. 



Pinipla hawaiiensis Ashmead, Fauna Hawaiiensis, 1, pt. 3, 

 1901, p. 339, 9, S . 



Pimpla hawaiiensis Swezev, Ent. Bull., .5, Exper. Stat., 

 H. S. P. A., 1907, p. 42, pi. 5, fig. 5, $ , $. 



Pimpla turianellae Morley, Eev. Ichn., 3, 1914, p. 00. 00. 

 (in part). 



There seems to be considerable confusion in regard to this 

 species, probably arising from the fact that Ashmead failed to 

 describe the female correctly. That the hind legs are entirely 

 red in the female was not brought out, Ashmead merely adding 

 to Cameron's description of the male, which was copied ver 

 batim with one slight omission, the length, and the statement 

 that the ovipositor is less than one-half the abdomen. This 

 may account for Perkins believing that there is a second ••com- 

 monplace PimpW in the Islandst, a record which I cannot ac- 

 cept as all the local collections show but this one species and 

 the new Itopledis descril)ed below. ^Morley has synonymized 

 haicaiiensis with Ephialtes tiirioneUae (Linne) after examin- 

 ing Cameron's type male. While there seems to be no reason 

 to dispute Morley's decision that the male of this species is 

 quite typical of turionellae, this in itself even if entirely true 

 is not sufiicient grounds for synonymizing the species, since 

 two species as in the present case may be quite or nearly iden- 

 tical in one sex and as clearly distinct in the other. 



Hawaiiensis is probably an immigrant from some part of 

 America and Perkins considered that he had seen the same 



* Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington, 20, Apr., 1919, pp. 186-188. 

 t Fauna Hawaiiensis, 2. pt. 6, 1910, p. 676. 



