158 Journal New York. Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



Nirmus stenozonus, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, Fig. 3.) 



Female : Body, length 2 mm.; width .4 mm.; long, slender, pale yellow brown 

 with distinct blackish marginal markings on the abdomen. 



Head, length .4 mm.; width .36 mm.; elongate, conical with a very narrow, 

 slightly convex anterior margin, two short marginal hairs near the front ; a long weak 

 hair in front of the trabeculce which reach as far as the second segment of the an- 

 tennje ; antennse with second segment longest, segment 5 longer than segments 3 or 

 4, color pale yellow brown ; eyes inconspicuous with a short prickle near the posterior 

 margin ; temporal margins flat with one long pustulated hair and a few short prickles ; 

 ground color of head yellow brown with golden brown antennal band, bending 

 sharply in at the antennas ; anterior margins separated by an uncolored clypeus ; 

 temples bordered with narrow band of dark chestnut-brown ; a pale brown shield- 

 shaped occipital blotch surrounded by a V-shaped uncolored marking extending from 

 the dark colored mandibles to the occipital margin. 



Prothorax short with rounding lateral margins ; one hair in the rounding pos- 

 terior angles ; pale golden brown lateral borders ; metathorax trapezoidal with widely 

 diverging sides (posterior angles extending beyond the lateral margin of the abdomen), 

 a few short prickles and one long hair in the posterior angles, posterior margin slightly 

 rounding on the abdomen ; chestnut-brown marginal markings, paling anteriorly after 

 the constriction ; no distinct sternal markings. Legs pale yellow brown, concolorous 

 with the body, with darker marginal markings. 



Abdomen very long and slender with subparallel sides ; abdominal segments 

 gradually widening to segment 6, segment 7 slightly narrower and abruptly tapering 

 with segment 8 ; two hairs in the posterior angles ; segment 8 broadly rounding with 

 slight emargination ; pale yellowish-brown with l^lackish-brown linear bands on the 

 lateral margins of segments I-7 ; last segments without dark markings. 



l\vo females from Miinia iiisoria and Vestiai'ia cocciuea (Hilo, 

 Hawaii Island). The specimen is much like ductilis but shows dis- 

 tinct abdominal blotches. 

 Nirmus diaprepes, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, Fig. 4.) 



Female : Body, length 1. 55 rnm.; width .53 mm.; white, with dark brown to 

 black marginal bands, brown median abdominal markings. 



Head, length .46 mm.; width .4 ram.; conical, front slightly concave, with five 

 marginal hairs placed equidistant in front of the trabecule, a few dorsal hairs ex- 

 tending beyond the margin ; trabeculse large, uncolored ; antennse uncolored, seg- 

 ment 2 longest, 3 and 4 about equal ; segment 5 as long as both segments 3 and 4 ; 

 eye inconspicuous with short prickle ; temporal margins slightly rounding with one, 

 long, weak, pustulated hair in the angle, two short prickles on lateral margin behind 

 the eye ; posterior margin straight, with two stiff bristles near the lateral angle ; 

 ground color of the head yellowish -white, clypeus uncolored, antennal bands rather 

 broader than other body markings, black fading inwardly, distinct interruption in 

 front of the trabeculae ; ocular blotch distinct, black, meeting the temporal bands 

 which grow narrow at the temporal angles and disappear on the occipital margin ; the 

 mandibles chestnut-brown, a shield-shaped occipital signature chestnut-brown, darker 

 in narrow anterior angle. 



