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ME. F. SMITH ON NEW SPECIES OF ACULEATE 



punctured ; the scutellum flat, and with a central longitudinal 

 impressed line ; the metathorax concave-truncate, the cavity- 

 black ; wings dark fuscous, with a violet iridescence, along tlie 

 course of the nervures is a more or less hyaline line. Abdomen 

 shining ; the first segment campanulate, and with rather strong 

 distant punctures ; the rest of the segments more finely punc- 

 tured ; the red lateral margins of the second segment have a 

 united red spot. 



Male. Length 3 J lines. Very closely resembling the female ; the 

 terminal hook of the autennsB red. Thorax — two ovate spots on the 

 scutellum, also two beneath wings, frequently united ; the second 

 segment of the a^bdomen has a larger spot at the sides, and no red 

 band on the apical margin. 



Hah. Kauai. 



This species is not rare on Kauai. {T. B.) 



Group o/Odynerus totonacus, Saussure^s American TF«s^s,p.346. 



Odtnerus montanus, n. sp. Female. Length 6 lines. En- 

 tirely black and shining ; wings deep brown-black, with a violet 

 iridescence, very brilliant ; the stigma and costal nervures bright 

 Btecl-blue. The clypeus convex, finely punctured, with the apex 

 truncate. Thorax not so strongly or closely punctured as the 

 bead ; the scutellum flat, the postscutellum slightly convex, shi- 

 ning, and sparingly punctured ; the metathorax concave-truncate ; 

 having a central longitudinal channel ; obliquely rugulose in the 

 middle, the sides coarsely rugose. Abdomen — the first segment 

 campanulate, strongly but not very closely punctured, the apical 

 margin rebordered ; the second segment very convex, elevated to 

 a subcorneal shape, finely and not very closely punctured; its 

 apical margin, as well as the following segments, with large shallow 

 punctures. 



Male. Length 5 J lines. Closely resembling the female; the 

 clypeus more strongly punctured, the terminal hook of the an- 

 temisB rufo-piceous, the thorax and abdomen as in the female. 



Hah. Mountains of Oahu, where it is common. {T. B.) 



Odtneeijs coNaEurs, n. sp. Female. Length 4J lines. Black, 

 punctured, and shining ; the wings fusco-hyaline, with a dark fus- 

 cous stain along the anterior margin of the front pair. The head 

 with distant fine punctures ; the clypeus very convex, and with 

 a small truncate projection at its apex, impunctate, or with only 

 a few very fine distant punctures. Thorax smooth and shining 



