82 Ncic Sf>rclcs of Sicrola, With Explanatory Notes. 



Head ami tlmrax to llu- pnipiKkiun witli a microscopically fine retic- 

 ulate surface sculpture, linely, shallowly and remotely punctate, hairy cloth- 

 ing short and inconspicuous. Head longer than wide, length from eye to 

 vertex equalling the width between the eyes ; convex above, depressed in 

 front, tumid l^eneath, greatest depth behind the eyes, vertical margin 

 straight, temples rDuncled, eyes Hatly convex; antemue reaching the meso- 

 scutum, segments of the tiagellum scarcely longer than wide, pedicel about 

 twice as long as wide, antennal fossae somewhat shallow ; clypeus short, 

 flat on top, apically depressed and blunt, hardly exceeding the anterior 

 margin of the head, basally marked by converging lines from the sides ; 

 mandibles fairly stout, bent at the middle, distal portion 'flattened, truncate 

 apically and toothed, base not reaching the eye ; cheeks narrow ; gula and 

 sides of the head flat, the former medially foreshortened, longer than wide, 

 narrowing behind, both anterior and posterior margin rather deeply incised ; 

 propodeum rugulose ; abdomen somewhat particolored, elongate ovate, smooth 

 and polished; wings subinfuscate ; length 2.75 mms. 



Described from two females (type and paratype). Type collected at 

 Opaeula, Oahu, by D. T. Fullaway, March 30, 1913. Paratype collected on 

 Mt. Kaala, Oahu, by P. H. Timberlake, July 22, 1917. 



Type: Cat. No. 21, Bishop Museum. 



22. Sicrola aristotcliac n.sp. 



$ black, with the exception of the prothorax, which is yellowish brown, 

 thorax only faintly shining, the head dull, opaque or nearly so; legs, apex of 

 the clypeus, antennae basally and the mandibles, except at the base, luteous, 

 antennae fuscous outwardly. 



Thorax with a microscopically fine reticulate surface sculpture, head 

 coarsely sculptured, apparently minutely granulate ; very finely and closely 

 punctate ; clothed with a rather dense covering of short procumbent hairs. 

 Head a little longer than wide, width between the eyes greater than the 

 length from eye to vertex ; length in front of the eyes not great ; convex 

 above, depressed in front, tumid beneath, the greatest depth in front of the 

 posterior end of the eye ; vertical margin straight, temples rounded ; eyes 

 convex, antennae longer than the head, segments of the flagellum scarcely 

 longer than wide, pedicel nearly twice as long as wide, antennal fossae deep ; 

 clypeus short, projecting a litttle from the anterior margin of the head, longi- 

 tudinally elevate in the middle and sloping at the sides, apex depressed, the 

 carina distinct behind the antennae but eff^aced in front of it ; mandibles stout, 

 curved, concavo-convex, truncate and toothed apically, base touching the eye 

 above ; gula and sides of the head convex, the former not much foreshort- 

 ened medially, longer than wide, anterior margin arcuately concave, poste- 

 rior margin incised ; abdomen short ovate, smooth and polished ; wings hya- 

 line ; length 2.5 mms. 



Described from seven females (type and paratypes), four, including the 

 type reared from the larvae of a species of Aristotctia infesting a Gouldia 

 fruit collected in Palolo by O. H. Swezey, January 11, 1914. Of the remain- 

 ing paratypes, one was collected on Manoa Cliffs by P. H. Timberlake, 

 March 29, 1918; one in the S. E. Koolau Mountains by J. C. Bridwell, Sep- 



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