Nc-a' Species of Sicrola, With Exploi]aiory Notes. ill 



than wide by a half, width l>etween the eyes equalling the length from eye 

 to vertex ; length in front of the eyes not great ; convex above and beneath ; 

 vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes flatly convex ; antennae not 

 much longer than the head, pedicel twice as long as wide, first six funicle 

 segments as wide as long, the following segments longer than wide, antennal 

 fossje deep; clypeus short, carinate, almost vertically depressed and project- 

 ing slightly in front of the anterior margin of the head, the carina extending 

 backward a little on the top of the head; mandibles slender, curved, truncate 

 apically and toothed, base touching the eye above ; gula convex, a little fore- 

 shortened medially^ anterior margin arcuately concave, posterior margin 

 incised, sides of the head flat ; propodeum finely sculptured, brilliant ; abdo- 

 men elongate ovate, smooth and polished ; wings subinfuscate ; length 2.25 

 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected on Palolo Hill trail, Oahu, 

 by P. H. Timberlake, April 7, 1916, and numbered 16. 



Type : Cat. No. 77. Bishop Museum. 



78. Sicrola hrcvicaiida n.sp. 



9 shining black, a little dull ; antennae yellowish brown at the base, out- 

 wardly fuscous, legs fuscous basally, outwardly yellowish brown, mandibles 

 reddish apically. 



Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine reticu- 

 late surface sculpture, coarser on the head, very delicate on the scutellum ; 

 closely, shallowly and fairly coarsely punctate and hairy. Head longer than 

 wide by a half, width between the eyes a little more than the length from 

 eye to vertex ; flatly convex above, depressed in front, convex beneath ; ver- 

 tical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes convex ; antenna? reaching the 

 scutellum, all the segments longer than wide, pedicel more than twice as long 

 as wide, antennal fossae deep ; clypeus carinate, apically depressed and pro- 

 jecting slightly in front of the anterior margin of the head, sloping at the 

 sides, tlie carina extending backward on the top of the head to the anterior 

 margin of the eyes ; mandibles slender, curved, twisted and flattened out- 

 wardly, truncate apically and toothed, base not reaching the eye ; gula and 

 sides of the head rather flat, the former narrowing behind, where it is indis- 

 tinctly divided into two lobes by a shallow median depression, anterior mar- 

 gin almost straight ; propodeum finely rugulose ; abdomen short ovate, 

 smootli and polished ; wings hyaline ; length 2 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected in Xuuanu Valley, Oahu, 

 by D. T. Fullaway, March 4, 1912. 



Type : Cat. No. 78, Bishop Museum. 



79. Sicrola kilaiica n.sp. 



9 dull shining black, legs and antennje yellowish brown, the latter fus- 

 cous outwardly, the former fuscous basally, mandibles reddish at apex. 



Head and thorax with a microscopically fine and close reticulate sur- 

 face sculpture ; finely, shallowly and closely punctate ; clothed with fairly 

 long silvery hairs. Head somewliat longer than wide, widest across the 

 eyes, narrowing behind and in front, width between the eyes more than the 



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