Ii8 .\'(Tv' Sf^ccics (if Sicrola, With li.vplaiiatory Xotcs. 



(; 1 . Sirrchi kaduaiia n.sp. 



9 (lull shining black, antenna; fuscous, legs luleous. 



Head and thorax with a microscopically fine reticulate surface >culi)- 

 ture; uniforndy, closely and shallowly punclale, and liairy : the sculpture 

 and i)unctuati(m t'(iar>er on \\\v head, tlie hair\ clolhiii^ short, stiff and 

 silvery white. Head a little longer than wide, width l)etween the eyes a 

 little more than the U'ngth from c-w to \ei-te\ ; tlat aliove, convex beneath; 

 vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes convex; antennae a little 

 longer than the head, pedicel longer than wide, the following segments 

 hardly so, antennal fossae deep ; clypeus carinate, apically depressed and 

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

 the sides, the carina extending backward on the top of the head beyond 

 the base of the antenn?e ; mandibles long, curved, slender at the base, 

 the distal portion flattened, truncate apically and toothed, base touching 

 the eye above ; gula and sides of the head convex, the former medially 

 foreshortened, as wide as long, anterior margin arcuately concave, poste- 

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

 fuscate, with a faint fuscous pigmentation ; length 2.5 mms. 



Described from two females (type and paratype) collected at Mala- 

 malama, Oahu, by P. H, Timberlake. July 28tli. 1918, on Kadtia aciiiiti- 

 )iata. 



Type : Cat. No. 91. Bishop Museum. 



92. Sicrola gracilariac n.sp. 



$ shining black, the head dull ; legs luteous, anteniue brown to fus- 

 cous, mandibles reddish apically. 



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

 late surface sculpture; hnely and closely punctate, and hairy. Head a little 

 longer than wide, widest across the eyes, narrowing behind and in front, widtli 

 between the eyes a little more than the length from eye to vertex ; flatly 

 convex above, depressed in front, a little tumid beneath ; vertical margin 

 straight, temples rounded, eyes convex ; antennae a little longer than the 

 head, pedicel longer than wide, the following segments as wide as long, 

 antennal fossae deep; clypeus carinate, apically depressed and projecting 

 slightly in front of the anterior margin of the head, sloping at the sides. 

 the carina extending backward shortly on the top of the head ; mandibles 

 long, curved, slender at the base, the distal portion flattened, truncate 

 apically and toothed, base touching the eye above; gula and sides of the 

 head flatly convex, the former medially foreshortened, as wide as long, 

 anterior margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised, depressed 

 along the median line ; propodeum very finely rugulose ; abdomen shortly 

 ovate, smooth and polished ; wings hyaline ; length 2 mms. 



$ a little smaller, head shorter, mandibles and lirst four antennal 

 segments luteous, abdomen bluntly pointed at the apex. 



Described from one female and two males (type, allotype and para- 

 type) from Niu, Oahu, reared by O. H. Swezey from the larva of Gra- 

 cilaria niabaclla. December 11. igio. 



Type : Cat. No. 92, Bishop Museum. 



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