A't'u' Species of Sicrola, With Exploiiatory Notes. 119 



93. Sicrola iiicita n.sp. 



$ dull shining black; legs, antennae, clypeus and mandibles yellowish 

 brown, the mandibles black at the base and reddish apically. 



Head and thorax with a microscopically fine reticulate surface sculp- 

 ture, very delicate on the thorax ; shallowly, closely and somewhat coarse- 

 ly punctate, tlie punctuation on the tlmrax very fine; liairy clothing short 

 and delicale. Head a little wider tlian tlie thorax, longer than wide by a 

 half, width lietween the eyes equalling the length from eye to vertex, 

 length in front of tlie eyes not great ; convex above and beneath, 

 depressed in front ; vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes flatly 

 convex ; antennae a little longer than the head, all the segments a little longer 

 than 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, the carina extending backward on the top of the head beyond the base 

 of the antennae ; mandibles stout, curved, concavo-convex, truncate apically 

 and toothed, base not quite reaching the eye ; gula convex, not much fore- 

 shortened, anterior and posterior margins arcuately concave ; abdomen ovate, 

 depressed, smooth and polished ; wings subinfuscate, with a faint yellowish 

 brown pigmentation ; length 2.75 mms. 



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

 (3ahu, by P. H. Timberlake, April 4, 1916. 



Type : Cat. No. 93, Bishop Museum. 



94. Sicrola cryptopJilcbiae n.sp. 



9 dull shining black; legs and antennae yellowish brown, mandibles 

 reddish apically. 



Head and thorax with a microscopically fine reticulate surface sculp- 

 ture : fairly closely, finely and shallowly punctate ; hairy clothing short and 

 delicate. Head longer than wide by more than a half, width between the 

 eyes a little more than the length from eye to vertex ; flat above, depressed 

 in front, convex beneath ; vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes 

 flatly convex ; antennae scarcely longer than the head, pedicel a little longer 

 than wide, the following segments as wide as or wider than long, antennal 

 fossae deep; clypeus carinate, apically depressed and projecting slightly in 

 front of the anterior margin of the head, declivous at the sides, the carina 

 extending backward on the top of the head beyond the base of the antennae; 

 mandibles stout, curved, concavo-convex, truncate apically and toothed, base 

 touching the eye above ; gula convex, medially foreshortened, as wide as 

 long, closely punctate, median groove effaced, anterior margin arcuately con- 

 cave, posterior margin incised ; abdomen ovate, apically acuminate, smooth 

 and polished; wings hyaline; length 2.5 mms. 



Described from six females (type and paratypes). Five 9 9 , including 

 tvpe. from Tantalus, Oahu, reared from the larva of Cryptophlebia illcpida, 

 by D. T. Fullaway, June 10, 1910. Four of these specimens and one 9 

 from S. E. Koolau mountains, collected by J. C. Bridwell in 1913, paratypes. 



Type : Cat. No. 94, Bishop Museum. 



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