124 .V('a' Sf'ccics of Sicrola. With lixf^hinatovy Xoies. 



103. Sicrola scrid-a 11. sp. 



9 (lull black, opaque ; legs and anteuuie basally brown, tbe front coxae 

 and tlic antenna" outwardly fuscous; mandibles reddisli apically. 



1 lead and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically tine and 

 close reticulate surface sculpture, a little coarser on the head; very finely, 

 shallowly and closely punctate; liairy clothing long, delicate ;ind rather 

 thick, tiiat on the antenn;e scriccniis. I lead longer than wide by a half, 

 width l)etween the eyes a little more than the length from eye to vertex ; 

 flatlv convex .above, depressed in front, a little tumid beneath, the greatest 

 depth beneath the eye: \ertical in.argin str.aight. temples rounded, eyes flatly 

 convex ; antenn;e reaching the mesoscutuni, all the segments longer than 

 wide, pedicel twice as long as wide, antennal fossae deep; clypeus carinate, 

 apically depressed and projecting slightly in front of the anterior margin of 

 the head, which is angulate, not transverse, declivous at the sides, the carina 

 extending backward shortly on the top of the head ; mandibles slender, 

 curved, truncate apically and toothed, base touching the eye above, lower 

 angle protuberant ; gula and sides of the head flat, the former longer than 

 wide, narrowing behind, anterior margin arcuatelj' concave, posterior margin 

 deeply incised ; propodeum tnnely rugulose ; abdomen elliptical, smooth and 

 polished; wings subinfuscate. with a yellowish brown pigmentation; length 

 2.75 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected at Olinda. Maui. 4200 ft. 

 elevation, by Giffard and Fullaway, May 1.3. 1918. 



Type : Cat. No. 103, Bishop Museum. 



104. Sicrola robiista n.sp. 



9 dull black, ojiaque ; legs and anteniue yelhiwish brown, the feiiiura 

 infuscate ; mandibles reddish apically. 



Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically tine and 

 close reticulate surface sculpture, a little coarser on the head ; finely, shal- 

 lowly and closely punctate ; hairy clothing long, delicate and ample. Head 

 longer than wide by the length in front of the eyes, widest across the eyes, 

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

 the length from eye to vertex ; convex above, depressed in front, tumid 

 beneath, the greatest depth beneath the eye ; vertical margin slightly con- 

 cave, temples rounded, eyes flatly convex ; antennas broken, basal segments 

 all longer than wide, antennal fossae deep ; clypeus carinate, apically depressed 

 and projecting slightly in front of the anterior margin of the head, which is 

 angulate, not transverse, declivous at the sides, the carina extending back- 

 ward shortly on the top of the head ; mandibles slender, curved, concavo- 

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

 anteriorly and sides of the head flat, the former medially foreshortened, 

 longer than wide, narrowing posteriorly, where it is more convex, anterior 

 margin almost straight, posterior margm incised, median groove effaced; 

 propodeum finely rugulose ; abdomen ovate, apically acuminate, smooth and 

 polisli'.'d ; wings subinfuscate ; length 3 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected at Opaeula, Oahu, l)y O. H. 

 Swezey, March 30, 1913. 



Type: Cat. Xo. 104, Bishop Museum, 



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