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abdomen short ovate, sniootli and polished; wings suliinfnscate. witli a 

 faint yellowish brown pigmentation ; length 3 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected in the Waianae Mountains, 

 Oahu, by D. T. FuUaway, March 5. 191 1. 



Type: Cat. No. 116, Bishop Museum. 



117. Sicrola nigra n.sp. 



$ shining black, the legs fuscous basally, tibi.'e. tarsi and antennse yel- 

 lowisii brown, mandibles reddish brown. 



Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine and 

 shallow reticulate surface sculpture ; extremely finely and fairly closely punc- 

 tate ; clothed with short, delicate grayish hairs. Head as wide as long, 

 widest across the eyes, narrowing behind and in front, width between the 

 eyes greater by a half 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 nearly reaching the scutellum, pedi- 

 cel and first funicle segment twice as long as wide, following segments all 

 a little longer than wide, antennal fossse deep ; clypeus short, carinate, api- 

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

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

 extending backward shortly on the top of the head ; mandibles fairly stout. 

 curved, concavo-convex, truncate apically and toothed, base not quite reach 

 ing the eye above, lower lobe slightly protuberant ; gula and sides of the 

 head flat, the former medially foreshortened, wider tlian long, narrowing 

 behind, where there is a slight depression along the median line, anterior 

 margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised ; propodeum rugulose ; 

 abdomen short ovate, apically acuminate, smooth and polished ; wings sub- 

 infuscate, with a faint yellowish brown pigmentation ; length 2 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected on Kaala Mountain, Oahu, 

 by O. H. Swezey, August 11, 1912. 



Type: Cat. No. 117, Bishop Museum. 



118. Sicrola nianoa n.sp. 



9 shining black, the head somewhat dull ; legs reddish brown, man- 

 dibles and antennse yellowish brown, the former black at the base, the latter 

 fuscous outwardh'. 



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

 late surface sculpture; fairly coarsely and remotely punctate, and hairy. 

 Head nearly as wide as long, width between the eyes about twice the length 

 from e\e to vertex ; flat above, depressed in front, conx-ex Ijeneath ; vertical 

 margin straight, temples rounded, eyes convex ; antennas reaching the meso- 

 scutum, all the segments longer tlian wide, pedicel twice as long as wid':-, 

 antennal fossae deep ; clypeus carinate, apically depressed and projecting 

 slightly in front of the anterior margin of the head, which is angulate, not 

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

 the base of the antennse ; mandibles fairly stout, curved, truncate apically 

 and toothed, base not quite reaching the eye above, lower lobe protuberant ; 

 gula and sides of the head flat, the former niediallv foreshortened, wider 



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