17,6 .Vf'Ti' Sf^rcirs of Sicrohi. With lixphuiatory Xotcs. 



12/. Sicrula dhiisa n.s]). 



$ (lull shiiiiiiL; black. k'i;s, aiUoiniR' ami outer half ut nian(lil)K's yellow- 

 ish brown, somewhat intuscatc. 



Head and thorax to the propodeuni with a microscopically tine reticu- 

 late surface sculpture; finely, shallowly and rather closely punctate, and 

 hairy. Head as wide as long, widest across the eyes, narrowing behind and 

 in front, width between the eyes nearly twice the length from eye to vertex, 

 length in front of the eyes not great ; convex above, a little tumid beneath ; 

 vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes convex ; antennie reaching tbe 

 mesoscutum, the pedicel and first and second funicular segments longer than 

 wide, the following segments as wide as long or nearly so, antennal fosss 

 dee]); clypeus carinate, apically depressed and projecting slightly in front of 

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

 l)ackwar(l on the top of the head beyond tiie base of the antenn;e : mandibles 

 slender, curved, truncate apically and toothed, base touching the e_\ e above ; 

 gula and sides of the head convex, the former medially foreshortened, as 

 wide ,is long, anterior margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised ; 

 propodeum finely rugulose ; abdomen elongate ovate, smootii and polished ; 

 wings subinfuscate ; length 2.25 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected on Palolo Hill Trail. Oabu. 

 by P. H. Timberlake, April 9. 1916. 



Type: Cat. Xo. 127. Bishop Museum. 



128. Sicrola sinillls n.^p. 



$ shining ])lack. the head dull ; legs and first three segments of anten- 

 nas luteous. the antenna? fuscous outwardly, mandibles reddish apically. 



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

 late surface sculpture, somewhat remotely and shallowly punctate, the sculp- 

 ture and punctuation of the head coarser than that of the thorax ; clothed 

 with silvery white hairs. Head as wide as long, widest across the eyes, nar- 

 rowing behind and in front, width between the eyes nearly twice the length 

 from eye to vertex, lengtli in front of the eyes not great; convex alwve, 

 depressed in front, ;i little tumid beneath ; vertical margin straight, temples 

 rounded, eyes convex ; antennas reaching the mesoscutum, all the segments 

 longer than w-ide, the pedicel and first funicle segment twice as long as wide, 

 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 slen- 

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

 and sides of the head flatly convex, the former medially foreshortened, as 

 long as wide, anterior margin slightly concave, posterior margin incised ; 

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

 and polished ; wings hyaline ; length 2 mms. 



r)escril)ed from one female (type) collected on Ml. Ka.ala. Oalni, by 

 O. H. Swezey. August 11. 1912. 



Type; Cat. Xo. 128. P>ishop Museum. 



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