.Vt'Ti' Species of Sicrola. With Llxpianatovy Xotcs. 149 



touching the eye aliove ; gula and sides of the head flat, the former mediall}- 

 foreshortened, as wide as long, narrowing somewhat posteriorly, where there 

 is a small hut deep sulcus in the median line, anterior margin almost straight, 

 posterior margin incised ; abdomen somewhat depressed, elongate ovate, 

 smooth and polished; wings suhinfuscate, with a yellowish brown pigmenta- 

 tion ; length 2.25 mms. 



Described from two females (type and paratype). Type from Kaala 

 Mountain, Oahu, 2500 ft. elevation, collected by P. H. Timberlake on Pclca 

 chtsiacffllia, Marcli 4, 1917, Second specimen, collected on Kaala Mountain, 

 Oahu, by O. H. Swezey, September i, 1913, paratype. 



Type: Cat. Xo. 152, Bishop Museum. 



153. Sicrola kainmiolwiia n.sp. 



9 shining black, legs and antenna; basally yellowish brown, hind femora 

 and antenn?e apically fuscous, abdomen yellowish brown to piceous. 



Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine and 

 delicate reticulate surface sculpture ; coarsely, shallowly and remotely ptinc- 

 tatc ; clothed with sparse, short, fairly stiff silver white hairs. Head longer 

 tlian wide, w'idth between the eyes more than the length from eye to vertex ; 

 flat above, depressed in front, tumid beneath, the greatest depth beneath the 

 posterior end of the eye ; vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes 

 flat ; antennae nearly reaching the mesoscutum, all the segments longer than 

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

 apically depressed, not projecting 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 rather slender, curved, 

 truncate apically and toothed, base touching the eye above ; gula flatly con- 

 vex, medially foreshortened, a little wider than long, narrowing behind, where 

 there is a slight depression in the groove, anterior margin arcuately concave, 

 posterior margin incised ; propodeum very finely rugulose ; abdomen elongate 

 ovate, smooth and polished ; wings with a deep yellowish brown to fuscous 

 pigmentation ; length 2 mms. 



Described from one female (type) collected on Kaumuohona, Oahu, by 

 P. H. Timberlake, September 9, 1917. 



Type: Cat. No. 153. Bishop Museum. 



154. Sicrola bniniiciirnfris usp. 



9 shining black, legs, antennse basally and apical margin of abdominal 

 segments, particularly at the sides, brown, antennae outwardly fuscous. 



Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine and 

 shallow reticulate surface sculpture ; coarsely, shallowly and fairly closely 

 punctate, but not uniformly so; clothed, rather thickly on the gula, witli 

 delicate silver gray hairs. Head wider than the thorax, longer than wide 

 by a half, length from eye to vertex equalling the width between the eyes ; 

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

 straight, temples rounded, eyes flatly convex ; antennae about as long as tiic 

 head, pedicel a little longer than wide, the following segments wider than 

 long, antennal fossae deep ; clvpeus carinate, apically depressed, hardlv pro- 



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