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face sculpture; finely and somewhat remotely punctate and hairy. Head 
longer than wide, widest across the eyes, narrowing slightly behind and in 
front, width between the eyes equalling the length from eye to vertex; con- 
vex above, depressed in front, a little tumid beneath, the greatest depth 
directly behind the middle; vertical margin slightly concave, temples round- 
ed, eyes convex: antenne reaching the mesoscutum, all the segments longer 
than wide, pedicel and funicle twice as long as wide, antennal fosse deep; 
clypeus carinate, apically depressed and projecting slightly in front of the 
anterior margin of the head, sloping at the sides, the carina extending back- 
ward on the top of the head beyond the base of the antennz; mandibles 
fairly stout, curved, concavo-convex, truncate apically and toothed, base 
touching the eye above; gula and sides of the head rather flat, the former 
medially foreshortened, a little longer than wide, narrowing behind, anterior 
margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised; abdomen elongate ovate, 
smooth and polished; wings fuscous, with a yellowish brown pigmentation ; 
length 2.75 mms. 
Described from two females (type and paratype) collected on Kaala 
mountain, Oahu, by O. H. Swezey, September 7, 1913. 
Type: Cat. No. 61, Bishop Museum. 
62. Sierola punctata n.sp. 
@ dull black, head nearly opaque, the legs flavous, antennz yellowish 
brown to fuscous. 
Head and thorax with a microscopically fine reticulate surface sculp- 
ture; closely, finely and shallowly punctate and hairy; punctuation on the 
thorax very fine, that on the head coarser. Head longer than wide, width 
between the eyes a little more than the length from eye to vertex; convex 
above and beneath; vertical margin straight, temples rounded, eyes convex; 
antenne a little longer than the head, all the segments longer than wide, 
antennal fosse deep; clypeus reduced by erosion from the sides to a thin, 
carinate ridge, apically depressed and projecting slightly in front of the ante- 
rior margin of the head, the carina extending backward on the top of the 
head beyond the base of the antenne:; mandibles fairly stout, curved, con- 
cavo-convex, truncate apically and toothed, base touching the eye above; 
gula and sides of the head convex, the former medially foreshortened, as 
long as wide, anterior margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised; 
abdomen elongate ovate, smooth and polished; wings with a yellowish brown 
pigmention; length 2.75 mms. 
Described from one female (type) collected on Kaala mountain, Oahu, 
at 2000 ft. elevation, by P. H. Timberlake in sweeping a species of Kadua, 
March 4, 1917. 
Type: Cat. No. 62, Bishop Museum. 
63. Sierola brunnea n.sp. 
2 moderately flat; shining black, the head, pronotum and abdomen 
piceous; legs, mandibles and antennze basally yellowish brown, antennz fus- 
cous outwardly. 
Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine and 
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