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$ smaller; antennal segments beyond the pedicel shorter, hardly longer 
than wide, abdomen bluntly pointed at the apex. 
Described from one female and one male (type and allotype) collected 
at Rewa, Fiji, by F. Muir, March, 10906. 
A male specimen from Ba, Fiji, collected in January, 1906, appears 
somewhat different. 
Type: Cat. No. 172, Bishop Museum. 
2. Sierola sinensis n.sp. 
@ dull shining black to the abdomen, which is smooth and polished, the 
head opaque or nearly so; antenne yellowish brown, fuscous apically, legs 
fuscous basally, tibia and tarsi yellowish brown. 
Head and thorax to the propodeum with a microscopically fine and close 
reticulate surface sculpture, coarser on the head; finely and closely punc- 
tate; hairy clothing short and inconspicuous. Head longer than wide by a 
half, width between the eyes more than the length from eye to vertex; flat 
above, depressed in front, convex beneath; vertical margin straight, temples 
rounded, eyes flat; antennz hardly longer than the head, the pedicel a little 
longer than wide, the following segments as wide as or wider than long, 
antennal fosse 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 on the top 
of the head beyond the base of the antenne; mandibles fairly stout, curved, 
concavo-convex, truncate apically and toothed, base touching the eye above; 
gula and sides of the head flatly convex, the former medially foreshortened, 
as wide as long, anterior margin arcuately concave, posterior margin incised ; 
propodeum rugulose; abdomen ovate, apically acuminate; wings subinfus- 
cate; length 2 mms. 
Described from one female (type) collected at Chin San, Macao, China, 
by F. Muir, December, 1906. 
Type: Cat. No. 173, Bishop Museum. 
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