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with a black band at base, the sixth and seventh segments and ovipositor 

 sheaths entirely black; scape white, flagellum brown, pubescent, about 

 one and a half times as long as the scape; pedicel and first funiclar joint 

 with ring joint, of an equal length, the second joint of funicle slightly the 

 shortest joint, the third a little longer and stouter than the second; legs 

 mostly white, but clothed with a black pubescence ; anterior coxae with a 

 triangular black spot at base a little toward one side, their femora with 

 a row of short black bristles within and along the posterior margin ; mid. 

 die femora, except at base and apex, black, their tibiae with two straight 

 rows of bristles outwardly, their tarsi blackish from the density of the 

 pubescence ; hind coxae and femora outwardly black, their tibiae and tarsi 

 white, but somewhat obscured by the pubescence; the pubescence on the 

 hind margin of the tibiae is arranged to form about seven links of a chain, 



FIG. 7. Elasmus meteori. 



the first and last links or areas being small, while the pubescence on the 

 tarsi is quite dense and entirely hides the white color, except along the 

 hind margins of the joints. 



The head, viewed from in front, is a little longer than wide, the vertex 

 rounded, the frons convex, and with a sparse, thimble-like punctation, 

 about as in R. atratus How., the facial impression distinct, extending up 

 wards to about half the length of the head, where it terminates in a trans 

 verse ridge which sharply separates the frons from the lower part of the 

 face ; thorax nearly smooth, but with a feebly impressed reticulated sculp 

 ture ; postscutellum narrowly margined with white; wings hyaline, pubes 

 cent, the marginal vein a little more than twice as long as the submar- 

 ginal, the stigmal vein minute, sessile. 



<3\ Length i mm. Entirely black or deep blue-black, except the sutures 



