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more or less testaceous; legs brownish testaceous to dark brown or 

 nearly black; forewing with a dark fuscous cloud behind marginal 

 vein and enibr;icing its whole wicUli, hyaline basaily, and subhyaline 

 :apically beyond apex of stigmal vein ; abdomen blackish. 



Head with cheeks rounded; frons about two-fifths as broad at its 

 narrowest ])oint as the greatest v.idth of head; malar space equal to 

 more than half the height of eye and with numerous coarse bristles 

 studding its surface; ocelli in a low triangle; ocellocular line a little 

 longer than the diameter of an ocellus; frons shining, more weakly 

 sculptured than the rest of head. Scape not quite reaching level of 

 front ocellus; ring joint subquadratc. Prescutum extending dis- 

 tinctly beyond middle of mesoscutum; concave posterior portion of 

 mesoscutum perfectly smooth, polished, and very nearly bare; pro- 

 podeum smooth and entirely bare, the elevated flange at middle of 

 metanotum distinct. Anterior femur broadest beyond middle, with 

 some weak bristles on the obliquely truncated apical margin ; posterior 

 femur not thickened, a little broader before than beyond the middle, 

 and with a very delicate carina on approximately the apical half of 

 its ventral margin. 



Forewing about two and one-half times as long as broad ; marginal 

 vein about twice as long as stigmal vein and one-third longer than 

 postmarginal; costal cell mostly bare but with a few cilia basaily and 

 ;a single short row of about six hairs on the under surface near where 

 submarginal vein begins to curve toward margin of wing ; area behind 

 submarginal vein basad of beginning of curve entirely bare; clouded 

 portion of wing densely clothed with short, flattened, scalelike hairs, 

 the remainder of wing densely covered with normal cilia. 



Abdomen about as long and as broad as thorax; basal two segments 

 dorsally shining and nearly smooth, remainder of abdomen with 

 distinct sculpture and less shining; hypopygium reaching a point 

 approximately one-third the length of abdomen before its apex; ovi- 

 positor sheaths exserted about one-third the length of abdomen. 



Male.—luength 1.8-2.25 mm. Black, more or less distinctly tinged 

 with metallic green or bronze; face and pleura sometimes brownish; 

 legs concolorous with sides of thorax, tinted with metallic; anterior 

 tarsi dark; intermediate and posterior tarsi white with two apical 

 segments brownish; wings hyaline, venation brownish; abdomen 

 uniformly black with slight metallic tints. 



Lateral ocellus about its own diameter from eye margin ; malar 

 space equal to more than half the eye height; scape slightly thickened 

 be,yond middle and not reaching front ocellus; pedicel about twice 

 :as long as broad; ring joint broader than long; first funicular segment 

 iipproximatoly as long as pedicel but distinctly thicker, about one and 

 a half tinjes as long as thick; last funicular segment subquadrate; 



