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with coxae, trochanters, and femora pale or faintly brownish to 

 whitish, sometimes touched with fuscous. Hind tibiae blackish or 

 dark brown on basal half, apical portion brownish. Tarsi of all legs 

 light brown, apices tipped with dusky. 



Antennal scape of usual shape, slightly fusiform, and slightly 

 longer than club. Pedicel about one and one-third times as long as 

 wide and about three-fifths as long as first funicle joint. Funicle 

 joints successively slightly shorter and slightly wider distad. First 

 funicle joint a trifle more than twice as long as wide; third funicle 

 joint about one and one-half times as long as wide. Club as long as 

 two preceding funicle joints united and about one and one-third 

 times as wide as third funicle joint (fig. 69). 



Mandibles with one small but well defined ventral tooth and a 

 broad dorsal truncation. One of the ventral peg-shaped spines un- 

 usually stout as shown in Figure 172. 



Fore wings faintly infumated. Submarginal vein plainly longer 

 than marginal, postmarginal produced as far distad as stigmal. 

 Cilia on disk rather coarse beneath veins, becoming finer and denser 

 toward apex of wing. Marginal fringe short. 



Basitarsus of middle legs about as long as following joints united; 

 tibial spur about two-thirds as long as basitarsus. Paired tibial 

 spurs of hind legs slightly unequal. 



Scutellum (in tag mount) about as long as wide and as long as 

 mesoscutum. Abdomen slightly longer than wide (6:5) and as long 

 as thorax, broadly rounded at apex. In balsam-mounted specimens, 

 the abdomen appears almost rotund; ovipositor short, arising near 

 middle and not at all exserted. 



Mesoscutum and scutellum densely setose, scutellum also with a 

 pair of strong apical bristles. Each parapsis with six setae. Each 

 axilla with two setae. Eyes with pubescence extremely fine and pale, 

 almost imperceptible. First three abdominal tergites with black 

 hairs on either side, following tergites with a complete band of hairs 

 across dorsum. 



Blackened portion of mesoscutum, axillae, and scutellum strongly 

 reticulated. The reticulations on sides of axillae only slightly longi- 

 tudinally lengthened, the difference hardly appreciable in tag- 

 mounted specimens. 



Measurements in mm. : Scape 0.2256 long by 0.0392 wide. Pedicel 

 0.06 long by 0.0448 wide. First funicle joint 0.1080 long by 0.0504 

 wide ; second 0.1024 long by 0.0560 wide ; third 0.0880 long by 0.0568 

 wide. First club joint 0.0880 long by 0.0752 wide; second 0.0512 

 long by 0.0712 wide; third 0.0464 long by 0.0504 wide. Marginal 

 vein 0.34 long; submarginal 0.42 long. 



