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tion of the forewing is very dark and broken by numerous hyaline 

 spots. 



Female. — Length 1.35 mm. Head viewed from in front subtri- 

 angular, a Httle broader than high, the antennal groove deep and 

 extending to the front ocellus and only a little broader below than 

 above; antennae inserted below the eyes; head, viewed from above, 

 as broad as thorax, about twice as broad as long; occiput concave 

 and immargined; vertex broad and flattened, nearly horizontal; 

 frons vertical and forming nearly a right angle with the plane of 

 vertex; ocelli in an obtuse triangle, the front ocellus at the anterior 

 margin of plane formed by vertex, the posterior ocelli about as far 

 in front of the occiput as distant from each other; head granularly 

 punctate and opaque above, the cheeks and lower portion of temples 

 finely reticulate and shining; antennae 10- jointed; scape subcylin- 

 drical; pedicel almost twice as long as broad, longer and narrower 

 than the first funicle joint; one very small transverse ring joint; 

 funicle 4-jointed, the joints subequal in length and subquadrate, all 

 thicker than the pedicel, the dorsal margin of first slightly oblique; 

 first and second joints very slightly thicker than the third and fourth; 

 club ovate, a little longer than the two preceding funicle joints com- 

 bined, distinctly thicker than the funicle, the sutures very indistinct; 

 pronotum short; parapsidal grooves complete; mesoscutum and 

 scutellum sculptured like the head, the scutellum longer than broad, 

 moderately convex and without dorsal grooves ; propodeum reticulate- 

 punctate but more weakly sculptured and more shining than the 

 scutellum, without distinct lateral folds but with a very delicate 

 median carina; spiracles minute; mesepimeron mostly polished, 

 remainder of pleura sculptured like the dorsum of thorax; forewings 

 reaching to apex of abdomen; abdomen about twice as long as head 

 and thorax, smooth and shining, the first and second tergites emargi- 

 nate at the apical middle; ovipositor slightly exserted. Head dark 

 metallic green or purplish beneath; frons purplish black with about 

 four transverse spots or bands of metallic green on each side along the 

 inner eye margins, the antennal groove metallic green; vertex pur- 

 plish black with three longitudinal stripes of bright metallic green 

 and an additional spot of the same color behind each eye; antennae 

 aeneous black, a spot at extreme base of scape and the fourth funi- 

 cle joint either entirely or for the most part white, its apex sometimes 

 blackish; thorax purplish black wdth three longitudinal stripes of 

 metallic green extending from the anterior margin of praescutum to 

 the apex of scutellum and a shorter, less distinct, longitudinal stripe 

 on each scapula and extending on to the axillae; propodeum and 

 pleura violaceous; wings hyaline at base and apex with a small 

 fuscous spot at apex of submarginal vein and a large fuscous cloud 

 embracing the whole width of wing behind the marginal and stigmal 



