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bases yellowish, mesopleura) blackish, shining and punctured; scutel 

 stramineous; stigma and veins mostly brownish; legs stramineous, 

 hind tibiae with the apical fourth blackish; propodeum blackish, 

 shining, finely punctured; basal area quadrangular, wider at base 

 than at apex; areola hexagonal, almost diamond-shaped, a little 

 wider at apex than at base, the costulaB joining it at its middle, petio- 

 larea apparently a little longer than the areola and about twice as 

 %\dde as the same, at least three times as wide at apex as at base; 

 petiole but little longer than the postpetiole, stramineous at base, 

 blacldsh beyond, gradually widened, sparsely sculptured; postpetiole 

 blacldsh, longitudinall}' striated, a little narrower at base than at 

 apex, distance between the spiracles approximately half the distance 

 between them and apex; second segment proportionally similar to 

 the postpetiole, ^vith a triangular blackish area on each side, the short- 

 est side of the triangle being at the base of the segment, otherwise the 

 second segment is yellowish, the gastrocoeli oval, at base, and strami- 

 neous ; basal half of third segment 3^ellowish ; rest of abdomen inf us- 

 cated stramineous; sheaths of the ovipositor a little longer than the 

 second segment and stramineous; hypopygium exserted beyond the 

 pygidium. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14334, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Mysore, India, September 3, 1909, from Opliiusa 

 mdicerta, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



