INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 143 



pedicel and club brown ; first, second and third joints of funicle 

 about as long as wide ; fourth slightly longer than third ; meta- 

 notum medially smooth, polished ; propodeum with a median 

 carina, with a basal row of pits and one along each side of 

 median carina and a row replacing lateral folds ; between these 

 latter smooth; anterior half of mesopleurae reticulated; pos- 

 terior half smooth, polished, except below where a narrow line 

 of reticulations extends almost across smooth portion from 

 anteriad ; below this a few horizontal striae ; metapleurse faintly 

 reticulated ; stigmal vein almost as long as postmarginal, the 

 latter about three-fourths as long as marginal ; legs, including 

 coxse, reddish-testaceous ; posterior coxse bronzy green, mid 

 coxas with an outward tinge of this color ; mid tarsi and an an- 

 nulus near base of hind tibiae whitish ; basal joint of hind tarsi 

 dusky ; forewings from base of marginal vein almost to apex 

 of wing dusky and with dark cilia ; a hyaline band from near 

 base of marginal to base of stigmal, interrupted medially, ex- 

 tends across wings ; extreme apex of wing hyaline ; hind wings 

 hyaline ; stigmal vein almost as long as postmarginal ; hind 

 tibiae exteriorly with a mid longitudinal row of small white 

 spines and another row at rear ; fiirst abdominal segment 

 smooth, rest of segments, except smooth apical margins, reticu- 

 lated ; first segment short ; second and third segments shorter 

 than first ; fourth longer than second and third, its apical 

 margin gently emarginate; fifth as long as second, third and 

 fourth ; sixth slightly shorter than fourth. 



Male. — Length, 2.2 mm. Similar to male, except in second- 

 ary sexual characters, but blue-green in color ; sculpture of 

 head and thorax more delicate; wings hyaline; stigmal vein 

 over half as long as postmarginal ; all coxae metallic blue-green ; 

 fore and mid femora and all tibise brown, with a slight metallic 

 tinge ; hind femora green ; tarsi brown ; no annulus on hind 

 tibise. 



Type locality, Dallas, Texas. Reared from Otidocephalus 

 carinicollis. 



