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labrum, thinly pilose ; postclypeus metallic green with a small buff spot 

 on the dorso-lateral margin, the anteclypeus with a triangular, median 

 light spot, the remainder dark ; labrum buff, but provided with a me- 

 dian, circular, black spot ; exposed portions of the mandibles and their 

 trochantins buff; eyes uniform brown. 



Thorax : prothorax bronze and black, thinly pilose ; caudal lobe 

 of the pronotum convex and projecting caudo-dorsad, the caudal 

 margin entire ; proepimeron distinct ; pleural sutures all marked with 

 buff-colored stripes, the interpleural suture distinct, cephalad of the 

 metathoracic spiracle ; metepimera largely buff but with a median longi- 

 tudinal stripe of bronze; intersternum with two dark spots on the 

 cephalic border which unite with a dark line covering the suture 

 caudad of it and between the epimera ; paraptera subtriangular, black, 

 the caudal margins nearly straight ; legs striped, buff and black, the 

 coxae and trochanters buff with a few darker spots, the femora and 

 tibiae mostly dark with lighter stripes on the caudal surfaces, the front 

 femora with nine or ten setae in each row, and the tarsi and claws 

 black ; wings clear, the basal fourth, or more, bright carmine, anteno- 

 dals of the front wing nineteen or twenty, the stigma much longer 

 than the cell caudad of it (Fig. 78). 



Abdomen metallic green or reddish brown, dull with age; seg- 

 ments three to seven with pale basal rings, interrupted on the dorso- 

 meson, the lateral surfaces of terga two to seven with a pale longi- 

 tudinal stripe from base to near apex ; first tergum with a pale lateral 

 apical spot; anal appendages (Figs. 34,38) with the superiors twice 

 as long as the inferiors, curved and somewhat expanded at the apex, 

 the lateral margins tuberculate, the mesal margins with two rounded 

 knobs. 



Female. — Color, metallic green and in general lighter than that 

 of the male. 



Head as in the male except that the antennae have the basal seg- 

 ment entirely pale ; postclypeus with a large transverse green spot, and 

 the labrum with a black mesal spot on the dorsal margin. 



Thorax with the dorsal carina lined with buff, the pleural sutures 

 with much broader stripes than those of the male; wings (Fig. 74) 

 without carmine at the base, but slightly smoky on the basal third 

 and along the costal margin ; stigma white, and the antenodal cross- 

 veins about twenty-one in number. 



Abdomen metallic green above, the lateral surfaces of the terga 

 with darker apical spots on segments one to nine, and terga two to 

 seven with narrow basal rings of paler color which are interrupted 

 on the dorso-meson; anal appendages of the usual type; ovipositor 



