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bus : antennae breviusculse : caput transversum sed crassius quam 

 praecedentibus, in formam rotundato-cubicam accedens : occiput 

 subtilius marginatum : abdomen subsessile aut subpetiolatum, 

 ovatum convexum, segmento 2 do . longe maximo (e duobus con- 

 flato), 3 tl0 . perbrevi, reliquis plerunque retractis : aculeus recondi- 

 tus, valvulis minutissimis ovatis, vagina decurva subulata : alarum 

 anticarum stigma trigonum crassum, areolam cubitalem 2 dam . fere 

 aut revera contingens, areola radialis ab apice alae longe remota, 

 semilunata, stigmate non longior, antica disci perparum remota, 

 brachiales conterminae ; nervus recurrens interstitialis. 



Sectio A. 

 Segmento l mo . vix longiore quam latiore. 



Sp. 7. L. mitis. Niger antennis et pedibus ochraceis. 

 (Long. corp. 1± ; alar. 3 lin.) 



Niger nitidus : antennae corpore paulo breviores parum teretes 

 23-articulatae, obscure ochraceze : os pal pique concolores : meso- 

 tboracis scutum sulculis punctatis postice conniventibus, medio 

 laeve : metathorax granulatus pubescens : abdominis segmentum 

 l mum . aciculatum, tuberculis prope basin sitis, basi ipsa, constric- 

 tum : pedes ochracei, postici obscuriores, coxae nigricantes : alae 

 hyalinae nervis et stigmate dilute fuscis, radice et squamulis 

 ochraceis. Videtur esse femina. a 



Sectio B. 



Segmento l m0 . elongato attenualo. 

 (B.) a. 

 Mesothoracis sulculis ordinariis punctatis. 

 fSp. 8. L. orchesiae. Curl. Br. Ent. 476. No. 1. 



Sp. 9. L. pallipes. Mas et Fern. Niger antennis basi et 

 pedibus ochraceis ; thoracis dor so et scutello vage punc- 

 tatis pubescentibus ; petiolo obconico, striolato, tuberculis 

 inconspicuis. (Long. corp. 1|; alar. 2| lin.) 



Curt. Br. Ent. 476. No. 1. 



Niger nitidus : antennae nigro-fuscae basi ochraceae, femince 21- 23- 

 articulatae longitudine capitis cum thorace et petiolo ; mari longi- 



a I have seen but one individual of this species, which appears to have sus- 

 tained some injury in the pupa, as its wings are not fully expanded. Possibly 

 the unusual shortness of the first segment may have been produced by accident 

 also, as in its other characters the species agrees with those of the following 

 section. 



