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10 (11) Scntellum at most with a few extremely feeble and fine punctures on 



its dull surface, the mesonotum also dull and extremely feebly 

 sparsely punctured, or sometimes both are impunctate or nearly so, 

 (Stigma entirely dark, of a brown colour, not yellow)... 



subopaca, Nyl. 



11 (10) Scutellum sometimes to a greater or less extent shining or polished 



though sometimes dull ; its punctures either distinct or numerous ; 

 the mesonotum either with irregular but distinct punctures, or with 

 close and even ones. 



12 (13) Mesonotum dull and nearly evenly, but not deeply, punctured... 



minutula, Kirby. 



13 (12) Mesonotum often shining in the middle (or even sometimes nearly all 



over) ; always smoother in the middle than in the preceding, the 

 punctures deeper, but often sparser, and notably irregular in size 

 and distribution minutuloides, sp. n. 



14 (9) Face sometimes nearly wholly clothed with black hairs, or if to a 



large extent with brown or pale ones, then the sides of the face 

 along the orbits are well clothed with black ones. 



15 (16) Clypeus clothed with brown or yellowish hairs, and the face above 



with many brownish ones on the scapes of the antennae and about 

 these, the sides of the face with black ones, and there are others of 

 this colour on the sides of the head behind the eyes ; mesonotum 

 mostly or entirely clothed with brown hairs in fresh examples 

 (paler in old ones) parvuloides, sp. n. 



16 (15) Clypeus with longer black or sooty hairs, at least for the most part, 



and many sooty hairs on and about the scape of the antennae ; 

 mesonotum generally clothed with long sooty or sooty -grey hairs. 



17 (18) Stigma more or less dark or brown in the middle ... parvula, Kirby. 



18 (17) Stigma very pale in the middle, yellow. 



(Face almost entirely clothed with black or sooty hairs (some 

 being sooty-grey), mesonotum and scutellum with sooty-grey ones ; 

 thorax sculptured much as in parvula ; wings notably milky-white 

 in some aspects ; 2nd abdominal segment more punctured than in 

 any parvula examined by me ; the punctures shallow, numerous, the 

 apical margin unusually dull, very finely but densely sculptured... 



moricella, sp. n. 

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 1 (2) Mesonotum densely and evenly, somewhat coarsely punctured, the 

 surface between the punctures shining; 2nd and 3rd abdominal 

 segments excessively densely and distinctly punctured, the slight 

 amount of surface left between the punctures shining, their apical 

 impressions distinct or strong, rugulose and bearing a number of 



shallow, scattered, but conspicuous, punctures nana, Kirby 



( = schenchella, Perez). 

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