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irregular])' oval-shaped, blackish-brown, large spots on centre 

 of each segment, reaching the anterior but not the })osterior 

 border, the last segment almost ■wholly black ; the genital 

 organs large, shining black; dorsum with sparse, yellow, short 

 pubescence and longer hairs at sides, thickest on the first 

 segment ; underside almost wholly blackish, shining. Legs 

 yellowish, shining, upperside of femora blackish^ apices of 

 tibiae and tarsal joints brown ; bristles on legs chiefly 

 yellowish or white. Wings hyaline, apex and posterior 

 border grey ; veins brown, the small transverse vein just 

 beyond middle of discal cell; first posterior cell long and 

 narrow, the fourth closed. 



Female identical ; the ovipositor long, black, including the 

 seventh and eighth segments, compressed at sides. 



[To be contiuued.] 



