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posterior margin of the pronotum with similar whitish hair; scutellum 

 with scattered black hair and a fine, silky, pale pubescence on the basal 

 margin, the apical fascicle of hair very much shorter and sparser than 

 in the female ; abdomen provided with a fine, soft, sparse pubescence 

 above, and with three long, bristle-like, blackish hairs on each side behind 

 the middle, whicli shorten toward the apex ; the vibrissae subbasal and 

 very long. 



Length: .91 to 1.45 mm. 



Frontovertex deep chrome (Ridgway), face and cheeks creamy white; 

 center of occiput and postorbital region connecting with a spot on cheeks 

 next to the eyes black; notum of thorax ochraceous orange (Ridgway) 

 with the pronotum except laterally, an oval to subtriangular mark on the 

 anterior part of the scutum usually reaching about to the middle, more 

 rarely to the base, sometimes the axillae medially and scutellum on basal 

 margin, a spot on apex of scutellum sometimes connecting with the basal 

 spot, the metanotum and the middle part of the propodeum black; abdo- 

 men black, with the lateral margins from the vibrissal plates to apex 

 yellow. Antennae dusky yellowish, the scape pale yellowish with the 

 lower margin at base including the whole radicle joint and the dorsal 

 margin on apical half black, the base of pedicel blackish. Front legs, 

 the middle legs except coxae, and the hind coxae and femora yellowish 

 white ; upper margin of the front femora dusky, their tibiae and tarsi 

 slightly more brownish ; the middle tibiae on basal half except at the 

 extreme base somewhat fuscous ; the middle coxae, apex of the last 

 joint of the front and middle tarsi, dorsal margin of the hind femora 

 except at base, and the hind tibiae and tarsi black. Front and hind 

 wings entirely hyaline, the veins very pale or dilutely fuscous. 



Descriljcd from 1 female, 4 males (type, allotype and ]iara- 

 Types) reared fi-rmi Saisseiia hemisphaeHca (Targ'. ), on ferns, 

 Honolnln, Oalm, IMareh, 1005 (Alexander Craw) ; 7 females, 

 fi males (paratypes) reared from Saissefia nlf/ra ( Xietncr) on 

 ferns, Honolulu, Xov., 1917, to Fel)., 1918 (Fullaway) ; 1 pair 

 (paratypes), Palolo Valley, Oaliu, Dec. 26, 1914 (Swezey) : 

 2 females (paratypes), Honolulu, Oct, 10, 1915, and Dec. 10 

 1917 (Swezey, Timherlake) ; 7 females (paratypes) from Sais- 

 f^cfia lionisphaerica on coleus, and 3 females, 5 males (])ai"a- 

 types) from Saisseiia nigra on. ferns, Honolulu, ^Fav 0-lS, 

 1919 (Timberlake). 



Also from the followinc; foreion uiaterial : 1 female. 1 

 male (paratypes), IManila, Philippine Islands (G. Oomjiere) ; 

 4 females (paratypes), Larat, Dec, 1907 (F. ^fuir) and 1 



