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joint, and somewhat longer than the first two funicle joints combined ; 

 fmiicle moderatel}- increasing in thickness distad, the first joint about as 

 wide as long, the second shorter and transverse, the last two nnicli 

 larger, the third being as wide as long and the fourth slightly trans- 

 verse : club large, elongate oval and pointed at apex, considerably wider 

 than the funicle and almost as long as the pedicel and funicle combined, 

 its first joint the longest and the apical one a little the shortest. 

 Mandibles with a short sharp spine on the ventral margin, the apical 

 margin not greatly narrower than the base, with an acute ventral tooth 

 rather deeply divided from the remaining edge, which is oliliquely inclin- 

 ed and divided into three short rather acute teetli. Paljii short and trans- 

 parent white; tlie maxillary ])air tour-jointed, with the apical joint 

 considerably the longest, the nfiddle joints subequal and about as long 

 as wide, the basal joint a!)out .two-thirds as long as the apical; laijial 

 pair short, wide at the middle and tapering to either end, the basal 

 joint slightly longer than the second. 



Thorax strongly depressed and not very deep, about a fourth longer 

 than wide; pronotum strongly arcuate; mesoscutum nearly twice as wide 

 as long, its posterior margin slightly angulate at the middle ; axillae fully 

 twice as wide as long, being narrowly transverse and meeting at their tips ; 

 scutellum a little wider across the base than its length, the apex forming 

 an angle of about go degrees, the disk fiat, not much elevated and 

 sloping downward around the a])ical margin ; propodeum very short 

 medially, triangularly enlarging towards the sides, the metapleura small. 

 Abdomen depressed with the dorsum slightly sunken in after death, the 

 outline as seen froui above .subtriangular with the basal corners and 

 apex rounded, the length and w-idth about equal to the thorax ; fifth 

 \entrite reaching only to the nfiddle of the venter leaving the ovipositor 

 free beyond this point, the sheaths shortly protruded, slender, terete 

 and abrujitly tapering at apex. 



Legs of normal structure, the middle tibial spur very slender and 

 tapering, almost as long as the first tarsal joint which is equal to the 

 following four joints comliined. Wings reaching far beyond the apex 

 of abdomen and moderately narrow ; disk moderately densely ciliated 

 but more s])arsel\' and coarsel\ in the .angle between the speculum and 

 submarginal vein, nuicli of the rest of the basal area with finer and 

 transparent cilia, the extreme base bare; speculum narrow, reaching 

 practically to the posterior margin and sep;irated from the hairless 

 streak along the margin 1)\ only one row of trans]);irent cilia, much 

 narrowed above and falling consideral)ly short of the venation ; apex 

 of venation not quite reaching to the middle of the wing, the sub- 

 marginal vein somewhat enlarged before its apex although not so dis- 

 tinctly as in diaspidis. the marginal vein ,'il)out Uvv times as long as 

 thick and considerably longer than in diaspidis. the postmarginal and 

 stigmal veins about equal, each nearly a third as long as the marginal, 

 the stigmal triangular, narrow at the base and enlarged at ,'ipex. 



Face finelv reticulate, more delicatelv atid a little more finelv on the 



