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 Epyris exh-aiteiis s]). iiov. 



9 Lentil, about 6mm. Black; mandibles yellowish; antennae 

 largely, tegulae, femora more or less, tibiae and tarsi largely piceus. 



Head square, sparsely punctate, shining; mandibles half the length 

 of the head, swollen toward the apex, hirsute outwardly, a broad 

 longitudinal margined groove beneath; emarginate within toward the 

 middle, beyond this with one large denticle and three smaller ones, 

 apex acute and bent down and inward, beneath and within the apex 

 another denticle and a series of flat spinules; malar space almost 

 absent; eyes glabrous, a third longer than their distance from the 

 occipital margin of the head; hind ocelli a little less distant from 

 the hind margin of the head than from each other or the anterior 

 ocellus and about four or five times farther from the eye than from 

 each other. Antennae tapering towards the apex and very finely 

 pubescent, scape large, curved, hirsute, not quite as long as the four 

 succeeding joints; joints two and three narrower and somewhat 

 shorter than those succeeding which are sub-equal and a little longer 

 than broad. 



Pronotum a little longer than wide, broadening posteriorly where 

 it attains the width of the head, with coarse sparse punctures. Meso- 

 notum not half the length of the pronotum, impunctate except for a 

 few small punctures on either side of the expanded portion of the 

 parapsidal furrows, these expanded and slightly converging posteriorly, 

 exterior furrows not percurrent. the three lobes subequal. Scutellum 

 about as long as the mesonotum, subtriangular, impunctate, the basal 

 pits broadly elliptical, arranged obliquely a little outside the ends of 

 the parapsidal furrows, distant from each other about four times 

 their length. Propodeum as long as the mesonotum and scutellum 

 together, square, margined, with five longitudinal carinae, the outer 

 carinae slightly converging behind, distant from the lateral margins, 

 area outside the carinae finely transversely striate; declivous portion 

 slightly concave, margined, finely transversely striate and divided by a 

 shallow longitudinal furrow; sides of propodeum finely longitudinally 

 striate. 



Wings yellowish with the venation and stigma yellow; stigma 

 oval; median cell broader than the submedian; the basal vein oblique, 

 inserted at the base of the stigma; submedian cell longer than the 

 median; transverse vein as long as the basal, arched, with a very 

 slight trace of a vein arising from before its middle; radius twice 

 as long as the basal, not attaining the apex of the wing by more 

 than its own length. 



Anterior femora greatly expanded and thickened, broader and 

 longer than the other femora; anterior tibiae not particularly larger 

 than the middles ones; middle tibiae spinose; anterior tarsi longer 

 than their tibiae, the first four segments bearing long stout flattened 

 obtuse spines on the outer margin and similar shorter spines beneath, 

 the metatarsus as long as the next three joints together, these as 

 broad as long. 



^ 4 to 5 mm. long. Slenderer than the female. Antennae black, 

 longer than the head and thorax together; scape not longer nor much 



