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lower half of the mesopleura, wings ahiiost colorless with a imi- 

 -formly distributed brownish tinge^, costa blackish, stigma yellowish 

 stramineous, rest of veins l)roAvnish stramineous, bullae whitish, 

 cubitus beyond second transverse cubitus mostly paler than the 

 other veins, areolet petiolate, receiving recurrent vein beyond its 

 middle, the petiole shorter thaii the shortest side of areolet, wing 

 hase yellowish-stramineous, tegulse mostly yellowish with a pale- 

 stramineous margin, fore and mid coxae and trochanters pale-stra- 

 mineous, hind coxa? lirownisli stramineous, hind trochanters pale- 

 stramineous, rest of fore and mid legs mostly bro^mish-stramineous 

 except claws and empodia which are more or less bro'^niish to black- 

 ish, hind femora reddish-brown, hind tibia? and tarsi bro^TOish- 

 stramineous with the former darker near the base and at apex 

 than elsewhere, hind claws and empodia concolorous with those of 

 fore and midlegs, claws pectinate; propodeum black, finely sculp- 

 tured and pubescent with silvery pubescence, exareolate beyond 

 the basal transverse carina, the latter obtusely angulate in the 

 middle, basalarea triangular, apical transverse carina incomplete, 

 propodeum apparently shorter from base to apex, than wide at base, 

 rather rugulose beyond the basal transverse carina, not at all de- 

 pressed down the middle; abdomen shining, covered with pale 

 pubescence and rather fusiform, truncate at apex, first segment 

 with its basal two-thirds subcylindrical, its apical third convex 

 but broader than thick dorso-ventrally, black throughout, petiole 

 with a fossa on each side, spiracles distinctly nearer to each other 

 than to the apex, second and third sternites yellowish stramineous, 

 second tergite black except for the apical third which is mostly 

 reddish, rest of tergites reddish except the sixth which has a black 

 ■stain on its basal half above, thyridia rather oval, brownish much 

 nearer the base than to the spiracles and as near the lateral edge 

 as to the base, spiracles of second tergite apparently nearer the 

 base than the apex and not much more than their own width from 

 the lateral edge, sheaths of ovipositor blackish and hardly longer 

 than the apical, truncature of abdomen. 



Angitia aestivalis sp. nov. 

 Type.— N'o. 11183, M. C. Z. 



