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about twice as long as thick, the third somewhat shorter, the fourth 

 longest but not quite as long as the two preceding joints combined, 

 provided with two or three short setae on the inner side near apex 

 and one longer seta at the apex. Labial palpi three-jointed, basal 

 and apical joints each about thrice as long as thick, the middle joint 

 nearly twice as long as thick. 



Thorax robust, about one-half longer than wide, not quite so thick 

 dorsoventrally as wide and convex above; pronotum strongly arcu- 

 ate; mesoscutum nearly twice as wide as long, its posterior margin 

 sinuate and with a small median lobe projecting over the inner tips 

 of the axillae; the latter rather long at the sides, somewhat sep- 

 arated medially by the projecting lobe of the mesoscutum but 

 actuallj'' meeting underneath this, the suture separating them from 

 the scutellum very indistinct or obsolescent, so that they are prac- 

 tically fused with the scutellum ; excluding the axillae the scutellum 

 is quadrangular with the apex acute, its disk rather strongly de- 

 pressed, the margins not very strongly elevated yet abruptly de- 

 clivous. Propodeum extremely short medially or almost separated 

 into two moderately large sidepieces, of which the posterior halves 

 are declivous and largely concealed by the base of the abdomen; 

 metapleura very small and narrow. 



Abdomen as long as the head and thorax combined, its base nar- 

 rower than the thorax, its outline as seen from above in the form 

 of a very acute isosceles triangle ; the dorsal surface deeply sunken in, 

 the cereal plates retracted almost to the basal margin; the venter 

 considerably compressed, the apical ventrite vomeriform and in- 

 closing the ovipositor, which is slightly protruded. 



Legs long and slender, excepting that the front and hind femora 

 are compressed, the front femora being broader than the hind pair, 

 middle legs distinctly longer than the hind pair, the tarsi tapering, 

 the tibial spur long; hind tarsi about as long but much slenderer 

 than the middle tarsi. 



Wings rather small and narrow, but reaching much beyond the 

 apex of abdomen; discal setae very fine and dense, becoming finer 

 and hj^aline in the arcuate band just beyond the apex of venation, 

 the basal fourth of the disk bare ; speculum narrow and very distinct, 

 yet reaching hardly more than one-half the way across the disk; 

 submarginal vein slender, marginal about twice as long as wide, 

 postmarginal very short but distinct, stigmal vein about as long as 

 the marginal and postmarginal veins united, and reaching about 

 opposite to the middle of the costal margin. 



Head with a very fine, dense, thimblelike puncturation and with 

 sparse, well scattered, very minute pin punctures; mesoscutum 

 smooth and shiny yet with a delicate, very fine reticulation and with 

 minute setigerous punctures; axillae and scutellum opaque from a 



