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longer than fifth (0.25 mm.), 0.34 mm. long and nearly 1.3 times as 

 long as fifth. Intersclerital membrane and sternites dark testaceous 

 yellow. 



Sheath of ovipositor dorsoventrally flattened (basally 0.20 mm. 

 high in profile), entirely shining dark testaceous yellow and covered 

 with appressed minute brownish yellow hairs; longer than in punctata, 

 as long (0.91 mm.) as width of base, at the apex 0.41 mm. long. 

 The median and the shining translucent apical part of ovipositor 

 testaceous yellow; apical part dorsoventrally flattened, its shape in 

 dorsal aspect long-oval, gradually tapering to a narrow, rounded tip. 



Male: Unknown. 



Types: Holotype 9 (FML), Argentina, Formosa, Mision Laishi, 

 December 13-15, 1948, R. Golbach. 



Tomoplagia heringi, new species 



FiGUKES 99,c-e; 102, s; Plate 23, figure 17 



Similar to reimoseri in general aspect, but mesonotum is marked 

 with three linear golden-yellow vittae and the ovipositor differs. 



Female: Length of body 4.0 mm.; wing 4.1 mm. long and 2.0 mm. 

 broad, twice as long as broad. 



Head pale ochraceous yellow, postcranium mostly testaceous yel- 

 low; 0.73 mm. long, 1.27 mm. wide, and 1.09 mm. high. Frons at 

 vertex 0.57 and at anterior margin 0.43 mm. broad, and in median 

 line 0.50 mm. long. Inferior part of cerebral plate slightly raised. 

 Ocellar plate in this species strongly raised, with reddish oscelli. 

 Oral margin of mesofacial plate raised and slightly prominent. An- 

 tennae and mouthparts testaceous yellow, only labella brown; maxil- 

 lary palpi slightly curved, as in reimoseri, but much broader with 

 blunt tip. Postpedicel broad-oval, 0.25 mm. long and 0.16 mm. wide, 

 approximately 1.6 times as long as wide; seta bare shining black except 

 for the thickened ochraceous yellow basal part. Inferior part of 

 postcranium in profile (0.11 mm.) and genae below eyes relatively 

 narrow. Eyes in profile 0.88 mm. high and 0.50 mm. wide, almost 

 1.6 times as high as wide. 



Cephalic bristles brownish yellow. 



Thorax with scutellum 1.8 mm. long and 1.3 mm. wide, pale ochra- 

 ceous to testaceous yellow; mesonotum with the same pruinose 

 pattern as in punctata, that is to say the mesonotum, except for the 

 very narrow, shining hind margin, is covered with silky whitish dust- 

 ing and with very short and somewhat thickish whitish yellow hairs; 

 in the silky whitish pruinosity are three linear vittae of pale golden 

 yeUow dusting, a median vitta and two in the line of the dorsocentral 

 bristles; on each side of mesonotum a broad vitta dusted with the 

 same color. On the hind margin of mesonotum the usual pair of 



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