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ing narrow hind margin; some erect blackish hairs around the usual 

 black spots on the hind region and three yellowish brown-dusted 

 golden shining vittae, one in median line and two on dorsocentral 

 line; the two whitish dusted vittalike interspaces between them are 

 narrower than these; the lateral brown vittae terminate posteriorly in 

 the usual black wide oval spots and are narrower than the whitish 

 dusted lateral sides of the mesonotum. A long oval black dot above 

 wing base (below supra-alar bristle) on both sides of the type specimen, 

 and a subtriangular spot behind (beneath) wing base. Pleura shining, 

 except the sparsely whitish pruinose, subshining mesopleuron and 



Figure 9S .— Tomoplagia monostigma: a, lateral view of head; b, lateral view of ovipositor 

 tip; c, dorsal view of ovipositor tip; d, dorsal view of apex of female abdomen; e, scutellum, 

 postscutellum, and mediotergite. T. minuta: f, lateral view of head. T. cressoni: g, 

 right maxillary palpus, superior surface; h, lateral view of head; i, lateral view of apex of 

 female abdomen; ;, scutellum, postscutellum, and mediotergite; k, dorsal view of 

 epandrium. 



sternopleuron; pleura marked with two of the most common black 

 spots; one large spot on sternopleuron below bristle and a double spot 

 occupying lower half of ventral pleurotergite, extending over inferior 

 part of dorsal. Scutellum shining translucent ochraceous yellow with 

 some brownish black hairs on sides. The large median region of post- 

 scutellum testaceous yellow, whitish dusted, the small lateral parts 

 black. Mediotergite shining, intensive testaceous yellow. 



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