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Ovipositor sheath in the specimens examined strongly flattened 

 dorsoventrally, much shorter (0.79 (0.93) mm.) than basally wide 

 (1.34 (1.34) mm,), and slightly longer than apically wide (0.68 (0.70) 

 mm.); at base only 0.30 (0.30) mm. high in profile; entirely subshining 

 testaceous yellow, covered with fine and short appressed hairs. 

 Median part (rasper) reddish j^ellow; the arrowhead-shaped shining 

 and translucent, testaceous yellow apical part of ovipositor is charac- 

 teristic for this species. 



Type : In Museum of Sao Paulo and in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 

 Rio de Janeiro, 



Type locality: The States of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero in 

 southern Brazil. 



Specimens examined: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Tinheiro, cf, 9, June 

 27, 1940, P. A, Araujo "De cecidias em caule de Vernonia. T. 

 rudolphi Lutz & Luna, det. C, Lima, 8480 and 8482 col. ENA." (in 

 coll. Escuela de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro); Sao Paulo, 9, May (in 

 USNM); Parana, Curitiba, 9, December 1940, Claretidno (in FML). 



ToniopUigia salesopolitana, new species 



Figures 101, e,/; 102,/; Plate 26, figure 26 



A small species of the obligua-monostigma-minuta group, similar to 

 minuta, differing from this species by the black markings of the 

 abdominal tergites and by other characters given in the key. 



Male: Length of the body 4.0 (3.8) mm.; wing 4.0 (3.7) mm. long 

 and 1.6 (1.5) mm. broad, approximately 2.5 times as long as broad. 



Head pale testaceous to ochraceous yellow, 0.68 (0.66) mm. long, 

 1.09 (1.04) mm. wide and 0.91 (0.88) mm. high. Frons at vertex 0,50 

 (0.48) and at anterior margin 0.36 (0.36) mm. broad, and on median 

 line 0,45 (0.45) mm, long. Oral margin of mesofacial plate raised and 

 prominent. Inferior margin of cerebral plate slightly raised. An- 

 tennae and mouthparts pale testaceous j^ellow, maxillary palpi almost 

 straight and long-oval in shape. Postpedicel broad-oval, 0.23 (0.20) 

 mm, long and 0.17 (0,15) mm, broad, slightly more than 1,3 tim.es as 

 long as broad; seta bare, shining black except for the thickened 

 testaceous yellow basal fifth; about 2.5 times as long as postpedicel or 

 slightly longer. Eyes in profile 0,77 (0.73) mm, high and 0,43 (0,41 

 mm. long (or wide), 1.8 times as high as wide. Inferior region of 

 postcranium in profile 0.12 (0.16) genae below eyes only 0,05 (0,06) 

 mm, wide. 



Cephalic bristles pale brownish yellow; the usual garniture present. 

 Anterior pair of the incurved lower orbital bristles (ori) shorter and 

 weaker than the two posterior pairs and subequal to the posterior pair 

 of recurved upper orbital bristles (ors); the two posterior ori subequal 

 to the anterior ors, and the slightly longer ocellar bristles are subequal 



