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colored; palpi brown; antennae blackish brown (over 50 segments); 

 legs yellow with meso thoracic and metathoracic coxae dark brown; 

 pronotum medium brown, mesothoracic and metathoracic scutelli 

 blackish anteriorly, pleura dark brown; abdomen reddish brown 

 dorsally, yellowish ventrally. 



FoREWiNG (pi. 2, fig. 3): Average length female 4.8 mm., male 3.9 

 mm., average width female 1.7 mm., male 1.3 mm.; membrane almost 



Figure 21. — Climacia californica Chandler. A, terminal abdominal segments of male, 

 lateral view; B, parameres, dorsal view; C, ninth sternite of male, posteroventral view; D, 

 parameres, lateral view; E, terminal abdominal segments of female, lateral view. 



hyaline with three more prominent and one less conspicuous brownish 

 areas, and three hyaline patches; the first prominent dark brown 

 patch, the basal radiomedial streak, longest and beginning in sub- 

 costal space about where Sc and R almost meet basally and extending 



