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and pronotum, the posterior half of metanotum, propodeum, and 

 dorsum of abdomen blackish brown, the margins of the latter behind 

 the vibrissae sordid creamy white; collar of pronotum, tegulae, and 

 entire under parts sordid whitish, the collar with a blackish brown 

 dot on each corner, and the tegulae with a pale brown spot on the 

 middle of the posterior margin; metascutum orange brown, and a 

 narrow line on the anterior margin of the metapostnotum whitish. 

 Antennal scape blackish brown, the inner surface with a narrow, 

 yellowish white line on the dorsal margin including base and apex 

 and nearly interrupted just beyond the middle, outer surface the 

 same but the apex more broadly yellowish white and a streak of 

 the same color on the lower margin near base; base of pedicel and 

 club blackish brown; first four funicle joints brownish, last two and 

 apex of pedicel yellowish white. Legs pale yellowish, all tibiae with 

 three blackish brown, rather broad annuli, the third band at apex 

 and on the hind pan- reduced to a spot on the outer surface, the 

 middle and hind tibiae with an additional dot on outer surface 

 at the knee joint; last joint of the tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, 

 but the dense ciliation imparts a slight duskiness; the veins pale 

 yellowish. 



Male. Front and vertex two and one-half times as long as wide; 

 ocelli in an acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair nearly touching 

 the eye margin. Antennal scape about four times as long as wide, 

 widest across the middle, the lower margin slightly rounded; pedicel 

 a little shorter than the first three funicle joints combined; first four 

 funicle joints of equal length and increasing slightly in width, last 

 two somewhat longer and wider, all noticeably wider than long 

 except the first; club oval and rather pointed at apex, hardly wider 

 than the last funicle joint and about as long as the last four preceding 

 joints combined. Length: 1.1 mm. 



Coloration similar to that of the female, but the posterior half of 

 vertex brown and the mesonotum dusky in the middle, sometimes 

 almost the entire scutelluni and the scutum behind the transverse 

 lines dusky, the lateral streaks on the dorsum of the abdomen shorter 

 and more yellowish. Antennae paler, the scape yellowish, with the 

 dorsal and ventral margins narrowly brown; base of pedicel and club 

 brown; first five funicle joints pale brown, becoming pale distad, the 

 sixth joint and apical half of pedicel yellowish. 



Redescribed from five females, three males (co types), reared from 

 Lichtensia species, Punduloya, Ceylon (E. E. Green), Insectary No. 

 6909 01 . 



Type. Cat. No. 3259, U.S.N.M. 



