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in some examples, but in others quite clear, "with the apex only 

 infuscate; the flagellum black or brownish black, the coxae 



slightly darkened and metallic at the base, at least outwardly, 

 the mesosternum is brownish or pitchy with metallic reflection, 

 the mesepleura very distinctly metallic in front, but elsewhere 

 slightly or not at all ; the ovipositor yellowish. 



Head appearing finely shagreened, and with very shallow 

 punctures; thorax clothed with pale pubescence, appearing 

 shagreened from the close reticulate surface sculpture and with 

 very shallow obsolescent punctures ; scutellum and axillae also 

 shagreened, the propodeum smooth and shining ; wings hyaline, 

 faintly yellow-tinged, the neuration pale, but darker basally. 

 Abdomen sculptured, having a close microscopic reticulation of 

 the surface ; ovipositor short, about as long as the basal joint of 

 the hind tarsi. Length 2.5 mm. 



Male dark metallic blue, the thorax with more or less green 

 reflections, the legs dark, with the knees, tips of tibiae, and 

 tarsi obscured or sordidly pale; base of ab'domen brightly 

 metallic blue, the rest black with dark purplish tinge. 



Scape of antennae subtriangular, the lower side strongly 

 rounded, the lower apical angle being rounded off or effaced; 

 the pedicel much smaller than the first of the funicle joints, 

 which do not differ much from one another, being mostly rather 

 longer than their greatest width, and densely short-haired, no- 

 ticeably more so than the pedicel. Thorax appearing shagreened 

 from dense microscopic reticulation and with feeble punctures, 

 the propodeum smooth and shining. Wings hyaline, clearer 

 (not yellow-tinged) than in the female, a large oblique hairless 



