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the sides and venter of abdomen clothed with a moderately long, soft, 

 whitish pubescence. 



Length: 1.09 to 2.0 mm. 



Head dull yellow, the cheeks brownish to blackish, the center and 

 lower part of occiput black ; thorax brownish yellow, often darker or 

 becoming decidedly brownish on the axillae and scutellum ; propodeum, 

 metapleura and abdomen more or less dark brown or brownish black. 

 Antennae black, the scape with an annulus at base near the radicle 

 joint and an oblique band before the apex white. Legs paler yellowish 

 than the body, the coxae pale brown, the upper margin of the front and 

 hind femora and tibiae often slightly brownish, the apex of the last 

 joint of the tarsi dark brown or blackish. Wings hyaline, the veins dark 

 brown. 



Male : Head considerably thinner than in the female ; the eyes much 

 smaller and not greatly longer than wide ; f rontovertex a little wider 

 than long; the ocelli in an obtuse-angled triangle, the posterior pair fully 

 their own diameter from the 'eye-margins and about one-third as much 

 removed from the occipital margin ; face and cheeks proportionately 

 longer than in the female; the scorbes in the form of short, parallel 

 sulci reaching to the middle of eyes. Antennae inserted much more re- 

 motely from the clypeal margin or on a level with the lower corners of 

 the eyes ; the scape much shorter and narrower, being about a third as 

 wide as long ; pedicel hardly longer than thick ; flagellum cylindrical, 

 not thickened distad ; the funicle joints incised on the upper side at the 

 articulations, the first joint about four times as long as thick, the follow- 

 ing joints somewhat shorter; each joint with a full whorl of long hair 

 at the base and a half whorl at apex on upper side ; club solid, as long 

 as the last two funicle joints combined, pointed at apex, with hardly 

 verticillate hair gradually shortening towards apex, the lower margin on 

 basal half set with a row of five short, clavate hairs. 



Abdomen smaller, depressed and plane above, the venter with a 

 median plica. Wings shorter and proportionately wider, the marginal 

 vein much shorter or about one-half as long as the stigmal. Pubescence 

 of face somewhat thicker, that of the frontovertex a little longer and 

 more erect. 



Length: .6g to 1.29 mm. 



Head yellow, the frontovertex orange yellow with the ocellar region 

 more or less black; face with a more or less distinct, narrow, transverse 

 brownish band between the lower corners of the eyes; scrobes, ventral 

 margin of the cheeks and most of the occiput black; dorsum of thorax, 

 metapleura and abdomen brownish black, the mesonotal sutures laterally 

 more or less yellowish ; mesopleura and sternum brownish yellow, the 

 propleura brighter yellow. Legs and wings as in female; the antennae 

 blackish with apical half of the flagellum often yellowish brown, the 

 basal third of the scape and lower margin at apex white, the two pale 

 areas often connected along the lower margin on the inner side. 



