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of Ccraptcroccrns: head in general shape similar to the female but much- 

 thinner and the frons not so prominent; frontovertex slightly wider than 

 long, the ocelli in a nearly equilateral triangle, the poster^ )r pair about 

 their own diameter from the eye-margins and the occipital margin; 

 cheeks considerably longer than the eyes and very strongly convergent 

 towards the mouth; face wider than long, obliquely reflexed and meet- 

 ing the frons in an acute angle, with a prominent median ridge from the 

 oral nearly to the frontal margin, and deeply, somewhat triangularly hol- 

 lowed on either side of the ridge. Antennae inserted moderately far 

 apart near the middle of the face nearly on a line with the anterior cor- 

 ners of the eyes, the scape very short, excluding the radicle no longer 

 than the pedicel and the first funicle joint combined, compressed and 

 twice as long as wide ; pedicel no longer than thick ; flagellum slender 

 and elongate, not thickening towards the apex, the funicle joints with 

 long, subverticillate hairs, the club with similar scattered hairs shorten- 

 ing towards the apex; the first funicle joint somewhat longer than the 

 second to fourth, the last two still longer, the first a half longer than 

 wide, the fifth about twice as long as wide, the sixth a little shorter, 

 each, especially the second to the fifth, deeply incised at tht.; articulations 

 so that the second to fourth are subtriangular ; club nearly as long as 

 the last two funicle joints combined, narrow, acute at apex and solid. 



Mesoscutum much larger than in the female and much longer or 

 hardly a fourth wider than long ; axillae triangular, being longer and 

 not so wide and more distinctly separated medially ; scutelluin much 

 smaller or no longer than wide and much shorter than the scutum ; abdo- 

 men about the same as in the female although hardly wider than the 

 thorax and less rounded on the sides. Wings much wider and shorter ; 

 the disk not inflated and uniformly ciliated, with the cilia before the 

 speculum but slightly larger and extending in a group across the disk, 

 the basal bare area much smaller ; the marginal, postmarginal and stigmal 

 veins all shorter but keeping about the same proportions to each other. 



■Face shining and very finely or microscopically reticulate ; fronto- 

 vertex finely, closely granular and rather opaque ; mesoscutum finely, 

 transversely reticulate, sometimes appearing minutely rugulose, and but 

 slightly shiny; scutellum crowded with fine granular reticulations some- 

 what longitudinally lengthened, appearing velvety opaque in some lights 

 and metallic in others, the declivous part of the apical margin becoming 

 smooth and polished ; axillae, propodeum, pleura and abdomen compara- 

 tively smooth and shining. Pubescence except on the eyes more abund- 

 ant than in the female ; frontovertex with six rows of fine hairs inclined 

 backward, and a few hairs on the occipital margin inclined forward ; the 

 pubescence on the mesoscutum more distinctly arranged seriately ; the 

 fine hairs on base of scutellum longer, the anterior pair of bristles more 

 widely separated. 



Length : .68 to .86 mm. 



General color black and weakly metallic in large part : frontovertex 

 brown; the face with a slight greenish luster; scutellum sliohtly inetallic ; 



