396 ^- A. GlHAULT, 



present also on the next three joints, but less extensively. Proximal 

 Joint of posterior tarsi slender, not compressed. 



Fore wings smoky from the bend of the submarginal vein to 

 the apex, the smokiness Clearing up somewhat at the apex and 

 divided by a transverse crescentic clear line at the center of the 

 marginal vein, clear proximad. Marginal and submarginal veins 

 slender, moderately long, the postmarginal vein somewhat longer 

 than the short stigmal. Discal ciliation of fore wings uniform, short, 

 close and dense, the marginal ciliation very short, fine. Posterior 

 wings with the discal ciliation coarser but still fine, moderately 

 dense, its marginal ciliation somewhat more distinct; the wings 

 hyaline. 



Sculpture of the body rugoso-punctate but not coarsely so. 



(Type. The following species.) 



1. JParaffuaya inilchripennis n, sp. 



Normal position. 



Female, Length 3 mm, average. 



General color dark metallic bluish, the front of the head bluish 

 green, the antennal scape brownish, the flagellum coppery excepting 

 the pedicel beneath, which is brownish, the legs dark with metallic 

 greenish reflections, the tarsi brownish-black; flagellum nearly like 

 the legs. Tip of the ovipositor yellowish-brown ; beneath, the ab- 

 domen with a transverse silvery band near base. Fore wings sooty 

 from the bend of the submarginal vein distad to apex but the fumated 

 area becomes considerably clearer beyond the apex of the venation, 

 and at the middle of the marginal vein is divided by a convex 

 clear path, the convexity proximad. Venation brownish-black. 



Antennae clavate, scape long, somewhat longer than pedicel and 

 first three funicle joints combined, slightly curved; pedicel obconic, 

 twice the length of the first funicle Joint; the latter quadrate; second 

 and third funicle joints cylindrical, moderately long, subequal, each 

 about thrice the length of the proximal Joint; fourth funicle Joint 

 of about the same length but thicker; fifth and sixth subequal, a 

 half shorter ; seventh and eighth subequal, slightly shorter than the 

 sixth, decidedly longer than the first; club wider, ovate, obliquely 

 rounded from one margin, the joints wäder than long and subequal 



