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femora which are greyish-black and the dark tips of the distal 

 tarsal joints. Wings hyaline, the venation whitish. Scape fulvous, 

 the flagellum coppery. Ocelli pinkish, the eyes carmine. Nearest in 

 color to nigroaeneous Ashmead and in kind of thoracic pubescence 

 to incertus Ashmead, Pubescence of mesonotum white bnt the 

 individual hairs not broadened or depressed and directed cephalad 

 but slender, inclined caudad, yet with the same appearance as the 

 others against the blue background, namely like burnished metallic 

 elongate dots; on the pronotum a Single line of them transversely ; 

 on the scutellum sparse; present also on the face and Vertex. Ab- 

 domen with pubescence on the sides of the segraents ventrad on\j. 



Parapsidal furrows half complete from the cephalic margin, 

 faint; scutellum simple. Metanotum with median and lateral carinae; 

 abdomen somewhat longer than the head and thorax combined, 

 conic-ovate, not produced much beneath, the posterior margin of 

 Segments 2 and 3, dorsad, not excised medially, straight. Clypeus 

 finely longitudinally lined, its anterior margin glabrous, with three 

 lobes, one of which is median, its posterior margin regularly convexly 

 rounded. Lateral ocelli elliptical, more than their own length from 

 the eye margin. Eyes bare. Head and thorax umbilicately punctate, 

 including the metanotum between the lateral carinae and also its 

 neck, the cephalic halves of the abdominal Segments and metanotum 

 laterad delicately reticulated. Metathoracic spiricle moderately large, 

 subreniform. Median carina of metathorax complete, simple, not crossed 

 by a transverse carina. Spiracular sulcus short and broad. 



Fore wings with fine discal ciliation, the marginal cilia ex- 

 ceedingly fine. Postmarginal vein a third longer than the stigmal, 

 over half the length of the marginal, the submarginal distinctly 

 longer than the latter. Posterior wing with the ciliation of the 

 fore wing. Tibial spurs Single; genal sulcus distinct; mandibles with 

 four distinct teeth, the outer, lateral tooth acute, the second and 

 third shorter, subobtuse, the inner broader, broadly obtuse. 



Antennae inserted about in the middle of the face, the bulbs 

 separated but little, the scapes reaching to the cephalic ocellus, 

 18-jointed scape, pedicel, 3 ring-joints, 5 funicle joints and 3 club 

 joints. Scape somewhat longer than the pedicel, 3 ring-joints and 

 first funicle Joint combined, c^'lindrical ; pedicel obconic, moderately 

 long but slightly shorter than tlie first funicle Joint; 3 ring-joints 

 gradually, reciprocall}^ enlarging distad, button-like, distinct; first 

 funicle Joint longest of funicle, a flfth longer than the second, the 



