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above. Legs : fore and mid legs from coxae to apex of tibia reddish brown, tarsi 

 lighter, rufous-flavescent ; hind coxae black, apex brown ; femur mainly black, 

 with base and apex brown ; tibia externally brown, with the inner edge broadly 

 black ; just before the apical spines this black band leaves the edge and terminates 

 near the middle of the inside apical edge ; the lower apical angle of the tibia brown ; 

 tarsi brown with a slight flavescent tinge, not so pronounced as in the anterior legs ; 

 claws brownish. Antennae : scape (darker slightly at extreme tip), pedicel, and 

 joints 1 and 2 of funicle brown or yellowish brown ; five to ten almost black ; 

 the club lighter but not so pale as the scape, etc. Wings : the membrane of the base 

 up to near the origin of the marginal vein is irregularly clear, though not quite 

 hyaline ; elsewhere (save for the round clear spot at the end of the marginal vein) 

 the wing is more or less darkly tinged. The distinctive pattern, however, is produced 

 by the chaetotaxy (see separate account) ; veins brownish ; hind wings hyahne. 

 Pubescence : on head, prothorax (at side and along anterior edge of pronotum), 

 axillae, propodeon (pleurae and posterior edge), hind coxae (outside), pleurae of 

 abdominal tergites 1, 2, 3 and 6 silvery white, glistening ; on the posterior edge of 

 the pronotimi and inside the parapsidal furrows rather faint yellowish ; on abdominal 

 tergites 3 (above only), 4 and 5 (entirely), 6 (medianly), 7 and 8 are fine brown hairs ; 

 on the ridges above the stylets the hairs are yellowish brown. 



Head wide, exceeding the thorax and equalling the distance between the points 

 of the extended tegulae ; much wider than the abdomen (10:7) ; broadly and deeply 

 excised on the frons and occiput, so that the vertex is reduced to a rounded ridge 

 on opposite sides of which lie the anterior and the lateral ocelli respectively ; the 

 lateral ocelli are within their own diameter's length from fche edge of the eye. The 

 whole head (like the notum of the thorax) umbilicately punctured ; the punctures 

 on the frons finer, especially behind the scapes. 



Antennae (fig. 2, i) set low down, with the usual semicircular flat thin process 

 between the scrobes ; narrow and filiform, of almost the same calibre throughout. 

 Scape (16 : 1), slightly sw^ollen near the base, then narrowed till near the extreme 

 apex, which is again expanded into tw^o flanges to receive the pedicel. The pedicel 

 is about equal to the second funicular joint, which is the longest in the funicle ; the 

 eleventh joint or club is on clearing very distinctly biseptate, but there are no 

 internal articulations comparable with those existing between the other funicular 

 joints. The proportions of the joints, excluding the scape, are : — (pedicel) 18 : 11 : 

 18 : 13 : 13 : 12 : 13 : 11 : 9 : (club) 5:4: 10. In the same ratio the width of the 

 funicle is 6-7. Length of antennae, 2*35 mm. 



Thorax normal in structure and sculpture ; scutellar teeth sharp and wide apart ; 

 pubescence rather sparse ; on pronotum mainly at the sides ; on posterior edge 

 broadly interrupted medianly ; on the mesonotum the pubescence is confined to a 

 single row along the inside of the parapsidal furrows ; the axillae are completely 

 but sparsely clothed. Scutelluni bare. The metanotum is represented by two narrow, 

 wedge-shaped sclerites with eight to ten round punctures. The teeth of the propodeon 

 occur on the edge between the notum and pleura ; the first before the curved stigma 

 is short and rather blunt, the two posterior being longer. The longest pubescence 

 occurs between the hindmost spine and the petiole ; there is a scattered pubescence 



