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sternite 5 mediaiily deeply cleft, and where not overlapped by the tergite, entirely 

 covered with short bristles. The ovipositor does not extend beyond the non-projecting 

 sheath ; the fixed base of the sheath is twice as long as the free portion ; the apical 

 one-twelfth of the ovipositor is serrate, the teeth being not opposite, but developed 

 from the sides alternately. Length, about 2| mm. ; alar expanse, over 4 J mm. 



(J. Prevailingly blackish, with unclouded wings. Head : eyes as in $, genae and 

 frons brilliant, very dark metallic blue, greenish between the scapes ; on the vertex 

 the latter tinge prevails. Antennae dark, with metallic green reflections, only the 

 ventral edge of the scape narrowly non-metallic pale brown. Thorax : pro- and 

 meso-nota (up to the suture) metallic blue green, with a bronzy tint on the mid lobe. 

 Axillae and scutellum darker, duller, with dim coppery reflections. Legs : fore 

 coxae metaUic blue-black, mid and hind coxae purplish black. All femora and hind 

 tibiae blackish. All trochanters, fore and mid tibiae (the latter obscurely) pale. 

 Tarsi pale, with last joints darker. Propodeon and abdomen dark blue to violet, 

 metallic blue reflections on former, the latter only faintly metallic or non-metallic. 



Head : eyes relatively further apart on the vertex than in the 5 ; the distance in 

 proportion to the diameter of the eye from in front is 5 : 3 ; at the lower angle the 

 proportion is 5:2. The scrobes are set higher up in this sex, nearly clear of the 

 base line of the eyes. The margins of the depressed triangle in which the scapes He, 

 and also the apical median keel, are not distinctly defined — ^the outlines being rather 

 rounded. There is a whitish pubescence above the scrobes. Mouth-parts as in the 

 $, but the last joint of the maxillary palpus relatively shorter. 



Antennae (fig. 4, i) eleven-jointed, differing from those of the ^ ^^ "that the club is 

 unsegmented and the first funicular is a ring joint (fig. 4, 2). Scape about three-and- 

 a-half times as long as broad ; rather wide near the base and expanded distally ; 

 considerably excavated for the pedicel (one-third). Pedicel narrow (7 : 4). Seven 

 normally developed funicular joints, besides the ring joint, all longer than broad. 

 The antenna expands so gradually that the club only slightly exceeds (8:7) the 

 tenth joint, and is not more than half as broad again (3 : 2) as the first normal 

 funicular joint (fourth). On the inside of the funicle and club are numerous sensoria, 

 about seventy on the club alone. Proportions of last eight antennal joints, 

 20 : 25 : 30 : 27 : 27 : 24 : 24, and club, 87. 



Thorax : pronotum hardly visible from above, largely concealed behind the swollen 

 occiput ; almost perpendicular, not horizontally porrect as in the $ ; distinctly 

 reticulate, with scattered hairs all over and an irregular posterior row of six bristles 

 on each protergite. Mesonotum with complete furrows meeting the suture at the 

 middle of the axillae. Basal scutellar abscissa narrow, barely half that of axilla. 

 Mid and lateral lobes with a regular raised reticulation and numerous short, evenly 

 distributed hairs. Middle of scutellum and inner sides of axillae with the same pattern 

 as the mid lobe, etc., but the outer sides of the axillae and scutellum have a striate 

 reticulate pattern. Axilla with eight to ten bristles. Scutellum with many more 

 hairs than the $ (twenty to twenty-four in all), besides the two clear median pustules 

 which may not be setigerous. Metanotum normal, all three parts reticulate, the 

 post-scutellum coarsely so ; mesophragma long and not reduced as in the $. 

 Mesopleurae with a distinct furrow\ A quadrate sclerite (? cpisternite) distinguish- 

 able below the wrings. Mesosternum posteriorly with an irregular median double, 



