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length of the third, more attenuate; head dark brown or black. 

 Mesonotum black, shining, with a few scattered setae laterally. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen dark brown, 

 somewhat reddish at the sides. Wings hyaline, costa black. Legs 

 black, tarsi with the first joint and basal four-fifths of the second 

 dark brown, the remainder white; the third and fourth segments 

 white, fifth slightly infuscated; claws stout, uniformly curved, 

 simple. Ovipositor short; there are on each side, two apparently 



Fig. 33 D i r h i z a h a m a t a; tip of abdomen showing ovipositor, enlarged 



(original) 



distinct plates, a dorsal and a ventral, both suboval, the dorsal pair 

 supporting the terminal lobes, which latter are strongly constricted at 

 the base, flattened, fusiform and thickly clothed with coarse setae. 



The specimen appears to have been somewhat mutilated and 

 has a pair of irregular, chitinous, hooklike processes (figure 34) 

 which are probably connected with the oviducts. Type Cecid. 142. 



Fig. 34 Dirhiza hamata; hooks and associated structures, enlarged 



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