322 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



with the disc coppery bronze. Mandibles testaceous with darker teeth. Palpi yellowish. 

 Antennae testaceous with the scape, pedicellus, and flagellum more or less infuscate dorsally. 

 Coxae, about the basal half of the fore and mid femora, and the whole of the hind femora except 

 their tips narrowly, concolorous with the thorax ; trochanters partly infuscate ; rest of legs 

 bright testaceous with only the pretarsi and claws brown. Tegulae brownish testaceous. 

 Wings hyaline ; venation testaceous with the parastigma, stigmal vein and stigma brownish. 

 Length 2-1 to 2-2 mm. 



Head about i-2 times as broad as the mesoscutum, in dorsal view 2-25 to 2-3 times as broad 

 as long ; temples short, one sixth to one fifth length of eyes, and rounded off ; ocelli in a 

 triangle whose base is about 2-25 times its height, POL about twice OOL. Head in front view 

 about 1 -3 times as broad as high. Eyes separated by 1-3 times their own length. Malar 

 space slightly more than one third the length of an eye. Breadth of oral fossa slightly more 

 than three times the malar space. Mandibles moderate-sized, slightly falcate, their teeth 

 decreasing slightly in size from the outside, though the innermost is not very short. Head with 

 very fine, only slightly raised, sculpture ; moderately shiny with the vertex a little duller. 

 Antenna with scape short, its length only about three quarters the length of an eye, only about 

 3-5 times as long as broad, not reaching the median ocellus ; combined length of pedicellus 

 and flagellum distinctly less than the breadth of the head ; pedicellus in profile about 1 -6 times 

 as long as broad ; funicle proximally hardly as stout as the pedicellus, becoming conspicuously 

 thicker distad, its first segment somewhat shorter than the pedicellus and quadrate, the second 

 segment very slightly transverse, the following segments distinctly so, the fifth about twice as 

 broad as long ; clava slightly less than twice as long as broad, about as long as the three pre- 

 ceding funicular segments together ; sensilla of flagellum moderately numerous. 



Thorax about i-6 times as long as broad. Mesoscutum about 1-5 times as broad as long, 

 not very shiny, with extremely fine engraved sculpture ; mid lobe with numerous hairs ; 

 notauli deep, nearly straight. Scutellum a little longer than the mesoscutum, distinctly longer 

 than broad, sculptured like the mesoscutum but rather more finely, with four to six pairs of 

 bristles, arranged in two longitudinal rows ; frenum marked off by a very fine, almost imper- 

 ceptible, line ; the scutello-axillar sutures converge only moderately so as to meet the meso- 

 scutum only slightly mesad of the hind ends of the notauli, the base of the scutellum being 

 slightly less than one quarter the breadth of the mesoscutum. Dorsellum hardly half as long 

 as the frenum, forming a strongly raised, slightly alutaceous, crest. Propodeum moderately 

 long, medially slightly less than one third as long as the scutellum, shiny and weakly alutaceous ; 

 median carina fine but complete ; plicae absent ; spiracles suboval, separated by about one 

 third their diameter from the hind margin of the metanotum ; callus slightly less shiny than 

 the rest of the propodeum, with extremely fine though slightly raised reticulation, with four to 

 five bristles. Metapleuron and mesepimeron with fine, only slightly raised sculpture ; 

 mesepimeron sharply marked off from the mesepisternum, hardly more than twice as 

 long as broad ; mesepisternum with similar sculpture, except a nearly smooth sub- 

 triangular area below the base of the wings ; mesosternum shiny, with very delicate 

 alutaceous sculpture, its mesolcus sharply impressed throughout ; postspiracular sclerite 

 slightly shiny, with distinctly raised, and not very fine, reticulation. Legs somewhat 

 short and moderately stout ; hind coxae about twice as long as broad, not very shiny, 

 with rather coarse, distinctly raised reticulation, their dorsal surface bare ; spur of mid tibia 

 about three quarters as long as the first tarsal segment. Fore wing about twice as long as 

 broad ; costal cell moderately broad (length : breadth about 9 : 1), its lower surface sparsely 

 hairy, its upper surface bare except for a row of several hairs extending over the distal third 

 of the cell ; basal cell bare except in the vicinity of the basal vein where there are two to three 

 rows of hairs ; speculum partly open below, on the upper surface of the wing not broad though 

 extending as a bare strip below the marginal vein nearly to the stigmal vein ; wing beyond the 

 speculum moderately thickly haired ; marginal vein about 1-7 times as long as the post- 

 marginal vein and 2 to 2-1 times as long as the stigmal vein ; the latter curved, with a moder- 

 ate-sized stigma which is longer than high and has a rather short uncus. 



