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HRO TKRIA : SERIE ZOOLÓGICA 



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green spoL on the outside, dorsal ridge of hind coxae green. AH fe- 

 mora with a large longitudinal green or bluish area beneath ; tarsi 

 yellowish ; dorsal surface of hind tibiae with a series of 6-9 small 

 sharp spines. Wings hyaline, submarginal vein with a series of IO 

 long black hairs, stigmal club subsessile, elongate, truncate at tip 

 and nearly parallel with postmarginal ; alar sensória arranged in a 

 curved row on front margin of club, only two situated on the claw, 

 which is very short. 



Abdómen conic-ovate, longer than head and thorax together, 

 bronze green with bluish reftections, anterior ventral region and the 

 base of each segment above testaceous. A dorsal median longitu- 

 dinal carina extends from the third to the sixth segment. Second 

 segment with a smooth shining testaceous basal area behind which 

 it is green, irregularly reticulate ; third, fourth and fifth segments 

 each with a large dorsai basal testaceous area sculptured with very 

 coarse, regular, hexagonal, umbilicate punctures ; the remainder of 

 the segment green ; the posterior one-half or one-third ol each 

 segment depressed somewhat below the levei of the anterior part ; 

 from the anterior part there extends into the depressed area a 

 conspicuous series of longitudinal raised lines ; at the tip of each a 

 longr white hair is borne. Lateral áreas in front of this series of 

 raised lines finely and densely punotate, the áreas between and be- 

 hind these lines delicately but coarsely shingled. Seventh segment 

 with a few basal umbilicate punctures sometimes covered by the 

 segment in front; the rest of the segment finely and densely punc- 

 tate in front, shingled behind, eighth segment shingled. 



Male. — Length, 2.7 mm.; abdómen, 1.5 mm. Differs from the 

 female in having the whole prothorax, the thoracic pleurae, the co- 

 xae and the hind femora except the tip metallic green ; abdómen 

 metallic green except beneath in front, where it is somewhat tes- 

 taceous. 



Antennae shorter and a little stouter than in female. Sculpture 

 of abdómen similar to that in female. Stigmal shorter. 

 Described from 7 females and one male. 



Parasites of Asphondylia terrninaliae Tav. and of an unknown 

 fly (Agromyzina) which makes galls in the branches of the Flueg- 

 gea obovata (L.) Wall. Cfr. Tavares, 1. c, no. 30, Tabula x, fig. O. 



