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flagellum ; clypeus more or less broadly white ; white on orbits broadly 
interrupted at top of eye and often not or only slightly interrupted 
at bottom : band on front-orbit usually broader, particularly on face ; 
that on hind-orbit narrow but with a broader extension across malar 
space below, or sometimes interrupted on lower f/4. but with a de- 
tached mark in malar space; sometimes no white on collar; apex of 
propleuron sometimes more or less white; white spot on base of 
tegula; sometimes no white on subalarum; sometimes no white on 
scutellum or sometimes white spots at base of scutellum even larger 
than in female; ist gastric segment mostly black, or becoming more 
or less pale orange on postpetiole; tergites 2-4 or 5 or 6 pale orange; 
succeeding tergites blackish, often grading into pale orange laterad 
and often with dull, narrow whitish apical bands; fore-coxa dully 
and irregularly to very broadly and brightly white externo-ventrally ; 
fore-trochanter sometimes largely white below; mid-coxa sometimes 
with a ventral or externo-ventral white spot; mid-trochanter some- 
times partly white below; often more or less of hind-tarsomeres 2 
(apically) or 3-4 white or hind-tarsus sometimes with only a trace 
of pale staining. Length of fore-wing: 5. 7-7. 2 mm. ist flagello- 
mere: 3. 5-4. 2 times as long as deep apically. Malar Space: 0.9-1.0 
times as long as basal width of mandible. Temple: O.8-O.9 times as 
Map 1. Distribution of Trachysphyrus hoplites n. sp. (Ecuador). 
