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white area in its hind corner, and the 3rd tergite with a regular and 
only sublaterally interrupted or irregular and much fragmented 
white apical band; tergites 4-7 black with white apical bands that 
are narrowest dorsad and which become considerably broadened 
laterally; and tergite 8 black with dorsally interrupted apical white 
band; fore coxa varying from reddish white with much black stain- 
ing to black with reduced red suffusion and with a large ventro- 
lateral white blotch as well as a somewhat smaller dorso-lateral 
white area; mid coxa varying from red with a little dusky to black 
with some reddish staining and with a large latero-ventral white 
blotch as well as with smaller and more irregular latero-basal and 
apico-dorsal whitish areas; hind coxa red, with some black apicad 
or sometimes mostly black with a large dorso-lateral white blotch at 
base and with only a little reddish staining (particularly around the 
white blotch); fore and mid trochanters black with pale brown to 
whitish narrowly on apex and sometimes with a white spot ventrally 
on fore trochanter; fore and mid trochantelli shining brown, becom- 
ing dusky basad; hind trochanter black with some brown staining 
and narrowly whitish on apex; hind trochantellus mostly shining 
brown; femora and tibiae a little dully pale orange; hind femur also 
blackish on apex and hind tibia likewise with blackish both near 
base and apex; fore and mid tarsi brownish with considerable dusky 
staining beyond 1st segment; hind tarsus sometimes wholly black or 
sometimes with segments 3 and 4 white above on all but apex; wings 
subhyaline with moderately prominent dusky staining that is most 
evident on apical 0.2-0. 3 of fore wing. 
Length of fore wing: 8.4-9. 1 mm. Flagellum: moderately long and 
slender, becoming slightly stouter and a little flattened below on 
about apical 0.3; last flagellomere apically truncate; 1st flagellomere 
5. 6-6. 2 as long as deep at apex. Clypeus: in profile strongly high- 
convex to bluntly pyramidal, only a little asymmetric (basal face 
convex and approximately as long as the weakly concave apical 
face); apical margin practically truncate. Malar space: 0.73-0.80 as 
long as basal width of mandible. Temple: 0.39-0.44 as long as eye in 
dorsal view; strongly and directly receding. Fore tibia: stout and 
considerably inflated. Pronotum: with a more or less well defined 
and rather broad and shallow dorsal submarginal groove that 
becomes narrower and weaker behind. Mesoscutum: notauli weak 
and shallow, traceable 0.5 the length of mesoscutum; surface 
