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upper metapleuron; sometimes a vague suffusion on apex of lower 
metapleuron; and broad posterio-lateral bar on propodeum from 
crista to hind margin; gaster red with some blackish staining, espe- 
cially on 5th and following tergites but sometimes also extensive on 
2nd and 3rd tergites, and with the following white: a broad and 
medially obsolete apical band on 1st tergite; a very broad and nearly 
complete apical band on 4th tergite; a narrower, laterally widened 
apical band on 5th tergite; and with still narrower, dorsad broadly 
interrupted apical bands on following tergites; fore and mid coxae 
white with extensive black marks; fore and mid trochanters white 
below and reddish brown above; legs otherwise red with dusky on 
tarsi, especially on hind tarsus, and with white on 3rd and (some- 
times) also on more than basal 0.5 of 4th hind tarsomeres; wings 
hyaline with faint dusky staining apicad on fore Wing. 
Length of fore wing: 4. 6-5. 8 mm. First flagellomere: 5. 8-6.0 as 
long as deep at apex. Malar space: 0.84-0.85 as long as basal width 
of mandible. Temple: gently rounded and very strongly receding; 
0.37-0.40 as long as eye in dorsal view. Mesoscutum: notauli very 
faint, detectable 0. 5-0.6 the length of mesoscutum; surface uni- 
formly with strong rugose wrinkling that sometimes grades into 
dense puncto-reticulation laterad. Mesopleuron: speculum swollen, 
mostly smooth and polished, and with a few (sometimes very few) 
strong and short wrinkles radiating from its periphery; surface oth- 
erwise uniformly strongly but rather finely and granularly reticu- 
lately wrinkled. Propodeum: spiracle 1.4- 1.8 as long as wide; basal 
trans-carina fine but well developed throughout and sometimes 
rather strongly raised; apical trans-carina weakly and irregularly 
traceable throughout; cristae strongly projecting, symmetric, short- 
ligulate or subligulate; longitudinal carinae obsolete; median apical 
area sometimes irregularly delimited. First gastric tergite: postpeti- 
ole 1.8- 1.9 as wide apically as long from spiracle to apex; surface of 
postpetiole silky-shining with at least a little and sometimes with 
conspicuous micro-reticulation and with abundant very large and 
coarse punctures that are irregularly distributed but extensively 
subadjacent on median field and which become even denser laterad; 
setae rather long, in part equalling the length of their interspaces; 
base of petiole with a low and subtriangular lateral flange. Second 
gastric tergite: a little dully shining and minutely aciculate, with 
abundant, uniformly distributed, medium sized, mostly almost sub- 
