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4'. Temple with setae long but rarely tangled; many species with 
setae on 2nd gastric tergite long and much overlapping; 
propodeum more strongly sloping in profile, with apical face 
less sharply discrete than described above; cristae often con- 
spicuous but not both narrow and greatly projecting; notauli 
0.5 or less length of mesoscutum; malar space 0.7- 1.0 as long 
as basal width of mandible; mesosoma purple or purple with 
a golden sheen 5 
5. Mesoscutal punctures mostly separated by considerably more 
than their diameters, often sparse; propodeal cristae often 
quite large, bluntly cuneate and prominently projecting; 
apical trans-carina of propodeum often well developed 
throughout and narrowly looped forward medially 6 
5'. Mesoscutum with punctures largely separated by little more 
than their diameters; propodeal cristae low to moderately 
projecting subligulate or subcuneate; apical trans-carina of 
propodeum largely or entirely absent 8 
6. Setae on 2nd gastric tergite short, much less than the length of 
their interspaces; temple 1.0 as long as eye in dorsal view. . . . 
3. T. agalma n. sp. 
6'. Setae of 2nd gastric tergite long and considerably overlapping; 
temple 0.8-0. 9 as long as eye in dorsal view 7 
7. Flagellum black with reddish brown on segments 11-16; thorax 
and propodeum golden with purple reflections; temple with 
very long and shaggy setae; areolet exceptionally large, inter- 
cubiti parallel, 2nd intercubitus 0.7 as long as 1st intercubitus 
5. T. aglaus Porter 
7'. Flagellum with white on some of intermediate segments; thorax 
and propodeum mainly purple; temple with long but not 
shaggy setae; areolet large but not as asymmetric as de- 
scribed above, intercubiti quite strongly convergent dorsad 
4. T. aegla n. sp. 
8. White flagellar annulus on segments 11 or 12-16, 17, or 18; hind 
tarsomeres 3-4 white; malar space 0.6-0. 8 as long as basal 
width of mandible; propodeal cristae low, weakly projecting, 
broadly subcuneate and extended a short distance anterio- 
mesad by a trace of the apical trans-carina 
2. T. carrascoi Porter 
