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least below), and hind femur faintly (if at all) toward base, all metal- 
lic purple with sparse to extensive gold reflections; gaster metallic 
purple with blue reflections which become prominent beyond 2nd 
tergite; fore and mid femora orange toward apex or sometimes 
almost wholly orange above; hind femur mostly orange; tibiae 
orange; tarsi black with some brownish on 1st metatarsus; wings 
brownish with purple reflections. 
Length of fore wing: 6.4-7. 5 mm. First flagellomere: 2. 6-3.0 as 
long as deep at apex. Clypeus: slightly to gently convex in profile; 
apical margin broad and gently convex. Malar space: 0. 8-0.9 as 
long as basal width of mandible. Temple: 0. 8-0.9 as long as eye in 
dorsal view; rounded and gently receding; highly polished with 
abundant but mostly well separated small, sharp punctures which 
emit long and, at least dorsad, well overlapping setae. Mesoscutum: 
notauli sharp, traceable about 0.5 the length of mesoscutum; surface 
highly polished with numerous small to large punctures that are 
separated mostly by much more than their diameters (the smooth 
interspaces prominent). Mesopleuron: speculum swollen and pol- 
ished; surface otherwise polished and minutely punctate on much of 
upper anterior quadrant, on prepectus (sometimes much wrinkled), 
and on an extensive anterio-ventral area behind prepectal carina, as 
well as often smooth for some distance below speculum, but other- 
wise with strong, longitudinally biased wrinkling between speculum 
and anterior swelling as well as on much of its lower hind quadrant. 
Lower metapleuron: with coarse reticulate wrinkling. Wing vena- 
tion: areolet very large, intercubiti somewhat strongly convergent 
above, 2nd abscissa of radius 0.8- 1.0 as long as 1st intercutitus; 2nd 
recurrent inserted near middle of areolet; disco-cubitus gently 
angled, with or without a stump of a ramellus; nervellus broken near 
middle. Propodeum: basal face long, steeply sloping; apical face 
obliquely reclivous and 0.5-0. 6 as long as basal; basal trans-carina 
fine and sharp nearly throughout, a little weakened on lateral 0.4; 
apical trans-carina well defined, a little irregular to sharp through- 
out, narrowly looped far forward in middle, laterad forming moder- 
ately prominent and well projecting bluntly cuneate cristae; lateral 
longitudinal carinae obsolete; surface with strong reticulate wrin- 
kling, the smooth interspaces between the wrinkles rather extensive, 
and the wrinkling becoming more or less weakened basad of basal 
trans-carina. First gastric tergite: postpetiole 0.9- 1.4 as wide api- 
cally as long from spiracle to apex; dorsal carinae obsolete; surface 
