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tween and below antennal sockets and a pair of submedian blotches 
above clypeus that are narrowly confluent mesad and which con- 
nect laterally with a large black area in anterior 1/4 of malar space; 
very broad orbital ring interrupted only in malar space and ventro- 
posteriorly much expanded and almost reaching hypostomal Ca- 
rina; blotch on apical 1/2 of propleuron; very broad anterior mar- 
gin of pronotum; very broad humeral margin of pronotum; pair 
of longitudinal blotches on about median 3/4 of mesoscutum in 
position of notauli; scutellum; most of postscutellum; tegula; axil- 
lary sclerites; subalarum; large anterio-median blotch on mesepi- 
sternum just behind prepectal carina; broad stripe in anterior 2/3 
of sternaulus; large blotch in lower hind corner of mesepisternum; 
mesepimeron pure white on dorsal 1 /4 and more brownish ventrad; 
most of dorsal metapleuron; large, dorso-posterior blotch on apical 
1/2 of lower metapleuron; and a pair of very broad blotches occu- 
pying all but median 1/3 of hind face of propodeum from cristae 
to apical margin; first gastric tergite red with a broad white band 
covering apical 1/2 of postpetiole; second tergite black with red- 
dish staining baso-laterally and a broad white subapical band; and 
following tergites black with broad white apical bands; fore and 
mid legs ferruginous with tarsus duller and fifth tarsomere dusky, 
trochanter white with brownish above, and coxa white with a small 
reddish spot above near apex and more broadly marked with dark 
red to blackish below; hind leg with coxa red except for a small 
white blotch above at base, trochanter and trochantellus red, femur 
more ferruginous, tibia dull ferruginous with a slight dusky tinge 
on base and blackish on about apical 1/10, first tarsomere brown- 
ish black with white briefly throughout on apex and whitish below 
on apical 1/2, second tarsomere white, third white with a dusky 
area above subapically, fourth black with a little whitish on base 
and fifth black; wings hyaline. 
Structurally, mesorufus much resembles the Floridian T. weemsi 
(Porter, 1974, p. 331-335), from which it may be distinguished by 
most of the characters listed below; 
Length of fore wing: 6. 1 mm. Pronotum: dorsal margin moder- 
ately swollen. Mesoscutum: notauli very weak but traceable about 
2/3 the length of mesoscutum. Mesopleuron: speculum swollen, 
smooth and shining with only a few large punctures peripherally; 
surface otherwise almost uniformly with strong, reticulate wrink- 
