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flagellum clothed with long, sparse white hairs. Pronotum one- 
third as long as wide, very slightly and broadly emarginate 
medially behind; punctation like that of the head, forming 
about seven irregular transverse rows; mesonotum and scu- 
tellum sculptured like the pronotum; scapulae less clearly 
separated behind where they are separated by about one-fourth 
the width of the thorax; a very deep transverse impression 
between the median lobe of mesonotum and the scutellum ; 
the latter sharply upturned at the tip, and with a broad shallow 
shagreened impression basally at the sides, the centre of the 
impression with a tuft of white hairs. Propodeum with a large 
shield-shaped shagreened areola extending from base to apex 
and a lateral transversely reticulate areola on each side, the 
carinse very strong. Pleurae opaque, almost entirely without 
large punctures except on the densely hairy metapleurae; meso- 
pleura with a few oblique lines. Hind coxae granulate, densely 
hairy externally. Petiole with a median furrow above and an 
incomplete lateral one; second to fourth segments short, 
subequal, together distinctly shorter than the fifth, which is by 
far the longest segment, sixth and seventh of about equal length, 
each on the dorsum two-thirds as long as the fifth, the sixth 
with a small round, very distinct spiracle near the base, the 
seventh with a larger one toward tip; eighth barely extruded; 
gaster in profile lanceolate, one-third as high as long, highest at 
the base of the fifth segment. Wings hyaline, venation pale; 
rather densely hairy, but without noticeably marginal fringe; 
hind wing with three frenulum hooks. 
Type from Kartabo, British Guiana (I. W. Bailey, collected 
as described on a previous page of this journal (Psyche, vol. 
29, p. 153. 
Conoaxima affinis sp. nov. 
9. Length 3.7 mm. Very similar to C. aztecicida, but 
differing most distinctly as indicated in the table above. The 
thorax is also more coarsely punctate, especially the scutellum 
where about eight punctures form a longitudinal line. 
