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blackish olive, pronotum pale orange, edged with black, ornamented 
posteriorly with two irregular black spots, and a longitudinal black bar 
reaching from the anterior edge to the middle. Abdomen orange, the 
mesenteron shining through as a deep yellow spot. A black line 
I the ovipositor) shines through the transparent integument in the 
median dorsal line, from the middle to the terminal abdominal seg¬ 
ment, which is truncated; front of thorax with four hair-like pro¬ 
cesses, the anterior pair being much closer together than the pos¬ 
terior pair, which are evidently projecting spiracles. The tips of the 
hrst pair of legs lie anterior to the mesotlioracic leg tips, and these 
again lie anterior to the meta-thoracic leg tips by about two tarsal 
Imago Female Length, 3,75-4 mm. Head small; eves black, reni- 
form subcontiguous ; vertex and cheeks fuscous, sparsely hairv, rice and 
mouth parts pale yellowish, antennae 1 y 2 times as long as the head and 
thorax, pale yellowish, covered with scattered brownish hairs, 16- 
ienf u ^ • J ° mtS SeSSil£ ’ th£ baSal bein S broad and short, the 
darke t P ^ nC i. ’ ^ ° therS ° Vab Th ° rax brow " above, flowing 
lonri , i° W ?i " antCri ° r a, ’ d Iat£ral naar g ins ' with a dark median 
few dmk h r T eXte ” ding t0 thC P° Sterior pronotum with a 
: c ;u::; vn ;r s: p,eurae pa,e = -utci,,,,,, more 
Inv concoTo a u S 'i rOUUded P° steriori y. deeply emarginate later. 
2k brown-T ^ the u Pr0n0tUm> itS ,atera ' a, 'd posterior margin 
hairs coxle d T rf witb straight dark brown 
in^ThTas it" tban remaiader legs; femora equalling the tibiae 
m length, basal tarsal joint short, second ioir.fi ‘ 
three ioinie- „ • LO J° lnt longerthantheremaimng 
s tcs c *~ iM --— 
obsolescent towards its tip which ends ^mo r .'’ e,n 
third vein obsolescent before its bif„rcJ on , e T* ^ ^ 
halteres pale yellowish, covered with the s u ” d ' ffiCU,t tD “ 
abdomen much swollen before ovi vos iti„ T 1°"'" hairs as the le = S; 
enclosed e«-cr S nnrl a- * n ’ orange red from the 
e &&sa nci corpus adiposum ; the terrr 11T11 . ' 
ovipositor long and attenuated; whole a briosegment!brown; 
7* ^ n abdomen sparsely hairy. 
Points:’ .4n n fenna;asfrnr a s D th fferS hd 0m the the following 
second joint spheroidal, joints 3-15 ’! ’ b&Sal ioint subcalycnlate, 
joints in the female, the basal half " T aS long as the corresponding 
half only one third as broad as theT ’ S . W ° ]len and oval, the apical 
widening a little towards the apex • ten? i ^ Cy1indrical ^dually 
I * 1 terminal joint oval; hairs on wings 
