DESCRIPTION. 
—A minute black bronzed insect, 1.9 mm. long, with the 
n blotched with white at base. 
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bronzed greenish black, thickly coarsely punctured on all 
3sed surfaces, convex before without frontal grooves, concave 
.64 mm. wide by .68 mm. in vertical depth; eyes and ocelli 
1, the former oval in outline, the posterior margin more 
than the anterior, broadest above the middle, A7 mm. in 
diameter, .15 mm. in antero-posterior: ocelli in a triangle 
vertex, lateral ones a little nearer to the eye than to each 
mse inserted below the middle of the front, 1.4 mm. long, 
ed, counting the minute third and fourth joints and not 
g a minutely rudimentary apical one; four basal joints 
remainder black, joints from the fifth to. the tip densely 
with erect black hairs, each segment with a ring of a few 
pressed yellow hairs; the scape or first joint is about .8 mm. 
th, second joint one-third that length, third and fourth 
measuring together about .08 mm., visible only under 
power, the fifth measuring .11 mm. in length. The 
'rom the fifth to the tenth are slightly compressed, and 
y decrease in length; the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth 
ire more closely united, forming a cylindrical club with a 
tip, the thirteenth joint being conical. The first joint of 
) is about equal to the joint preceding. The minute apical 
is about .06 mm. in length. 
horax is .9 mm. in length, about half as wide in front as 
idest between bases of front wings, where it measures .68 
Color bronzed greenish black on all surfaces, densely 
punctured everywhere, like the head, and provided, as is 
d, with scattered minute yellowish hairs. Thoracic [sutures 
4y impressed. Prothorax with hind margin deeply concave, 
es with deep obliquely vertical grooves. Mesotliorax with 
transverse sutures in front of the scutellum; parapsidal 
extending half way to this transverse suture. Sides of 
>rax widely excavated obliquely forward and upward from 
8B. Scutellum somewhat vaulted, narrowed forwards, post¬ 
al narrow. Mesonotum declivous, convex from side to side, 
mtline nearly straight. 
5 coarsely hairy throughout; front wings 1.4 mm. long, .64 
de at widest part, hind wings .1 mm. in length; stigmal 
of fore wing nearly as long as costal vein, expanded at tip ; 
al vein vanishing insensibly towards tip of wing. Very 
•aces of median and submedian veins may be made out by 
animation. 
slender, posterior pair longest, ends of tibiae nearly attain- 
tip of the abdomen; spurs of middle tibiae stout, curved at 
rly as long as first joint of tarsi. Tarsi all similar, spinous 
", first joint longest, others shortening to the fourth, the fifth 
3 long as the second. Tibiae all white, tarsi white except 
