. Fig. 54. Antenna of -H". brevicomis d", from the inside. X 80. as long as broad, short-pointed; arista short-haired. Thorax some- what dark aeneous green, varying from green to golden aeneous; very slightly pruinose, shining; scutellum haired with short, dark hairs. Pleura greenish or eeneous, grey pruinose; propleura with a few pale hairs and a black prothoracic bristle. Abdomen green or more or less aeneous, very slightly pruinose downwards; it is clothed with short, black hairs and has hindmarginal bristles, which are longer on the first segment. Venter greenish, grey pruinose,
. Fig. 54. Antenna of -H". brevicomis d", from the inside. X 80. as long as broad, short-pointed; arista short-haired. Thorax some- what dark aeneous green, varying from green to golden aeneous; very slightly pruinose, shining; scutellum haired with short, dark hairs. Pleura greenish or eeneous, grey pruinose; propleura with a few pale hairs and a black prothoracic bristle. Abdomen green or more or less aeneous, very slightly pruinose downwards; it is clothed with short, black hairs and has hindmarginal bristles, which are longer on the first segment. Venter greenish, grey pruinose, with brownish hairs, a little longer at the base. Hypopygium quite as in the pre- ceding species, the outer lamellae small, black, with somewhat short hairs at the margin. Legs yellow, coxae grey with yellow apex; tarsi with the apex of metatarsus and the following joints black; the hind tibiae often a little brownish at the apex, and hind metatarsi black for the greatest part, not rarely quite black. Hind metatarsi con- siderably shorter than the second joint. The legs have short, black hairs; posterior femora with one preapical bristle; front tibiae with a pair of bristles above but none below; middle tibiae with two rows
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