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The sterna of this distinct species are nearly as in alamedana, except that the metasternal projection is much shorter and more broadly though evidently angulate; the tarsi are rather slender, with the first four joints of the posterior equal.

In the peculiar form and sculpture of the abdomen this species resembles properans, but otherwise it is quite different.



These small slender species are held to form merely a group of Microdota. Our representatives are rather numerous and well differentiated, but are evidently congeners of Hilara palliola Er., though in nearly every case having the prothorax more developed.