586 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [NOV., 



hairs except along the hind edge where the hair is black, not 

 reticulated but covered with adjoining punctures that are larger 

 than on the dorsulum, scutel with black hairs and sculptured much 

 like the dorsulum except for a border of pale hairs like on the meso- 

 pleurse, metanotum hairy and sculptured like the dorsulum except 

 that the sculpture is denser and nearly all the hairs are pale ochreous, 

 tegulae blackish brown, polished, bordered with black hairs except 

 on the anterior third where the hairs are mostly pale ochreous, wing 

 base mostly dark brownish stramineous, subcosta blackish, stigma 

 dark brown with a blackish tinge, rest of veins dull brownish stra- 

 mineous with a blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by the 

 second submarginal cell before the middle and at least half again as 

 near to the second transverse cubitus as the first transverse cubitus 

 is to the stigma on the radial vein, nervulus interstitial forming an 

 acute angle with the first abscissa of the discoidal vein, membrane 

 in median and submedian cells nearly colorless, rest of membrane 

 with a distinct brownish tinge, the broad apical margin darkest, 

 legs blackish excepting the tarsi and hind tibiae which are rather 

 dark blackish brown, legs covered with blackish and brownish hairs 

 except femora and coxae which have more or less pale hair, hind 

 metatarsi at most hardly wider than midmetatarsi and nearly half 

 as wide as hind tibiae at apex of the latter; propodeum with its enclos- 

 ure poorly defined, coarsely rugose on its superior aspect, as many as 

 21 longitudinal carinse present, truncate at apex, its posterior face 

 finely reticulate, rest of upper face sculptured somewhat like the 

 mesopleurse but with adjoining pits rather than punctures and 

 covered with long black hair, propodeal pleurae sculptured apparently 

 like the upper face, the sculpture nearly hidden by the uniformly 

 distributed black hairs; abdomen with its tergum polished, blackish, 

 with dark brownish depressed margins, distinctly punctured, the 

 punctures from nearly adjoining to four puncture widths apart on 

 the first tergite, second, third and fourth tergites punctured much 

 like the first, second tergite with its elevated portion down the 

 middle : depressed portion : : 38 : 9, fifth tergite with its basal black- 

 ish portion covered with well-defined punctures that are as many as 

 three puncture widths apart, rest of fifth tergite and exposed portion 

 of sixth and seventh tergites dark brown or blackish, anal process 

 broadly truncate at apex, shallowly emarginate, tergum with rather 

 conspicuous black nearly erect hairs that are not supplemented on 

 the sides of the second, third and fourth tergites by apical hair bands, 

 hair at apex of abdomen blackish brown. 



