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rest of upper face of propodeum sculptured somewhat like the 

 mesopleurae but with smaller pits, and covered with pale ochreous 

 hair, propodeal pleurae with sparse shallow excavations that are 

 finely reticulated and almost hidden by the pale ochreous propodeal 

 floccus; abdomen with its tergum polished, punctured, the puncture 

 clear cut but small, from two to many puncture widths apart 

 on the first tergite, from adjoining to one puncture width apart on 

 the elevated portion of the second, third and fourth tergites where 

 the punctures are larger than on the depressed portions and from 

 one to four puncture widths apart on the depressed portions of the 

 second, third and fourth tergites, second tergite with its elevated 

 portion down the middle : depressed portion :: 6 : 16, fifth tergite 

 shining reticulate, with its punctures from adjoining to four punc- 

 ture widths apart, pygidium, black, planate and rounded at apex, 

 tergum with inconspicuous pale hairs, second, third and fourth 

 tergites with a broadly interrupted golden ochreous hair band, 

 fimbria golden ochreous. 



AUotopotype.- — The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Length 7 mm.; body black, mostly covered with bright ochreous 

 hair; head covered with pale ochreous hairs throughout, with its 

 facial line : transfacial line :: 49 : 61, axial line : temporal line :: 

 26 : 10, temples rounded, subtrapezoidal, malar line : joint 3 of 

 antennae :: 1.5 : 6, elevated portion of malar space shorter than the 

 depressed portion, front dullish with adjoining, shallow pits that are 

 reticulate, laterally striate-pitted, and striate, ocellocular line : ocell- 

 occipital line :: 13 : 5, face dullish, indistinctly reticulate and with 

 large rather coarse nearly adjoining or adjoining punctures, clypeus 

 apparently not elevated directly above the apical margin, convex, 

 polished and punctured much like the face, clypearea present but 

 not well developed and confined to the anterior half, sculpture of 

 the clypeus nearly hidden by the moustache, labrarea truncate, width 

 at base : length down the middle :: 9 : 2.5, width at apex : length 

 down the middle :: 4 : 2.5, labrarea at base apparently a little more 

 than half as wide as the labrum, the latter with a fringe of pale 

 golden hairs, joint 3 of antennae : 4 :: 6 : 10, joint 4 and following 

 joints from a little more than twice as long as thick to nearly twice 

 as long as thick, dullish, fiagel somewhat undulate in outline, antennae 

 blackish throughout, mandibles atypical, robust, extending to the 

 outer edge of the labrum, black except for the apical half which is 

 clear dark reddish, palpi nearly typical; thor-ax covered with an 

 abundance of slender pale ochreous hairs, hairs of dorsulum seem- 



