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and one-half times as long as thick to nearly twice as long as thick, 

 dullish, flagel almost straight m outline, antennae blackish through- 

 out, mandibles nearly typical, rather slender, extending beyond the 

 outer edge of the labrun] and nearly to end of the basal third of its 

 fellow, black except for the apical fourth which is dull dark reddish, 

 palpi nearly typical; thorax covered with an abundance of dark, 

 dull, ochreous hairs, hairs of dorsulum seemingly shorter than hair 

 of mesopleurae, dorsulum dullish, finely reticulated and sparsely 

 punctured, the punctures indistinct and from two to five or more 

 puncture widths apart, mostly the latter, notauli represented by a 

 shining line, mesopleurae dullish with pale ochreous hairs throughout, 

 finely reticulated and mostly covered with shallow pits, that are 

 mostly three or more pit widths apart, scutel hairy and sculptured 

 much like the dorsulum, partly polished, partly sculptured like the 

 dorsulum, metanotum hairy and sculptured like the dorsulum except 

 that the sculpture is denser, tegulae dark brown, polished, wing base 

 mostly pale stramineous, subcosta blackish, stigma brownish 

 stramineous with a blackish tinge, rest of veins stramineous with a 

 blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal 

 cell beyond the middle and a little nearer to the second transver<e 

 cubitus than 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, legs blackish brown excepting the tarsi 

 and hind tibiae which are rather dark brown, legs covered with 

 ochreous hairs, hind metatarsi at most hardly wader than mid- 

 metatarsi and nearly half as wide as hind tibiae at apex of the latter; 

 propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, with irregular rugae 

 on basal half, finely reticulated on apical half, rounded off at apex, 

 rest of upper face sculptured somewhat like the mesopleurae but with 

 smaller pits and covered with dark ochreous hair, propodeal pleurae 

 sculptured apparently like the mesopleurae, the sculpture not hidden 

 by the uniformly distributed ochreous hairs; abdomen with it- 

 tergum shining, almost polished, finely reticulated and indistinctly 

 punctured, the punctures mostly three or four puncture widths apart, 

 first tergite, with erect pale ochreous hairs, second and third tergites 

 with appressed ochreous hairs, second tergite with its elevated portion 

 down the middle : depressed portion :: 20 : 6, third and fourth 

 tergites with brownish appressed hairs on the elevated portion, fifth 

 tergite with its basal blackish portion covered with poorly defined 

 punctures that are as many as four puncture widths apart, rest of 

 fifth tergite and exposed portion of sixth and seventh tergites with a 



