572 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Nov., 



joint which is much longer than thick, antenna? blackish throughout, 

 mandibles typical, robust, extending to the outer edge of the labrum, 

 black except for the apical half which is dark reddish, palpi nearly 

 typical; thorax covered with an abundance of whitish hairs which 

 are shorter on the dorsulum where they are pale ochreous than the 

 whitish hairs on the mesopleurse, dorsulum dullish, punctured, finely 

 reticulated except for the middle third of the posterior half which is 

 polished and punctured, the punctures of the reticulated area from 

 nearly adjoining to nearly four puncture widths apart, the punctures 

 of the polished area much sparser, notauli represented by an impressed 

 line, mesopleurse with whitish hairs throughout, finely reticulate and 

 sparsely punctured, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the 

 polished part of the dorsulum except for being more finely punctured,, 

 metanotum hairy and sculptured like the dullish portion of the 

 dorsulum except that the sculpture is denser, tegulee dark brownish 

 stramineous, polished, wing base partly blackish brown, subcosta 

 blackish brown, stigma dark brownish stramineous, rest of veins 

 dull stramineous, with a blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received 

 by the second submarginal cell beyond the middle and apparently 

 as near to the second transverse cubitus as the first transverse 

 cubitus is to the stigma on the radial vein, nervulus interstitial and 

 forming an acute angle with the first abscissa of the discoidal vein, 

 legs blackish brown except for the tarsi which are more or less dark 

 brownish stramineous, legs covered with whitish hairs, scopa typical, 

 its hairs of a whitish hue, and concolorous throughout except for 

 the hairs on the basal half of the upper edge where the hairs are 

 blackish brown, hind metatarsi at most apparently as wide as mid 

 metatarsi; propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, triangular r 

 finely reticulated, not at all rugose, rest of upper face of propodeum 

 sculptured somewhat like the mesopleurse but seemingly with smaller 

 pits and covered with whitish hair, propodeal pleurae distinctly 

 reticulated and with a few ill-defined punctures, and almost hidden 

 by the whitish floccus; abdomen with its tergum shiny, punctured 

 and delicately reticulated, the punctures fine and from two to eight 

 or more puncture widths apart on the first tergite except on its 

 depressed portion where the punctures are closer together, the 

 punctures on the elevated portion of the second, third and fourth 

 tergites similar to those on the first tergite and sparser than on the 

 depressed portions of the second, third and fourth tergites, where the 

 punctures are much as on the depressed portion of the first tergite, 

 second tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed 



