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beyond the middle of the labrum, black except for the apical half 

 which is mostly dark reddish, palpi nearly typical; thorax covered 

 with an abundance of whitish hairs which are shorter on the dor- 

 sulum where they are pale ochreous than the whitish hair on the 

 mesopleurae, dorsulum dullish, punctured and finely reticulated 

 throughout, its punctures mostly from one to two puncture widths 

 apart, notauli represented by a shiny line, mesopleurse with whitish 

 hairs throughout, punctured and finely reticulated, the punctures 

 much sparser than on the dorsulum, scutel hairy and sculptured much 

 like the dorsulum except for being more distinctly punctured, meta- 

 notum hairy and sculptured like the dorsulum except that the 

 sculpture is denser, tegulae dark brownish, stramineous, polished, 

 wing base partly blackish brown, subcosta blackish brown, stigma 

 pale brownish stramineous, rest of veins dull stramineous, with a 

 blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal 

 cell beyond the middle and nearer to the second transverse cubitus 

 than the first transverse cubitus is to the stigma on the radial vein, 

 the second abscissa of the radius shorter than the first, nervulus 

 forming an acute angle with the second abscissa of the discoidal vein 

 and received by the first discoidal cell, legs blackish brown except 

 for the claws which are more or less brownish stramineous, legs 

 covered with whitish hairs, the hairs on the tarsi and fore tibiae dark,, 

 scopa typical, its hairs of a pale ochreous or whitish hue throughout, 

 with the hairs at base above slightly darkened, hind metatarsi at 

 most apparently as wide as mid metatarsi; propodeum with its 

 enclosure poorly defined, triangular, finely reticulated, not at all 

 rugose, rest of upper face of propodeum sculptured somewhat like 

 the mesopleurse but more closely punctured and covered with whitish 

 hair, propodeal pleurae delicately reticulated and punctured, the 

 punctures rather coarse and from two to eight or more puncture 

 widths apart, not hidden by the whitish floccus; abdomen with its 

 tergum shiny, punctured and delicately reticulated, first tergite with 

 its punctures finer and closer together than on the propodeal pleurae, 

 the punctures of the depressed portion closer together than on the 

 rest of the tergite, on the elevated portion of the second, third 

 and fourth tergites the sculpture is denser than on the elevated 

 portion of the first tergite, on the depressed portions of the second, 

 third and fourth tergites the sculpture is mostly hidden, second 

 tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed por- 

 tion :: 19 : 9, fifth tergite with its sculpture coarser, its punctures 

 not so well defined as on the preceding tergites, pygidium brownish 



