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pubescence thinner and darker than that below ; top of the head 

 shining, also indistinctly sculptured ; cheeks roughened, with white 

 pubescence ; labrum with a median dimple ; first joint of flagellum equal 

 to the length of the second ; space between eyes and base of mandibles 

 very narrow ; dorsulum shining, with small, well-separated punctures ; 

 scutellum similar. Mesopleura closely punctured, shining ; disc of 

 metathorax divided in the middle by a sharp longitudinal ridge, the space 

 on each side divided into pits by less conspicuous ridges ; enclosure 

 funnel-shaped, the neck narrow, about twice as long as wide at base, the 

 surface polished, the neighbouring areas shining, indistinctly sculptured in 

 spots ; thorax above covered with a slightly yellowish pubescence; the 

 sides, the metathorax in back and the legs covered with white 

 pubescence ; wings yellowish hyaline, nervures light brown, the stigma 

 almost testaceous ; first recurrent nervure received a little beyond the 

 middle of second submarginal cell. First abdominal segment highly 

 polished, with very fine, widely-separated punctures, the pubescence very 

 thin and long, whitish, the rest of the segments closely, indistinctly 

 punctured, the pubescence whitish, short and lying on the surface, the 

 fasciae formed by the hairs not at all prominent ; apical segment with 

 whitish appressed pubescence. 



Black; tarsi and claws almost testaceous; flagellum very deep 

 brown, 



One o* specimen from College Park, Maryland, September, 1892. 

 (Received through Mr. Quaintance.) 



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