XXxii, '21] ENTOM CLOCK Al. \K\VS 



mandibles bidentate, yellowish with black tips ; face below antennae 

 punctured, dullish and distinctly clothed with silvery pubescence, tem- 

 ples finely reticulated, a reddish brown orbital line extending along 

 the eye-margin from over half-way down on the inner margin to nearly 

 all the way down along the outer margin of the eyes; antennae blackish 

 throughout, first joint of flagel four times as long as thick, second and 

 third joints each shorter than the first, subequal and at least three times 

 as long as thick, the succeeding joints also subequal in length, becoming 

 quadrate at the 28th joint, then thicker than long with the exception of 

 the terminal joint, which is a little more than twice as long as thick; 

 palpi blackish at base, then fuscous, lateral ocelli nearer to the eye- 

 margin than to each other. 



Thorax black and punctured, its pleurae especially pubescent like tin- 

 face, notauli distinct anteriorly, tegulae and wing bases yellowish ; wings 

 transparent with a brownish tinge, stigma and veins dark brownish ex- 

 cept toward the wing-base, where the veins become yellowish, transverse 

 cubitus a little longer than the cubital abscissa between the transversq 

 cubitus and the recurrent vein, the latter a little longer than the brown- 

 ish portion of the cubitus beyond the recurrent vein, second abscissa 

 of the discoidal vein a little longer than the third abscissa of the dis- 

 coidal vein, nervellus slightly angulated at the middle, from which, 

 point there extends toward the anterior edge of the hind wing a bulla, 

 representing the subdiscoidal vein; legs mostly reddish stramineous, fore 

 and mid coxae brownish stramineous beneath, blackish above, hind 

 coxae and proximal trochanters mostly blackish, fore and mid tarsi 

 stramineous to brownish stramineous except their onychii and their 

 appendages, which are fuscous, distal trochanters of hind legs blackish 

 in part, hind tibiae at base and apex and hind tarsi throughout fuscous ; 

 propodeum pubescent like the face, its carinae well developed, cxc<.-;it 

 the longitudinal carinae, which are poorly developed between the basal 

 and apical transverse carinae, basal area narrowly truncate posteriorly, 

 the areola with a central impunctate area, the petiole area apparently as 

 long as the areola, but wider, both the areola and the petiole area not 

 much longer than wide, the latter transversely striate. 



Abdomen mostly reddish and polished, petiole black except at base 

 and beneath where it is translucent brownish, post petiole black except 

 at apex, where it is translucent brownish, and beneath, where it is yel- 

 lowish, second dorsal segment mostly black, finely striate laterally, the 

 apical half mostly reddish, second ventral segment yellowish, third to 

 fifth dorsal segments inclusive reddish with a blackish border along the 

 lateral margin and with a blackish stnak down the back that is inter- 

 rupted on the apical hall" of the third segment, seventh and eighth dor- 

 sal segments mosllv blackish. 



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.///o/ v/v-l<>cali!\ San Diego, ( alifornia, April 2''. 1913, 



collector E. P. Van | )u/cc 



