THE CANADIAN KNTOMOLOUIST. 2*79 



$ 9 mm. Head rather dullish; cheeks, vertex^ occiput and front 

 almost uniformly closely ruguloscly punctured, the cheeks less coarsely so 

 than the vertex and front, a distinct keel from a point on a line witli the 

 anterior edge of the antennal fosste to the middle of the front, from there 

 on continued close to the anterior oceUus as a raised Hne; supraclypeal 

 space and clypeus minutely tessellale, the former with a few indistinct 

 punctures, the latter with sparse, rather distinct punctures; labrum closely 

 rugulose, with two rather distinct, well-separated longitudinal raised lines 

 in the middle of the anterior half; malar space completely obliterated; 

 scape as long as the pedicelium and first two joints of the flagellum com- 

 bined, first joint of the flagellum about two-thirds the length of the second; 

 middle third of the face transversely covered more or less with whitish 

 appressed pubescence; upper part of front, vertex and occiput with brownish, 

 more or less erect pubescence, cheeks with inconspicuous appressed 

 whitish and brownish pubescence. 



Thorax dullish, almost uniformly closely rugulosely punctured like 

 the cheeks ; dorsulum with inconspicuous appressed brownish pubescence, 

 with a short longitudinal stripe of yellowish pubescence on each side of 

 the middle, the edge of the tegulge and the posterior edge of the dorsulum 

 with a narrow border of yellowish pubescence; prothorax with inconspicu- 

 ous pubescence except the pronotum, which is covered with yellowish 

 appressed pubescence ; scutellum with inconspicuous appressed brownish 

 pubescence, the posterior margin with yellowish appressed pubescence; 

 postscutellum with appressed yellowish pubescence ; metanotum rather 

 flat, the funnel shape area smooth and bare, rather shining and impunc- 

 tate, remainder of the metathorax with brownish appressed pubescence 

 except along the edge of liie area, where there is some pale appressed 

 pubescence; mesopleura to a great extent, and sternum, covered with 

 appressed brownish pubescence, the mesopleura with a rather broad band 

 of yellowish appressed pubescence on the anterior edge of the upper half 

 of the sclen'te; extending off from this band obliquely downward and 

 backward is a short band nearly as wide as the band from which it springs; 

 wings typical. 



Abdomen dorsally nearly as in pectoralis, greater part of disc of 

 pygidium covered with stiff" brownish hairs ; venter of abdomen minutely 

 closely punctured with rather distinct brown appressed pubescence, almost 

 entirely black, or very dark brown, basal joint of flagellum somewhat 

 brownish, the second joint brownish at base. 



