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Thorax dull, all but the postscutellum and nietanotum covered with 

 dense pubescence, that on the dorsum bright ochreous, on the pleura pale 

 ochreous, almost whitish, dorsulum covered wiili shallow almost adjoining 

 punctures; pleura finely sculptured or roughened; postscutellum rugulose; 

 enclosure of metanotum finely granular excepting in the posterior lateral 

 corners, where some rather coarse rug* and impressions are visible; a fine 

 median raised line bisects the enclosure ; wings in structure and colour 

 typical, /. t'., nearly exactly as in Edwardsii ; legs wiiii various shades of 

 brownish pubescence, the anterior and middle legs with their tibia3 covered 

 wiih a seal-brown pubescence, the femora with whitish pubescence, the 

 tarsi externally with a pale brown pubescence, internally with a reddish- 

 brown pubescence, posterior legs with whitish pubescence on the femora 

 except at tip, where there is, as it were, an epaulet of dark brown pubes- 

 cence to cover the joint, tibine and outer face of metatarsus with pale 

 ochreous pubescence margined with reddish coarser liairs, the apical edge 

 of the metatarsus provided with a broad thick brush of hairs, the brush 

 reddish brown at base, fuscous on apical half. 



Abdomen with very conspicuous whitish fascia, occupying from 

 somewhat more than one-half the segment to nearly two-thirds on seg- 

 ments 2-3-4, the fascise occupying the apical portion of the segment, the 

 basal portion being occupied hy short black pubescence fringed with sparse 

 long hairs ; the penultimate segment has the pale fascia represented by a 

 short bar on each side, the space between being covered with black 

 pubescence ; ventral segments fringed with pale, almost erect, pubescence, 

 which is broadly interrupted in the middle by dark pubescence ; the 

 second ventral segment with a basal bilobed area that is transversely finely 

 striate, and occupies somewhat more than one-third of the segment ; the 

 lobes cf this area almost form semicircles. 



Tegument black, tarsi more of a brownish hue, claws pale brown on 

 basal half, dark brown on apical half, greater portion of apical half of the 

 external aspect of the mandibles almost straw colour. 



o .-^-Tegument much as in the 9 ; clypeus with shallow, nearly 

 adjoining, not sharply defined punctures; first joint of the flagellum 

 nearly as long as the second i)lus one-half the third ; covered with a 

 cinereous pubescence which is tinged with ochreous on the dorsum of the 

 thorax, the third, fourth and fifth abdominal segments with whitish pubes- 

 cence on the apical half forming bands, the bands not occupying all of 

 the apical half of the segment, the penultimate segment with a broader 



