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Female. — Head yellow except that the concealed part of the occiput 

 and a blotch contiguous to the mesal margin of each lateral ocellus 

 are black. Antennae yellow with a touch of fuscous suffusing the 

 dorsum of the pedicel. Mentum, stipes, and palpi more or less 

 fuscous. Thorax usually shining black with the margins of the 

 sclerites in proximity to the insertion of the fore wings edged with 

 yellow and the tegulae and median piece of metanotum yellow. 

 Abdomen shining black with the basal corners marked with sharply 

 defined, angular yellow spots. All coxae mostly, if not completely, 

 black. All trochanters more or less yellow. Fore and middle femora 

 black with yellow apices; hind femora entirely black. Fore tibiae 

 mostly if not entirely yellow ; middle and hind tibiae black, the latter 

 pale or yellow at apices. Tarsi yellow to whitish, apical joints dusky. 



Pedicel one and one-half times as long as wide and about one-half 

 as long as the first funicle joint. First funicle joint the longest, 

 a trifle more than twice as long as wide; second and third only 

 slightly longer than wide. Club short and wide, the three joints 

 united are not much longer that the first funicle joint; all club 

 joints plainly wider than long. Antennae similar to those of G, 

 modestus Silvestri and C. speciosus, new species (fig. 60). 



Mandibles almost edentate, the apical tooth small. 



Fore wings with a distinct infuscated area beneath the apical third 

 of the marginal vein; cilia of disk normal. Marginal vein slightly 

 longer than the submarginal; postmarginal shortly but distinctly 

 produced. 



Scutellum wider than long (20 : IT) and as long as the mesoscutum. 

 Ovipositor extending about two-thirds the length of abdomen, not 

 exserted. 



Frontovertex with numerous rather coarse black setae, those on 

 cheeks and upper part of face smaller and pale. Clypeus with 

 coarse, strong, black setae, larger than those of the frontovertex. 

 Mesoscutum with dense, coarse, black setae, those along the lateral 

 and posterior margins twice as large as the others. Each parapsis 

 with four setae. Each axilla with two or three setae. Scutellum, 

 except the apical one-fourth, about as densely setose as the mesoscu- 

 tum, the apex furnished with a very strong pair of setae and a 

 preapical pair about one-half as strong. The rows of setae incom- 

 plete across the second and third tergites. Fourth, fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh tergites each with black setae entirely across the dorsum. 

 Middle femur with a stout seta at apex. Middle tibia with five 

 stout black setae at base. Outer aspect of hind tibia furnished with 

 stout black setae, the paired spurs at apex large and of equal size. 



Mesoscutum, scutellum, axillae, median part of propodeum, and 

 blackened part of abdomen appear rather closely and heavily 

 reticulated in the balsam-mounted specimens studied. 



