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which on the upper side are two deep pits separated by a thick ridge ; 

 eyes convergent below, comprising nearly two-thirds total width of 

 head ; face sparsely punctate, very finely coriaceous, subopaque, with 

 a deep, narrow impression each side of middle ; malar space opaque, 

 much shorter than basal width of mandible, slightly concave ; mouth 

 as broad as narrowest width of face; occipital carina convergent 

 above with posterior margin of eye, prominent below and separated 

 by a deep, rather narrow furrow from hypostomal carina, latter high 

 apically; temples flat, very weakly oblique, barely a fourth as broad 

 as short diameter of eye; diameter of ocellus three-fourths ocell- 

 ocular line and about twice postocellar line ; first joint of flagellum 

 about eight times as long as thick at apex. Thorax polished, with a 

 few scattered punctures on pronotum and mesopleurum and the 

 metapleurum strongly obliquely rugose, this rugosity extending to 

 the sides of the propodeum behind the apophyses ; pronotum tumid 

 above with impressions opposite the notauli; anterior marginal 

 carina very high, epomia absent ; prescutum moderately high, lateral 

 lobes slightly flattened, notauli not confluent; scutellum moderately 

 high, compressed, lateral areas very deeply impressed, with a few 

 large foveolae at bottom of impression; mesopleural and prepectal 

 furrows foveolate, upper portion of prepectus and humeral angle of 

 mesopleurum rugulose, subalar tubercle very low, surrounded by a 

 strong carina; propodeum polished, basal middle concave, carina 

 high, bent forward medially, spiracles large, elongate; apophyses 

 short, stout, very slightly nearer to carina than to apex, space be- 

 tween carina and apophyses with a narrow median channel and a 

 few obscure posteriorly convergent rugae ; hind femur rather stout, 

 nearly twice as thick in middle as at extremities; inner calcarium 

 two-fifths as long as basitarsus; areolet rather short, recurrent and 

 nervulus antefurcal; postnervulus broken below middle, nervellus 

 broken very slightly below middle. Abdomen narrow, hairs sparse, 

 fine and short; postpetiole barely twice as broad as petiole; second 

 tergite a little shorter than first and about three times as long as 

 broad at base ; sheath shorter than hind tibia. 



Head black; clypeus except margins, mandibles and annulus be- 

 ginning at middle of fifth flagellar joint white; palpi stramineous; 

 thorax reddish testaceous laterally and ventrally, pronotum medially, 

 mesoscutum, scutellum, and postscutellum black, scutellar carinae 

 white; propodeum basad of carina and medially behind carina pice- 

 ous; legs stramineous to testaceous, the front and middle femora 

 darker behind, their tarsi blackish apically; hind trochanter and 

 femur blackish, tibia yellow, tarsus whitish; wings hyaline, faintly 

 yellowish, venation black, tegulae stramineous, whitish on inner edge 

 and piceous at apex; abdomen black dorsally, whitish laterally and 

 ventrally. 



