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the upper edge of the eye with some dark hairs, face mostly dullish, finelj’’, dis- 
tinctly reticulate, with rather ill-defined punctures that are as many as three 
puncture widths apart, clypcus distinctly elevated above the apical margin, 
slightly convex, sculptured like the face except that the punctures are better 
defined and not so close together, clypearea present but poorly defined, clypeus 
thinly hairy, its sculpture not at all hidden by hairs, labrarea subemarginate, 
its width at base : length down the middle :: 9: 2.5, width at apex : length down 
the middle :: 5.5: 2.5, greatest length : width at base :: 3:9, labrarea at base 
apparently a little more than half as wide as the labrum, the latter with a fringe 
of golden hairs, labrum without definite sculpture or structure between the 
labrarea and apical edge of labrum, joint 3 of antennae : 4-|-5 :: 8: 7, joints 4 
and 5 thicker than long, the succeeding joints as thick as long or a Ifttle longer 
than thick except joint 12 which is distinctly longer than thick, antennae black- 
ish throughout, mandibles typical, robust, extending nearl}^ to the outer edge 
of the labrarea, black except for the apical third which is mostly dark reddish, 
palpi nearly typical; thorax tliinly covered with w'hitish hairs w'hich are as 
long on the dorsulum as the almost wdiite hairs on the mesopleura, dorsulum 
dullish, finely reticulated, indistinctly punctured, the punctures sparser than 
on the ch^peus, notauli represented by a shiny line, mesopleura sculptured 
somewhat like the dorsulum but more closely punctured, the punctures crater- 
hke, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the dorsulum, metanotum hairy 
and sculptured like the dorsulum except that the sculpture is denser and less 
distinct, tegulae dark brown, polished, wing base partly blackish brow*n, sub- 
costa blackish brown, stigma pale browaush stramineous, rest of veins dull 
stramineous, with a blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by the second 
submarginal cell in or a little beyond the middle and nearly as near to the 
second transverse cubitus as the first transverse cubitus is to the stigma on the 
radial vein, nervulus interstitial and forming an acute angle with the first 
abscissa of the discoidal vein, membrane uniformly tinged with brown, legs 
blackish except for the tarsi which are more or less light brown, legs covered 
wdth whitish and golden browui hairs, scopa atypical, its hairs whitish and 
brownish, at most apparently shorter than the greatest width of hind tibiae, 
mostly nearly erect not hiding the tegument, hairs at base above decidedly 
darkened, hind metatarsi at most apparently a little wdder than middle metatarsi, 
more than half as w'ide as hind tibiae at apex; propodeum w'ith its enclosure 
poorly defined, dullish and finely reticulated, rest of upper face of propodeum 
sculptured somewdiat like the enclosure, apparently more finely, and covered 
with whitish hair, propodeal pleura w'ith a few sparse, shallow, crater-like punc- 
tures, finely reticulated, shiny, and ahnost hidden by the almost white floccus; 
abdomen wdth its tergum shiny, finely reticulated and almost impuiictate, 
the indistinct punctures from two to six or more pimcture widths apart on the 
first tergite, the punctures apparently sparser on the succeeding tergites, second, 
third and fourth tergites with an apical, whitish hair band that is interrupted in 
the middle, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites with a stramin- 
eous border, second tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : de- 
pressed portion :: 15: 6, fifth tergite shiny, reticulate, its punctures distinct and 
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