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upper face of propodeuin sculptured somewhat like the mesopleura but with 
more distinct punctures, and covered with finer hair, propodeal pleura with 
sparse shallow punctures and finely reticulated, propodeal floccus wdiitish; 
abdomen with its tergum shining and sculptured much like the metapleura 
except that the reticulation is finer and the punctures more distinct, the punc- 
tures mostly from four to six puncture w'idths apart on the first tergite, the 
punctures hardly closer on the succeeding tergites, second, third and fourth ter- 
gites with a thin apical, whitish hair band, apical edge of first, second, third 
and fourth tergites with a stramineous border, second tergite with its elevated 
portion down the middle : depressed portion 13:9, fifth tergite shiny, reticu- 
late, its punctures more apparent than on the other tergites, pygidium nearly 
pointed at apex, planate, wdth a median, nearly triangular embossed area, ter- 
gum with inconspicuous, pale, nearly erect hairs, in addition to the hair bands, 
fimbria pale browmish stramineous. 
Allotype. — ^No. 4071, The Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. New Hampshire. (C. F. Baker No. 1869.) 
Male. — Length 8 mm.; body black, mostly covered with whitish hair; 
head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 42 : 52, axial line : temporal line :: 
22: 12, temples rounded, nearly trapezoidal, malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 
2:6.5, elevated portion of malar space down its middle shorter than the de- 
pressed portion, head covered wdth whitish hairs except along the inner, outer 
and upper eye margin, and on most of the clypeus w'here the hairs are black, 
front distinctly striato-rugulose, shiny, ocellocular line : ocelloccipital line :: 
12 : 3, face shiny, distinctly punctured, its punctures from one to three puncture 
widths apart and partly nearly hidden by the hairs, clypeus nearly convex, 
barely elevated above the apical margin, more shiny and more distinctl}’^ punc- 
tured than the face, clypearea wanting, sculpture of the clypeus not hidden 
by the moustache, labrarea wdth a shallow rounded emargination, polished, its 
width at base : greatest length : : 7 : 4, width at apex : length down the middle 
:: 3.5:3, labrarea at base : distance between lower comers of the clypeus :; 
7: 12, labrum with a fringe of golden hairs, joint 3 of antennae : 4 :: 6.5 : 5, 
joint 4 and following joints from a little longer than thick to twice as long as 
thick, shiny, flagel undulate in outline, antennae blackish throughout, man- 
dibles atypical, rather robust, extending a little beyond the outer corners of the 
clypeus and nearly to the end of the basal third of their fellow', black e.xcept for the 
apical third w'hich is mostly dark reddish, palpi nearly typical; thorax covered 
with an abundance of dull pale ochreous or w'hitish hairs, hairs of dorsulmu 
seemingly shorter than hairs of mesopleura, dorsulum dullish, finely reticulated 
and sparsely indistinctly punctured, the punctures mostly from one to three 
puncture wddths apart, notauli represented by a shiny line, mesopleura dullish, 
with whitish and a few blackish hairs throughout, finely reticulated and covered 
w'ith shallow pits that are mostly tw'o or more pit widths apart, scutel hairy 
and sculptured like the dorsulum, metanotum hair}' and sculptured Uke the 
dorsulum, except that the sculpture is denser, tegulae pale stramineous 
with blackish stains, polished, w'ing base brow'nish and pale stramineous, 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
