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upper edge of the eye with whitish hairs, face brownish, shiny, finely reticulate, 
with indistinctly defined punctures that are mostly from two to four puncture 
widths apart, clypeus virtually not at all elevated above the apical margin, 
nearly planate, brownish and blackish, sculptured like the face except that the 
punctures are larger and well defined, clypearea present but poorly defined 
and finely reticulated, clypeus thinly hairy, its sculpture not at all hidden by 
hairs, labrarea with its anterior margin convex, its width at base : length dow'n 
the middle :: 10: 3, labrarea at base : distance between lower corners of clypeus 
:: 10: 17, labrum w ith a fringe of golden hairs and without a median longitudi- 
nal crista between its apical edge and the labrarea, joint 3 of antennae : 4+5 
:: 7: 6, joints 4 to 9 inclusive thicker than long, the succeeding joints a little 
longer than thick except joint 12 which is distinctly longer than thick, anten- 
nae brownish except for the blackish scape, mandibles typical, robust, not over- 
lapping, reddish except for the basal fourth which is blackish, palpi nearly 
typical; thorax thinly covered with whitish hairs which are shorter on the 
dorsuhmr than the whitish hairs on the mesopleura, dorsulum dullish, finely 
reticulated and punctured like the face but more distinctly and densely so, 
notauli represented by a shallow' impression, mesopleura sculptured somewhat 
like the face but more shiny and not so distinctly punctured, scutel hairy and 
sculptured much like the dorsulum except that the sculpture is not so dense and 
the surface more shiny, partly almost polished, metanotum hairy and sculptured 
much like the dorsulum except that the sculpture is denser and indistinct, 
tegulae brownish stramineous, nearly polished, w'ing base dull stramineous, 
subcosta dark brownish stramineous, stigma pale yellowish stramineous, with 
its lower margin brownish, rest of veins dull stramineous, mostly somewhat 
paler than the stigma, w'ithout a blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by 
the second submarginal cell 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 uniformlj^ w'ith a dark tinge, nearly colorless, 
legs dark brow'n except for the tarsi and hind tibiae which are more or less pale 
brownish stramineous, legs covered with whitish and pale golden hairs, scopa 
nearly typical, its hairs whitish throughout, hind metatarsi at most apparently 
as w'ide as the middle metatarsi; propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, 
duUish and finely reticulated except for a nearly' radiate network of fine carinae 
along the basal margin, rest of upper face of propodeum sculptured somewhat 
like the metanotum and covered with fine whitish hair, propodeal pleura very 
shiny, delicately reticulated and with a few', very small scattered, shallow 
punctures and more or less hidden by the whitish floccus; abdomen with its 
tergum shiny, finely reticulated and indistinctly punctured, the punctures from 
two to four or more puncture widths apart on the first tergite, the punctures 
not so close on the succeeding tergites, second, third, and fourth tergites w ith 
an apical, whitish hair band that is interrupted in the middle of the second, 
apical edge of first, second, third, and fourth tergites with a stramineous 
border, second tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed 
portion :: 11: 8, fifth tergite shiny, reticulate, its punctures more evident than 
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