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half which is mostly rcticulato-rugulose except for its lateral reticulated mar- 
gins, rest of ui)per face of propodeum sculptured like the mesopleurae and 
covered with longer and pale ochreous hair, propodeal pleura finely reticulated, 
shiny and with sparse shallow punctures from which extend some raised lines 
in all directions, i)ropodeal floccus pale ochreous; abdomen with its tergum 
shiny, finely reticidated and sparsely punctured, the punctures mostly from 
two to six puncture widths aj)art on the first tergite, the j^unctures sparser 
and smaller on the succeeding tergites, tergites without conspicuous apical 
hair band and appearing bare, ai)ical edge of first, second, third, and fourth 
tergites with a dark brownish stramineous border, second tergite with its 
elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion :: 26; 12, fifth tergite 
shiny, reticulate, its jnmetures lai’ger, less definite and not any closer together 
than on the other tergites, pygidium nearly planate, rounded at apex,. tergum 
with inconspicuous pale appressed hairs, fimbria brownish golden. 
Allotype. — No. 4072, The Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. Georgia. (H. K. Morrison.) 
Male. — Length 11 mm.; body black, mostly covered with pale ochreous 
hair; head with its facial line ; transfacial line 61: 79, axial line : temporal 
line :: 34:21, temples rounded nearly trapezoidal, malar line : joint 3 of an- 
tennae ;; 3; 11, elevated portion of malar space down the middle much shorter 
than the depressed portion, head covered with pale ochreous hairs, front shiny, 
reticulato-striate, divided by a median longitudinal carina that extends from 
the anterior ocellus to the supraclypeal area where it ends in a rudimentary 
spine, ocellocular line : ocelloccipital line :: 17:6, face dullish, indistinctly 
punctured, its punctures from one to three puncture widths apart, clypeus 
nearly planate, clypeus slightly concave, more shining and more distinctly 
punctured than the face, its jnmetures from adjoining to two j^uncture widths 
ajjart, not elevated directly above the ajjical margin, clypearea wanting, 
sculpture of the clypeus ahnost hidden by the moustache, labrarea with a 
slight broad, shallow emargination, jiolished, its width at base ; greatest 
length :: 14: 5.5, width at apex ; length down the middle :; 6:5, labrarea at 
base : distance between lower corners of clypeus :; 14: 22, labrum with a fringe 
of pale golden hairs, joint 3 of antennae : 4 :; 11:8, joint 4 and following joints 
from a little more than one and one-half times as long as thick to nearly twice 
as long as thick, dullish, flagel almost straight in outline, antennae l)lackish 
throughout and with stramineous sutures, mandibles nearly tyjjical, rather 
slender, extending beyond the lower corners of the clyjieus and nearly to end of 
the basal third of its fellow, black e.xcept for the apical fourth which is dull dark 
reddish, jialjji nearly tyj)ical; thorax covered with an abundance of pale dull 
ochreous hairs, hairs of dorsidum seemingly shorter than hair of mesoj^leura, 
dorsulum dullish, finely reticulated and sparsely jninctured, the punctures 
shallow and mostly from two to five jiuncture widths apart, notauli rej>resented 
by a shining line, mesoj)leura dullish with j)ale ochreous hairs throughout, 
finely reticulated and mostly covered with shallow adjoining pits, scutel with 
longer hair than the dorsulum, sculjRured somewhat like the dorsulum but 
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