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front polished and punctured, the punctures as many as three puncture widths 
apart but niostlj^ adjoining or one imncture width apart, front distinctly 
elevated along the inner ej^e margin, fovea at most : ocellocular line 10: 13, 
foveal band wanting, fovea virtually contiguous to the upper end of the inner 
eye margin, distance between fovea and ocelli : ocellocular hue 2: 13, fovea 
decidedly constricted near its middle where it is api)arcntly only one-third as 
wide as the greatest width of the fovea, the latter continued Ijelow the con- 
striction as a narrowing furrow down to a j)lane apparently a little below the 
cl}'peal line, foveal hairs very pale ochreous, fovarea widest a little above the 
middle of the fovea, angulated at its widest point where it is a little wider than 
the fovea is wide opposite the angulation of the fovarea, the latter polished and 
with a few poorly defined punctures, face polished and with large adjoining 
and nearly adjoining iiunctures, clypeus slightly elevated above the apical 
margin, convex, polished and inmctured, the punctures as many as eight 
puncture widths apart, clypearea virtually wanting, clypeus thinly hairy, 
labrarea truncate, width at base : length down the middle :: 14:4, width at 
apex : length down the middle :: 7: 4, labrarea at base : distance between lower 
angles of clypeus :: 14: 20, labrum with a fringe of golden hairs, joint 3 of an- 
tennae : 4-f5 :: 7: 10, joint 4 thicker than long, the succeeding joints from as 
long as thick to longer than thick, antennae blackish brown throughout, 
mandibles typical, robust, extending to the outer edge of the labrarea, black 
except for the apical third which is mostly dark reddish, palpi nearly t 3 'pical; 
thorax covered with an abundance of slender hairs which are slightty darker 
on the dorsulum where they are a little shorter than the paler hairs on the 
mesopleura, dorsulum partly polished, partly finely reticulated, coarsely punc- 
tured, the punctures ranging from nearly adjoining to two puncture widths 
apart, notauli represented by an impressed dullish line, mesopleura with very 
pale ochreous hairs except along the upper margin where the hairs are slight^ 
darker, coarsely punctato-reticulate, scutel hair\^ and sculptured much like the 
dorsulum, metanotum densely, indefinite^ sculptured, tegulae pale stramin- 
eous, polished, wing base reddish brown and with a blackish spot, subcosta 
blackish brown, stigma j^ellowish stramineous, with its lower margin reddish 
brown, rest of veins dull brovuiish stramineous, first recurrent vein received by 
the second submarginal cell beyond the middle and a little nearer to the second 
transverse cubitus than 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, legs blackish except for the tarsi which are more 
or less dark brown, covered with pale ochreous, golden and brownish hairs, 
scopa nearly tj^pical, its hairs of a pale golden hue, and concolorous throughout 
except for the hairs at base above which are darkened, hind metatarsi at most 
apparently narrower than the mid metatarsi: propodeum with its enclosure 
poorly defined except at apex where its truncation is bounded f)>" a trenchant 
Carina, the enclosure with at least sixteen nearlj" longitudinal carinae, the in- 
terstices of which are finely reticulated, rest of upper face of propodeum sculp- 
tured somewhat like the mesopleura and covered with ver\" pale ochreous hair, 
propodeal pleura finely reticulated, and sparseh' punctured with shallow 
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