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anteriorly; anteiinal sockets situated a little farther apart than their 

 own length, their inner rims nearly parallel or only slightly convergent 

 above; scrobes somewhat longer than in vinidus and more deeply 

 impressed, reaching to a line drawn between the lower corners of 

 the eyes. Antennae about as long as in vinulus; scape as long as 

 the eyes, moderately curved a little below the middle, somewhat 

 thicker distad, and furrowed beneath the apex as usual; pedicel as 

 long as the first two funicle joints; funicle joints about equal in 

 length, except that the third is a trifle longer, increasing a little in 

 width distad, the first three about as long as xnde, the last three vdder 

 than long, the sixth being about a third wider again than the first; 

 club solid, obliquely truncate to about the basal third, and slightly 

 longer than the last four funicle joints combined. Mandibles with 

 the teeth comparatively long, the lower two acute and the upper one 

 rather blunt. Thorax unusually convex, the axillae well elevated 

 above the scutellum, the latter very high and convex, being rounded 

 from the median line of base toward the sides and apex and abruptly 

 declivous at the margins and without the median impressed line at the 

 base. Wings moderatel}^ wide, their basal third bare, the speculum 

 distinct for a short distance and forming a slight angle with the sub- 

 marginal vein or a right angle with the stigmal vein; the latter a 

 little more ciu-ved at the base than in 'punctictjys, forming an acute 

 angle vvith the postmarginal and joining the marginal at the costal 

 margin; postmarginal vein about a third as long as the stigmal but 

 spurlike. Abdomen about a third longer again than wide, about 

 three-fourths as long as the thorax, broadly oval in shape, both the 

 base and apex being well rounded; the tactile plates situated some- 

 what less than halfway from the middle to the apex, the vibrissae 

 reaching about to the apex; the ovipositor not protruded. Sculpture 

 very similar to vinulus, with the pin-punctures on the head more 

 distmct but not prominent, the reticulations of mesoscutum uniform 

 and those on the first tergite of abdom.en a little coarser and very 

 delicately iinpressed. Face and mesoscutum with a fine, whitish 

 pubescence neither very thick nor prominent, the axillae and scu- 

 tellum with a more scattered, similar pubescence, the metapleura 

 and hind coxae with the usual appressed hairs. Length of body, (2 

 to) 2.28; length of head, 0.73; width of head, 0.76; v/idth of vertex, 

 0.223; length of eye, 0.53; width of eye, 0.33; length of antenna, 

 1.33; v/idth of mesoscutum, 0.71; length of forewing, 2.10; v/idth 

 of forewing, 0.79 mm. 



Frontovertex and mesonotum intermediate between xanthine 

 orange and Mars yellow (R.), the face, cheeks, postorbital region, 

 occiput, and underparts of thorax ochraceous orange (R.); the 

 collar of pronotum. nearh^ transparent or probably whitish in life, 

 the inner half of the axillae more or less blackish, the median part of 



