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coarse, mostly separated, shallow punctures, intermixed with fine 

 punctures anteriorly; metapleura glabrous, impunctate, except the 

 ventral third with large, coarse punctures; sides of propodeum 

 glabrous, impunctate at the anterior margin ; coarse, separated punc- 

 tures medially, coarse confluent punckires at the posterior margin; 

 posterior face and dorsum of propodeum deeply and irregularly 

 f oveolate ; tegulae glabrous, impunctate on the disk, closely punctate 

 on the basal, lateral, and posterior declivities; the punctate areas 

 bearing long, coarse, black hairs. 



Abdomen black, the apical tAvo-thirds of tergite two ferruginous ; 

 first tergite very coarsely, confluently punctate throughout, the punc- 

 tures coarser and more scattered on the disk, strongly constricted 

 subapically, clothed with very long, erect black pubescence; second 

 tergite with large, separated punctures throughout, clothed with 

 long, erect, black pubescence, except the ferruginous area with large 

 lateral spots of yellowish pubescence; apical margin of tergite two 

 with a thick apical fringe of black hairs; tergites 3-6 with large, 

 deep, contiguous punctures, clothed with long, erect, black pubescence 

 and with apical fringes of black pubescence; ultimate tergite punc- 

 tate and pubescent on the basal margin, the pygidial area glabrous, 

 inconspicuously longitudinally rugose; first sternite with a conspicu- 

 ous, median, longitudinal carina, very coarsely, confluently punctate, 

 sparsely clothed with long, black pubescence; second sternite with 

 very distinct, large, elongate punctures throughout, the punctures 

 close and confluent basally; a median narrow, elongate pit on the 

 basal half of the second sternite, densely packed with hairs, the pos- 

 terior tip of the pit not extending onto the posterior half of the 

 sternite; second sternite sparsely clothed with long, erect, black 

 pubescence and a thin apical fringe of black pubescence; sternites 

 3-6 with scattered punctures at the apical margin, clothed with sparse, 

 long, erect, black pubescence, and each with an apical fringe of 

 black pubescence; ultimate tergite with scattered punctures and 

 sparse, long, black pubescence. 



Legs black, clothed with black pubescence. 



Wings dark fuliginous; cell 2nd K^ + R, broadly truncate at the 

 apex; cell E.^ almost obsolete; vein M^+j received by cell Rg at one- 

 third the distance from the base to the apex; veins r-m and Rj 

 widely separated on vein r. 



Holofype.—MoXQ, Cat. No. 40738, U.S.N.M., Victoria, Texas, June 

 3, 1910 (J. D. Mitchell). 



This species is related to permisfa and rubricosa but is easily dis- 

 tinguished by having the posterior declivity of the tegulae punctured 

 and by the occipital and pronotal characters mentioned above. The 

 pit on the second sternite is more basal in position than in either of 



