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men also red; light markings dorsally pale creamy, ventrally white; 
head broad; clypeus minutely granular; antenns red strongly suf- 
fused with blackish, apex of scape and base of flagellum brighter 
red; third joint shorter than fourth; front and vertex more or less 
striate; mesothorax very densely and minutely punctured, with two 
parallel bands of pale ochreous hair, a spot of hair at each posterior 
corner, and a band in scutello-mesothoracic suture; pleura with a 
large bare densely punctured patch; scutellum rather strongly 
bilobed; axillar teeth very short; wings somewhat dusky, brownish; 
abdomen with broad, continuous light ochreous bands on segments 
1 to 4, that on first notched in middle anteriorly; black area on 
first segment a broad transverse band; light band on second seg- 
ment with a large oblique lobe (directed mesad) laterally, giving 
the outline of a scythe; modified apical patch rounded; last ventral 
segment curved downward at end. 
S Clypeus all black; scape black; flagellum dusky reddish, with- 
out any bright red; face with dense white hair; tubercles black; 
pleura with a bare patch just below wings, but the lower bare patch 
small and indistinct; femora black, with red knees; hind margins 
of second and following abdominal segments brownish; apical plate 
extremely narrow. 
