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Head as broad as the thorax; almost disciform, its longitudinal 

 diameter being very short; it hardly projects in front of the eyes; the 

 occiput is excavated above and allows the head to he closely applied 

 to the thorax; vertex with a sharp edge; lower posterior orbit a little 

 swollen; cheeks moderately broad. Face concave under the antennae, 

 the antennal foveae within arc but feebly marked, and the interval 

 between theni not raised; above the peristomium, the face is somewhat 

 swollen, and this portion of the face is separated from that above by 

 a weak, arched furrow, running transversely from cheek to cheek. 

 Oral opening large, nearly circular; palpi broad and flat. 



Front and vertex broad, even, nearly flat; about as broad as 

 each eye; a little narrowed anteriorly, not swollen above the lunule; 

 the space on each side, between front and lunule, very narrow ; profile 

 not projecting; ocelli near the edge of the vertex. Two pairs of ver- 

 tical bristles; no other cephalic bristles. Eyes, glabrous, oblong, the 

 vertical diameter being l34 — VA of the horizontal one. Revived on 

 wet sand, the eyes appeared green, with eleven transverse purple stri- 

 pes. Antennae appressed to the face, nearly contiguous at the base, 

 scapus small, third joint oblong, its length about double its breadth, 

 reaching about the middle of the face; arista microscopically pubescent. 



Thorax broader than long; the lateral transverse sutures are very 

 near the humeri, ending on each side in a feeble longitudinal furrow 

 (visible in oblique light only). Two post-humeral bristles; two supra- 

 alar, one near the scutellum, the other above the alar frenum; on the 

 pleurae, I perceive only one mesopleural bristle (this statement about 

 the bristles requires verification). Scutellum comparatively large, 

 almost semicircular, closely applied to the abdomen, so that the me- 

 tanotum is invisible; on the edge, two (or three?) bristles each side; 

 (the second pair is smaller than the first, and the third, if it may be 

 taken for one, almost disappears among the other pubescence). 



Abdomen short and broad, finely pubescent, but without bristles; 

 consisting apparently only of two segments; the first is transverse and 

 visible on the sides of the scutellum only; the second occupies the re- 

 mainder of the upper side of the abdomen and is nearly as long as 

 it is broad, convex, smooth; under it, the short basal segment of the 

 ovipositor, with its protruding second segment. In the specimen which 

 I take for the male, the second segment seems to be less large, and 

 a third, short segment is distinctly visible under it; (the abdomen of 

 this specimen is somewhat injured). 



Legs comparatively short; hind femora not incrassate; tibiae not 

 expanded, nor ciliate; no bristles, Tegulae of moderate size. Wings: 

 Costa and first vein distinctly hairy; the third is glabrous. Auxiliary 



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