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punctured ; broadly projecting in the middle ; the pro- 

 jection depressed in the middle above ; the face is covered 

 with a short, sparse, white pubescence ; the clypeus is 

 roundly convex, smooth ; surrounding it on the top is a 

 black line ; its apex has a narrow, but distinct, border. 

 Mandibles and palpi pallid yellow ; the mandibular teeth 

 deep black ; the inner orbits are narrowly yellow to near 

 the front ocellus ; there is a narrow line on them 

 near the top of the eyes, and the outer orbits are 

 somewhat more broadly yellow on the lower half Thorax 

 black, o]3aque, the sides and apex of the scutellum, 

 the post-scutellum, the lower side of the propleura;, and 

 the tubercles, yellow. Mesonotum opaque, granular ; the 

 parapsidal furrows are distinct to near the apex ; the 

 scutellum is more shining and smoother. Median 

 segment closely, rugosely punctured, more finely and 

 closely at the base, where, next to the keel, it is obscurely 

 striated; in the centre are two oblique keels, forming an 

 enclosed area ; the central and apical parts are thickly 

 covered with short, white pubescence ; the lateral spines 

 are distinct, and bluntly triangular. The upper part of 

 the propleurae and the apical, more particularly in the 

 middle, are stoutly striated, the upper part strongly 

 aciculated, the base smooth. Mesopleuraii opaque, 

 coarsely aciculated ; the apical part finely striated ; the 

 lower furrow is wide and stoutly striated. Metapleurae 

 closely, rugosely punctured, the punctuation running 

 into striations towards the apex. Mesosternum shining, 

 aciculated ; the central furrow crenulated. Legs pale 

 fulvous ; the anterior coxae and trochanters pallid 

 yellow ; the middle coxa^ infuscated, the anterior broadly 

 black in the middle behind ; the hinder femora are lined 

 with black above ; the apex of the tibice and the base of 

 the tarsi are black ; the remainder of the tarsi white ; the 



