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the proplcur;c depressed and marked with six stout 

 longitudinal keels. Mesonotum strongly reticulated all 

 over, and thickly covered with longish black hair ; the 

 parapsidal furrows deep, smooth and shining ; they 

 originate shortly before the middle and do not reach to 

 the ai)ex. Scutellum roundly raised, coarsely and deeply 

 punctured all over and covered at the base with blackish, 

 at the apex with longer fuscous hair. Post-scutellum 

 opaque and granular in the middle ; the sides irregularly 

 rugosely punctured ; like the apex of the scutellum it is 

 covered with long pale hair. Median segments stoutly 

 reticulated all over ; the base covered thickly with de- 

 pressed grey pubescence, the rest of it more sparsely with 

 long pale hairs : the basal median area large, about three 

 times as long as broad ; the apical two-thirds gradually 

 narrowed and with the apex lanceolate. Mesopleura: 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, except on the lower 

 part of the base, which is glabrous ; the rest and 

 the sternum thickly covered with longish grey hair. 

 Metapleurai above coarsely reticulated ; there is a smooth 

 space below the middle ; the part under this is punctured. 

 Mesosternum irregularly punctured ; in the centre at the 

 base is a smooth, somewhat triangular, depression. Legs 

 thickly covered with long white hairs ; the spines and 

 calcaria pale. Wings fusco-violaceous ; the nervures 

 dark fuscous ; the second and third cellules at the top 

 are equal in length ; below, the second is longer than the 

 third ; the first recurrent nervure is received a short 

 distance beyond the middle, the second at the base of 

 the apical third of the cellule. The basal three segments 

 of the abdomen are ferruginous ; the petiole becomes 

 gradually wider towards the apex, and is not half the 

 length of the second segment ; it is strongly, but not 

 closely, punctured ; at the base on either side is a stout, 



