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pronotum it is thicker, more depressed, and pale fulvous : 

 on tiic scutelluui lons^er and darker. Mesonotum deeply 

 and coarsely punctured, the two furrows on the hinder 

 half are wide and deep ; there is an indistinct keel on the 

 middle at the base. Median segment coarsely reticulated, 

 thickly covered with pale fulvous pubescence : its apex 

 has a gradually rounded slope ; the middle basal area is 

 about four times as long as the width at the base ; at 

 the base its sides are straight, then oblique on the widened 

 part. Propleura,^ except above, smooth ; the middle 

 raised part of the mesopleura^ bearing shallow punctures 

 and thickly covered with tulvous pubescence : the apex of 

 the metapleurai reticulated. Legs thickly covered with 

 long pale hair : the calcaria white. Wings violaceous ; 

 the nervures black ; the first cubital cellule at the top is 

 almost double the length of the third ; the recurrent 

 nervure is received near the base of the apical third. 

 Abdomen black, thickly covered with long white hair ; 

 the basal two segments ferruginous ; the apex of the 

 pygidial area is depressed, with a distinctly raised border. 

 The keel on the ventral surface of the petiole is straight, 

 not dilated at base or ape.^ ; the sides are strongly 

 punctured ; the epipygium is strongly punctured and 

 thickly covered with long black hairs. Tegular smooth, 

 large, black with a plumbeous hue ; the base and inner 

 side covered with long pale hairs. 



Comes near to M. Iiojiorata here described ; but that 

 has the third abdominal segment red and thickly covered 

 with white pubescence ; the top of its head is more 

 rugosely purtctured and more distinctly reticulated in the 

 middle ; the first cubital cellule at the top is not much 

 longer than the third and the abdominal keel is dilated at 

 the base and apex. 



