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Head shining ; the face and clypeus thickly covered with 



silvery pubescence, the front and vertex with longer black 



hair. The vertex is bordered by a shallow, smooth and 



shining furrow, which is widest behind ; the front ocellus 



is bordered by a smooth furrow ; in front of it is a narrow, 



longitudinal one ; the apex of the clypeus is somewhat 



triangularly depressed in the middle. Mandibles entirely 



black, shining. Thorax rufous ; the sternum black ; 



covered rather thickly with long pale hair. Pro- and 



meso-notum thickly punctured ; the parapsidal furrows are 



distinct to near the apex ; the scutellum is punctured 



like the mesonotum ; the post-scutellum is much more 



finely punctured. Median segment reticulated ; at the 



base in the middle is an elongated area which is narrowed 



and rounded at the apex. Propleurae punctured at the 



base ; on the lower side before the apex are four stout, 



longitudinal keels ; the mesopleuras similarly punctured ; 



the apex with a few longitudinal keels. Metapleurae 



reticulated ; the base with deep punctures; the two parts 



being separated by a smooth, shallow band. Mesosternum 



closely and strongly punctured ; the middle furrowed ; 



the basal half depressed in the middle. Legs thickly 



covered with white hair ; the calcaria pale, the anterior 



rufous. Wings fuscous, with a slight violaceous tinge ; 



the nervures fuscous, the apical faint ; the second cubital 



cellule at the top is distinctly shorter than the third ; the 



second transverse cubital nervure is straight above, sharply 



oblique below ; the first transverse cubital nervure is 



sharply oblique, only curved on the lower side. Abdomen 



shining ; the basal four segments thickly covered with 



silvery hair at their apices ; the apical segments thickly 



covered with long black hair; the petiole and the second 



segment, except in the middle at the base, strongly 



punctured. 



