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hair; the flai^clluiii with a pale microscopic down. Vertex 

 strongly, but not closely, punctured ; the part at the sides 

 of the ocelli impunctate ; the hair long and white. l^Vont 

 thickly covered with long white hair, which is longer 

 above and between the antenn;u. Face smooth, finely 

 transversely striated over the clypeus, which is flat in the 

 middle. Base of mandibles covered with silver}- pubes- 

 cence ; the middle below with long golden hair. Palpi 

 dark testaceous. Pronotum closely punctured and thickly 

 covered with long white hair ; mesonotum more strongly, 

 and not so closel}-, punctured and thickly covered with 

 fuscous pubescence. Scutellum large, px'ramidal, coarsely 

 and deeply punctured ; at the base thickl)- covered with 

 dark, the apex with much longer white hair ; in the 

 middle on the basal slope is an irregularly twisted, smooth 

 keel. Median segment stoutly irregularly reticulated, 

 except on the sides of the basal area at the base ; the area 

 does not reach quite to the apex of the basal part of the 

 segment, is V-shaped with the apex rounded ; the apical 

 slope is coarsely reticulated with a keel down the middle. 

 PropleurK obliquely striated ; the apex smooth and raised 

 Mesopleurie coarsely punctured ; thickly covered in the 

 middle with long white hair ; the apex smooth and 

 glabrous. Mesosternum smooth, shining, sparsely 

 punctured ; the area stoutly keeled down the sides ; the 

 keels converging towards the apex. Legs thickly covered 

 with long white hair ; calcaria white. Wings violaceous; 

 the first cubital cellule at the top is about one-fourth 

 longer than the second ; the first recurrent nervure is 

 received shortly beyond the middle ; the second in the 

 apical fourth. Abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole and the 

 apical segment for the greater part black ; the middle 

 segments thickly covered with long fulvous hair; the last 

 segment with the hair paler ; it is smooth down the 



