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the middle ; the top of tlic keel dilated, and with an 

 elongated fovea in the middle; this part is smooth, shininc^ 

 and glabrous ; the sides are thickly covered with silvery 

 hair ; the mandibles are rufous in the middle and fringed 

 with long golden hair ; they have one large tooth. Pal]ji 

 fuscous. Antenn;e stout ; the third joint is slightly longer 

 than the fourth. Pronotum, except at the base, rugosely 

 punctured ; the pleura,- slightly hollowed, and indistinctly 

 marked with some stout striations. Mesopleura; in the 

 middle coarsely punctured, and thickly covered with white 

 hair. Metapleurce at the base smooth, its lower side 

 indistinctly reticulated ; the apex with large reticulations. 

 Mesonotum shining, bearing all over large, deep punctures 

 and covered with moderately long black hair ; there are 

 two furrows. Scutellum coarsely rugoseh' punctured ; 

 roundly raised ; covered with long hairs, which are fuscous 

 at the base, longer and paler on the apex ; in the centre 

 of the basal half is a flat, smooth, shining, cone-shaped 

 space. Median segment reticulated ; thickly covered 

 with long pale hairs ; the base also with a depressed 

 silvery down ; the central area is large and reaches to the 

 middle ; its apical half is narrowed ; in the centre of the 

 basal half is an indistinct longitudinal keel; the apex of 

 the segment is oblique. Legs thickly covered with white 

 hair ; the spurs and spines white. Wings fuscous, slightly 

 violaceous ; the nervures fuscous ; the second cubital 

 cellule at the top and bottom is longer than the third, 

 especially beneath ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 at the base of the apical third, the second at the base of the 

 apical fourth of the cellule ; the second transverse cubital 

 nervure is sharply angled shortly above the middle. Abdo- 

 men ferruginous ; the petiole, except at the apex, and the 

 apical two segments, black ; the petiole is strongly, but not 

 closely, punctured ; the middle segments are fringed with 



