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by a transverse carina above; propodcal spiracles rather small and oval. 

 Mesoscuttim somewhat more coarsely and as closely punctate as the 

 face ; the pro- and mesopleura including the prepectus a little more 

 finely and much more sparsely punctate than the face ; scutellum and 

 metanotum (postscutellum ) more coarsely punctate than the mesoscutum ; 

 areola and petiolar area of propodeum smooth or nearly so, and some- 

 times separated from each other by transverse rugosities ; dentiparal 

 region much more coarsely punctate than the mesoscutum Init more 

 sparsely, the spiracular region confluently and as equally coarsely punc- 

 tate, the pleural region with a finer, sparser puncturation. The mesoscu- 

 tum puliescent like the face; the apex of scutellum and the iM-opndcum 

 with a much longer and more recumbent pubescence. 



Abdomen somewhat less than twice as long as head and thorax to- 

 gether, elongate fusiform, as wide as the base of the propodeum Imt 

 not so wide as the mesothorax, the tergites strongly convex from sick- 

 to side ; basal tergite distinctly longer than the hind coxae and aliout 

 a third longer than its apical width, the discal carinae extending about 

 to the middle, then continued as rotuided ridges nearly to tlie ape.x 

 between which the postpetiole is slightly longitudinally furrowed, and 

 laterad of which it is strongly declivous with a lateral carina reaching 

 to the spiracles ; the latter located at one-third from base ; following ter- 

 gites transverse, and becoming gradually shorter towards the apex, the 

 second being longest, the fourth and fifth the widest, and following two 

 the most transverse ; second to fifth tergites each with the usual oblique 

 impression on each side at base, and a subapical transverse impression 

 which curves forward on each side to intercept the oblique impression, 

 the area on each side l^etween the impressions \ery slightly inflated 

 or indistinctly tuberculate, the lateral margins longitudinally depressed 

 and enclosing witli tin- ()l)lique impressions a s])iracular protuberance at 

 the ba.sal corners, visible in dorsal view- with an emargination behind 

 e.specialh' on the second and third tergites; the second tergite with linear, 

 slightly obliqtie, deep gastrocoeli reaching nearly to the middle. First 

 to fifth tergites coarsely, closely and more or less confluently rugoso- 

 punctate with oval punctures, the l)ase of the first, however, smooth be- 

 tween the carinae, and the apical margin of the following segments very 

 slightly elevated and smoothish behind the transverse impression, the de- 

 pression on the lateral margins more finely punctate, and the spiracular 

 protuberance antl gastrocoeli smooth; sixth tn eighth tergites witli tlie 

 punctuation similar to that of the mesopleura, the eighth somewhal more 

 closely ptmctate and provided with two short impressed lines con\erging 

 and meeting at the nfiddle of the Ikisc or just in front of the basal mar- 

 gin, with the enclosed triangular area smooth. Epipleura (\intral por- 

 tions of the tergites) rather wide but not strongl\- chitinized ; llie si.xtli 

 ventrite ( hypopygium ) squarely and broadly truncate in front of the I)ase 

 of the o\ipositor ; i)r(itruded portion of the o\ipositor aboiu as long as 

 the I)asal segment and a little longer than its basal or non-protruded por- 

 tion, the sheaths taken together cylindrical, thickly covered with moderate 



