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The radial cross-vein oijposite R.- or separated therefrom by a distance 

 not greater than that between r-m and Mg^^. Dorsal segments 2, 3, and 

 4 slightly depressed at base. 



Type. — Masaris edwardsii Cresson. 



Pseudomasaris (Cotyledon) edwardsii Cresson 



Figures 10, 31-33, 78, 108 



1872. Masaris edwardsii Cresson, (^, J. Transactions American Entomo- 



logic Society, vol. 4, p. 87. 

 1904. Pseudomasaris edwardsi Dalle Torre. Genera Inseetorum, fasc. 19, 



p. 8. 



(^. Black; the following parts mustard yellow: clypeus, lab rum, 

 mandibles, except tips, large spot on front, interior orbits, line behind 

 the eyes, antenna except stripe on segments 3 to 5 above, and posterior 

 part of the club above, humeri, spot below, posterior border of the 

 pronotum, tegula, large spot below, narrow subapical line on scutellum 

 interrupted medially, two small basal spots on propodeum, propodeal 

 angles, spot below, spot on all coxae, anterior and middle trochanters 

 beneath, anterior and middle femora except above at base, posterior 

 femur at apex, extending nearly to the base in front, all tibiae and 

 metatarsi, subapical band on first dorsal segment, three subapical bars 

 on second, subapical band deeply incised on third and fourth, apical 

 half of fifth, two-thirds of sixth, and half of seventh dorsal segment, 

 except tubercles, band on second ventral segment, on the third, apical 

 two-thirds of the fourth, fifth entirely banded, and irregular marks on 

 sixth ; wings hyaline, slightly infuscated in the cell 2d R^ -|- R, ; veins 

 ferruginous. 



Front densely but rather finely punctate with an obsoletely punc- 

 tate tubercle above the antennae, strongly depressed before the base 

 of the clypeus ; this obsoletely punctate, moderately convex. 



Pronotum closely and rather coarsely punctate, mesonotum densely 

 punctate, the posterior portion flattened with coarser and confluent 

 punctuation ; scutellum slightly convex, anteriorly finel,y, posteriorly 

 more coarsely punctate ; pleura with separated punctures. 



Anterior femur with a median tubercle and ridge beneath ; the 

 posterior margin of the tibia seen from above, sinuate ; tarsi depressed 

 and broad, without a prominent fringe of cilia, segments 2 to 4 very 

 short and broad ; middle femur irregularly concave, carinate, and 

 tuberculate beneath ; middle tibia contorted, concave, and irregularly 

 carinate beneath and in front, the anterior margin from an external 

 view with a strong median tooth, the apex with a group of short spines 

 in front ; hind femur with a brush of dark hairs beneath at base, the 

 surface slightly irregular. 



Abdomen rather finely densely punctate ; tubercles of the second 

 ventral segment polished and shining; the surface of the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth ventral segments short tomentose. 



