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distinct punctures that are niostly either adjoining or one or two 

 puncture width apart, non-facetted portion of clypeus punctured 

 much like face, almost inipunctate down the middle, shiny and 

 finely sculptured, facetted portion polished or nearly so, pronotum 

 niostly, deeply ])unetured, sti'iate in and along the deepest portion 

 of the sclerite, dorsulum punctured much like the face, but pol- 

 ished, its notauli deep and ribbed, mesopleura- sculptured much like 

 the dorsulum, sternauli wanting except for a diflference in sculp- 

 ture evidenced by short vertical strife, metapleurte rugoso-punctate, 

 scutel planate or nearly so, rather truncate at apex, areolet peni- 

 angular, its inner side formed by the first transverse cubitus, dis- 

 tinctly longer than the next longest side that is formed by the 

 second transverse cubitus, its upper side or second abscissa of 

 radius a little shorter than the outer side, but a little longer thaii 

 the lower inner side, the latter a little longer than the lower outer 

 side which is the smallest side, nervulus received by the median 

 cell before the basal vein, nervellus broken distinctly below the 

 middle and forming an obtnse angle, fore tibise almost club-shaped, 

 as if pinched near base ; propodeum shiny, the upper aspect separ- 

 ated from the posterior aspect by the apical transverse carina, upper 

 as])ect polished, transversely striate down the middle, punctured 

 laterally, its punctures adjoining or nearly, posterior aspect pol- 

 ished, coarsely reticulate except the upper half of the posterior 

 aspect down the middle; abdomen punctured, its first tergite pol- 

 ished and with its punctures mostly from one to three puncture 

 widths apart, the succeeding tergites a little more closely punc- 

 tured, shiny and finely reticulated, fifth, sixth and seventh tergites 

 with more or less shallow and indistinct punctures, ovipostor ap- 

 parently a little more than 3.5 mm. long, its apex with a rather 

 coarse structure. 



Allotype.— No. 11189, M. C. Z. Southern Pines, Xorth Caro- 

 lina, Feb. 5, 1909 (A. H. Manee). 



Compared with the description of the type given above this 

 differs as follows : Length, 10 mm. ; axial line : temporal line : : 

 19 : 8, malar space : width of mandil)les at base : : 4 : 5, or malar 

 space 168 u, width of mandibles at base 210 u, antemuE 26-jointed, 

 the terminal joint not truncated, but nearly pointed, lower half of 



