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above, fore and mid tibia? and tarsi mostly -^.vhitish yellow, fourth, 

 and fifth joints of fore tarsi and third, fourth and fifth joints of 

 mid tarsi l)rownish to l)lackish. hind til)i;p l)lack beneath, l)ro\mish 

 above^ yellowish at base, hind tarsi l)lackish except at base of hind 

 metatarsi Avhere they are yellowish, claws pectinate and with red- 

 dish l)rown tips; propodeum, l)]ack, rugulose, dullish and covered 

 with silvery pubescence, nearly twice as long as broad at base, with 

 a median, shallow, narrow, longitudinal furrow that is transversely 

 striate, with a poorly circumscribed basal area and areola, the 

 latter open at apex, apical transverse carina represented on each 

 side by a short carina, abdomen shining, covered with pale pubes- 

 cence and compressed like a thin knife blade, truncate at apex, first 

 segment cylindrical with the apical third bulbous, black except the 

 postpetiole which is reddish apically and laterally, spiracles dis- 

 tinctly nearer to each other than to the apex, venter beyond the 

 first segment brownish stramineous, second tergite black except for 

 the basal half which is brownish stramineous on the lateral fourths, 

 thyridia stramineous, cuneiform, nearly one-sixth the length of 

 the tergite, nearly adjoining the lateral edge of the tergite and the 

 apical end of the basal half of the tergite, apical half of second 

 tergite reddish along the lateral edge and with subapical reddish 

 band, spiracles apparently nearer to the apical edge than to each 

 other and almost adjoining the lateral edge, third tergite reddish 

 except a longitudinal black streak above on the basal two-thirds, 

 which streak broadens out toward the base of the tergite, the 

 following tergites reddish except for a blackish tinge along tho 

 upper edge of the fifth and sixth tergites, sheaths of the ovipositor 

 blackish and hardly longer than the apical truncature of the 

 abdomen. 



