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broad behind the eyes, but head subtriangular, viewed laterally'. Viewed 

 from above the head is very broadly semieirculany rounded behind. Ver- 

 tex smooth and shining with very few subobsolete punctures, and thinlv 

 clothed with yellowish hairs which are mostly directed cephalad; the 

 two hind ocelli are much nearer to each other than to the eyes. Genae 

 coarsely punctured and with the occipital margin bearing many Iou-j- 

 yellowish hairs and some short white ones. Gular region with a patch 

 of long white plumose hairs. Of the articles of maxillary palpi, IT and 

 III are subequal in length, IV and V are subequal and three-fourths 

 the length of III; all the articles are compressed and expanded on tln^ 

 inner margin, the second very much the most strongly. Scape and funi- 

 cular joint of antennae honey yellow, the former coarsely punctured 

 and covered with vrithish hairs of varying lengths; flagellum picec)U^^. 

 covered with fine white down, the first article three-fourths the length 

 of the second. The mandibles are clothed with golden hairs and preseni 

 the usual en:argination below, subtended by a small blunt tooth; tips 

 black and ftrongly bidentate, with indication of several smaller ' teeth 

 within. 



Thorax and legs rather conspicuously and thickly long white pubes- 

 cent, the hairs above and in front faintly yellowish. Plumose hairs un- 

 usually abundant, occurring in lines and patches along the sutures of 

 the thorax, sparingly on the surface of the metanotum, on the coxa^.', 

 and around the apical borders of first five abdominal segments. Thorax 

 coarsely rugosely punctured; mesonotum shining and with punctures 

 somewhat sparse, the four grooves rather indistinct and reaching three- 

 fourths the length of the segment or less. Scutellum coarsely rugoso- 

 punctate. 



Metanotum very coarsely reticulate, the leticulations large, sui> 

 pentagonal, and quite uniform in size above, becoming smaller laterally. 

 Mesosternum reticulato-rugose, the teeth large, sharp j^ointed and rather 

 widely separated. 



Tegulae and legs honey yellow, the femora and tibiae witli darker 

 tips. Wings faintly smoky, especially on the apical half; veins pale 

 yellowish, stigma dark brown; apex of marginal cell obtusely pointed; 

 the first recurrent nervure entering tlie second submarginal cell at the 

 middle of its lower margin; transverse median nervure in line with the 

 basal. 



The abdomen is shining, very hairy, the simple hairs above mostly 

 yellowish; second segment with the usual felt lines. First segment 

 rugoso-punctate, seen from above rather short trapezoidal, length about 

 once and a half the width at base, the sides nearly straight, lateral 

 tubercles small, the segment rather strongly-swollen apically and clearly 

 constricted at juncture with second, the ventral ridge somewhat bi- 

 sinuate and obtuse dentate basally. Second segment obscurely and 

 sparsely punctured. Last dorsal segineiii long trapezoidal^ the surface 

 mostly shagreened and shining, with fine punctures before the api.'ai 



