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third the total width of head; ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the 

 posterior pair remote from the occipital margin and almost touch- 

 ing the eye margins; cheeks short, but not much shorter than the 

 width of the eyes; face convex, the scrobes v«ry small, suboval, not 

 much longer than their distance apart, each containing the small 

 round antennal socket and separated from each other by the broad 

 low prominence between the antennae, which is about twice as long 

 as wide, parallel-sided, not at all protuberant, and merging above 

 into the contour of the face. 



Antennae inserted moderately far apart, rather close to the oral 

 margin; scape short in comparison with Hovudotylus, cylindrical, 

 a little thicker at the middle, including the radicle nearly as long as 

 the pedicel and funicle combined, but much too short to reach to 

 the anterior ocellus, pedicel very short or hardly longer than thick; 

 funicle six-jointed, cylindrical, and increasing very slightly in thick- 

 ness distad; the first joint ringlike, more than twice as thick as 

 long, hardly more than one-fourth as long as the next joint; the 

 other five joints subequal in size, the second and third as long 

 as wide, the sixth somewhat wider than long; club, except the ex- 

 treme base, missing in the unique type, but the remnant indicates 

 that it is at least somewhat wider than the funicle. 



Mandibles unusually short and broad, with three coarse, spread- 

 ing, acute teeth, the middle tooth the largest, the outer one much 

 the smallest, the apex lying in the same plane as the base and 

 moderately curved inward. Maxillary palpi short, four-jointed, 

 the basal joint very short, transverse, the second about thrice as 

 long as thick, the third one-third shorter than the second, the fourth 

 much thinner than the preceding joint and about as long as the 

 second; labial palpi two-jointed, the joints about equal in length, 

 the first thrice as long as thick, the second oval and thicker. 



Thorax fully twice as long as wide, depressed, the thickness dorso- 

 ventrally less than the width, the parts of the mesonotum lying in 

 one plane ; pronotum moderately arcuate ; mesoscutum twice as wide 

 as long; axillae large, broadly contiguous at inner tips; scutellum 

 rather small, the sides slightly bulging, abruptly declivous and mod- 

 erately elevated, the apex rather acutely rounded, the disk depressed, 

 the length and basal width about equal; propodeum moderately 

 large, much shortened medially, transversely convex, and consider- 

 ably sloping toward the apex. 



Abdomen about two-thirds as long as the thorax, somewhat less 

 than twice as long as wide, depressed above, the outline in the form 

 of an oval strongly truncated at basal end; cereal plates situated a 

 little beyond the middle ; venter slightly compressed, the sides gently 

 sloping to the median line, the last ventrite reaching to the apex 

 and inclosing the internal part of the ovipositor, which reaches ap- 

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