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men also red; light markings dorsally pale creamy, ventrally white; 

 head broad; clypeus minutely granular; antennae red strongly suf- 

 fused with blackish, apex of scape and base of flagellum brighter 

 red; third joint shorter than fourth; front and vertex more or less 

 striate; mesothorax v^ery densely and minutely punctured, with two 

 parallel bands of pale ochreous hair, a spot of hair at each posterior 

 corner, and a band in scutello-mesothoracic suture; pleura with a 

 large bare densely punctured patch; scutellum rather strongly 

 bilobeci; axillar teeth very short; wings somewhat dusky, brownish; 

 abdomen with broad, continuous light ochreous bancis on segments 

 1 to 4, that on first notched in middle anteriorly; black area on 

 first segment a broad transverse band; light band on second seg- 

 ment with a large oblique lobe (directed mesad) laterally, giving 

 the outline of a scythe; modified apical patch rounded; last ventral 

 segment curved downward at end. 



$ Clypeus all black; scape black; fiagellum dusky reddish, with- 

 out any bright red; face with dense white hair; tubercles black; 

 pleura with a bare patch just below wings, but the lower bare patch 

 small and indistinct; femora black, with red knees; hind margins 

 of second and following abdominal segments brownish; apical plate 

 extremely narrow. 



