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hut distinct penta«;onal signature; antennal bands 

 broad and dark, continuing beyond the suture; behind 

 tlie obtuse posterior angle of the signature a narrow 

 longitudinal uncolored space extending to the mandi- 

 bles; temples bordered by a very narrow line of dark 

 brown slightly broader just below the eye; a distinct 

 though pale occipital signature. 



Prothorax (piadrangular, yery sliort, broadly rounded, 

 angles with one rather long hair; pale medially with 

 dark brown lateral margins that bend in along the pos- 

 terior margin. Metathorax pentagonal with widely 

 diyerging sides; posterior angles acute; six hairs in the 

 angle and along the posterior margin; the posterior 

 margin with a distinct elongate angle on the abdomen; 

 dark lateral markings broadest on the posterior angles. 

 Legs pale golden brown with slightly darker marginal 

 markings. 



Abdomen slightly elongate-oyal, turbinate; posterior 

 margins of segments 1-3 angulated, and anterior mar- 

 gins of segments G-9 more obtusely angled: lateral 

 angles of segments with one to three hairs; a few hairs 

 on dorsal surface arranged along the posterior margins 

 of the segments; posterior margin of segment 9 

 broadly rounded, with ten rather long hairs, several 

 shorter hairs on dorsal surface of segment; color of 

 abdomen fuscous; segment 1 without distinct lateral 

 blotches, but segments 2-7 with dark brown to l>lack lat- 

 eral blotches, darkest in anterior angles and extending 

 along the anterior maririn of each seiiment almost to 

 tlie median line; segment S but little darker in anterior 

 angle, and segment of an even pale fuscous; genitalia 

 distinctly showing through, extending to segment G. 



Female, body, length 1.7r> mm., width .0 mm.; head, 

 length .55 mm., width .47 mm.: lateral abdominal 



