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Thorax :— Prothorax rounded, dull, finely sculptured, more shining 

 and distinctly punctured on the narrow median portion ; mesonotUm 

 finely sculptured, dullish, with a long depression on each side of the 

 middle of anterior margin, punctures of two kinds present with and with- 

 out hairs, the setigerous ones the larger ; scutellum polished, with large, 

 sparse punctures ; postscutellum dull, indistinctly punctured on the sides ; 

 tegulae polished, rounded behind, indistinctly punctured ; metathorax 

 with a flat semicircular disc longitudinally rugulose, sides dull, with 

 sparse setigerous punctures, posterior face bearing sparse setigerous 

 punctures and a median, dull, impressed space; scopa with plumose 

 hairs on the superior margin — in between the hairs are simple, metatarsus 

 of posterior leg one-half the width of the tibia, posterior coxae produced, 

 tubercula^e, claws cleft, the inner tooth nearly as long as the apical tooth ; 

 wings — distance from the stigma to the first transverse cubitus on the 

 radius equal to about three-fourths the distance from the first to the sec- 

 ond transverse cubitus on the radius, distance between the first transverse 

 cubitus and first recurrent nervure on the cubitus a little greater than the 

 distance between the second recurrent nervure and the second transverse 

 cubitus, transverse median nervure slightly basad of basal nervure ; pu- 

 bescence present on the thorax, except on the disc of the metathorax, 

 thin and whitish, most abundant and thickest on the sides of the thorax ; 

 entirely black, including stigma and nervures, membrane blackish, pos- 

 terior tibiae inclining to brown. 



Abdomen : — Black, with testaceous margins to the segments, second 

 segment depressed nearly one-half, shining, finely sculptured, covered 

 with long and short hairs. 



Maxillary palpi six-jointed, the first joint a little shorter than the sec- 

 ond, the second joint about three-fourths the length of the combined 

 length of the four terminal short joints, which are subequal ; labial palpi 

 ft)urjomted, joint one nearly as long as 2-I-3 + 4, 2 a little longer than 

 3-I-4, which are subequal, a very distinct fringe of hairs on basal joint of 

 labial palpi. 



(^. 6.5-7 "^"i- Similar to the female, with the following exceptions: 

 Frontal impression hidden by pubescence on the lower half ; antennae 

 moniliform, reaching beyond the tegulae, all joints dull sericeous, joint 3 

 especially hairy, the hairs very short, jomt 2^3 in length, 2 + 3 shorter 

 than 4, 4 and beyond subequal ; metatarsus of posterior legs about two- 

 thirds as wide as the tibia ; distance between second recurrent nervure 

 and second transverse cubitus a little greater than the distance between 

 the first transverse cubitus and the first recurrent nervure ; abdomen 

 rather polished, second segment depressed one-third, margins pruinose. 



Cotypes in Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Paratypes in Coll. 

 U. S. N. M. and Boston Society of Nat. Hist. 

 Type locality, Waldoboro, Me. 



