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little longer than either the 3rd or 4th, 5th and 6th successively shorter 

 but elongate : labium with the glossa and palpi about equal in length to 

 the mentum, paraglossae not quite attaining the apex of the first palpal 

 joint, the palpi 4-jointed elongate, first 3 joints flattened, 4th subcylin- 

 drical, 2nd joint longest as long as 3rd and 4th together, glossa hairy 

 acuminate, lance-linear. 



Wings with two closed cubital cells, the second receiving the recur- 

 rent nervures, about 1/5 its length from either end. Stigma well devel- 

 oped, radial cell lanceolate, pointed on the wing margin, transverse median 

 a little before the basal. Cubital cells subequal on the cubitus, the sec- 

 ond narrowed in front, only about 1/3 as long on the radius as on the 

 cubitus. 



Head flattened elongate, mandibles $ unidentate within, labrum free 

 large, not twice as long as broad, clypeus strongly produced, malar 

 space 2/i as long as wide, genae very narrow, occiput well developed, 

 wider than the width of the eye. 



Collar sloping in front not narrowed medially. Scutellum simple, 

 propodeal area well defined, propodeum rounded abruptly down to the 

 posterior face which is notcarinate laterally. 



Claws unequally cleft. Hind tibiae of female flattened with a stiff" 

 scopa on both sides, broader than the basitarsus. Legs of male more or 

 less deformed. 



$ Antennae short, clavate only the terminal segment of the 

 flagellum as long as broad, second and third flagellar joints ringlike, 

 forming, with the first, a sort of funicle which tapers from the 6-jointed 

 club. ^ Antennae deformed, segments 1-4 of the flagellum forming 

 a bulb-shaped structure emarginate beneath and this strongly concave 

 under surface with a dense brush of short stiff erect brown hairs, sixth 

 abdominal segment 9 retracted. ^ Abdomen deformed, la.st tergite with 

 a longitudinal median area. 



Type Mimulapis z'crsatilis Bridwell. 



Mimulapis versatilis n. sp. 



Black with some chalybaeus reflections on head, thorax and abdomen 

 above. Mandibles more or less piceous, legs and antennae brownish, ter- 

 gites with the depressed margins broadly and the sternites more narrowly 

 brownish translucent. 



Rather loosely pubescent with whitish pubescence which becomes 

 brownish or fulvous on the mandibles, labrum, clypeus, mesonotum, tibiae 

 in part, tarsi, venter and tergites 3-5. 



Clypeus convex with a few coarse scattered punctures, a fine furrow 

 extends from between the antennae a little more than half the distance 

 to the anterior ocellus, front and vertex closely and strongly punctured, 

 the punctures confluent on the occiput. Mesonotum similarly punctured, 

 the furrows well defined; scutellum more sparsely punctured shining; 

 metanotum shagreened ; area of propodeum irregularly longitudinally 

 striate basally, with a few transverse striae apically ; mesopleurae more 



