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by a transverse carina above; propodeal spiracles rather small and oval. 

 Mesoscutum somewhat more coarsely and as closely punctate as the 

 face ; the pro- and mesopleura including the prepectus a little more 

 finely and much more sparsely punctate than the face ; scutellum and 

 metanotum (postscutellum) more coarsely punctate than the mesoscutum; 

 areola and petiolar area of propodeum smooth or nearly so, and some- 

 times separated from each other by transverse rugosities ; dentiparal 

 region much more coarsely punctate than the mesoscutum but more 

 sparsely, the spiracular region confluently and as equally coarsely punc- 

 tate, the pleural region with a finer, sparser puncturation. The mesoscu- 

 tum pubescent like the face ; the apex of scutellum and the propodeum 

 with a much longer and more recumbent pubescence. 



Abdomen somewhat less than twice as long as head and thorax to- 

 gether, elongate fusiform, as wide as the base of the propodeum but 

 not so wide as the mesothorax, the tergites strongly convex from side 

 to side ; basal tergite distinctly longer than the hind coxae and about 

 a third longer than its apical width, the discal carinae extending about 

 to the middle, then continued as rounded ridges nearly to the apex 

 between which the postpetiole is slightly longitudinally furrowed, and 

 laterad of which it is strongly declivous with a lateral carina reaching 

 to the spiracles ; the latter located at one-third from base ; following ter- 

 gites transverse, and becoming gradually shorter towards the apex, the 

 second bein^ longest, the fourth and fifth the widest, and following two 

 the most transverse; second to fifth tergites each with the usual oblique 

 impression on each side at base, and a subapical transverse impression 

 which curves forward on each side to intercept the oblique impression, 

 the area on each side between the impressions very slightly inflated 

 or indistinctly tuberculate, the lateral margins longitudinally depressed 

 and enclosing with the oblique impressions a spiracular protuberance at 

 the basal corners, visible in dorsal view with an emargination behind 

 especially on the second and third tergites ; the second tergite with linear, 

 slightly oblique, deep gastrocoeli reaching nearly to the middle. First 

 to fifth tergites coarsely, closely and more or less confluently rugoso- 

 punctate with oval punctures, the base of the first, however, smooth be- 

 tween the carinae, and the apical margin of the following segments very 

 slightly elevated and smoothish behind the transverse impression, the de- 

 pression on the lateral margins more finely punctate, and the spiracular 

 protuberance and gastrocoeli smooth ; sixth to eighth tergites with the 

 punctuation similar to that of the mesopleura, the eighth somewhat more 

 closely punctate and provided with two short impressed lines converging 

 and meeting at the middle of the base or just in front of the basal mar- 

 gin, with the enclosed triangular area smooth. Epipleura (ventral por- 

 tions of the tergites) rather wide but not strongly chitinized ; the sixth 

 ventrite (hypopygium) squarely and broadly truncate in front of the base 

 of the ovipositor ; protruded portion of the ovipositor about as long as 

 the basal segment and a little longer than its basal or non-protruded por- 

 tion, the sheaths taken together cylindrical, thickly covered with moderate 



