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terior part (scutum) slender and coarsely rugose, then follows 
a small median pit, and then the large oblong and convex scutel- 
lum, which is well margined and sparsely punctate and a little 
aciculate transversely ; pleura of anterior portion of mesothorax 
with a few large and curved longitudinal carinae; posterior to 
this they are striate and punctate. Metathorax inconspicuous, 
propodeum nodose, polished, with sparse large punctures and 

Fig. 7. Methoca striatella, @, X< 7.5. 
some aciculations, laterally and posteriorly mostly smooth, stigma 
oval; legs slender; claws with a basal tooth. Abdomen dorsally 
impunctate, a few scattered punctures ventrally. Generally 
clothed with rather sparse, erect white hair. 
Male, allotype: Length to extremity of anal spine, 9mm. Black; 
apical half of mandibles, ridge under first article of antennae 
brownish; tarsi largely brow nish, with rest of legs almost black, 
tegulae in part ye ellowish ; wings hyaline; head much wider than 
thorax; mandibles bidentate, with coarse confluent punctures 
except at tip; clypeus truncate, rather shallowly emarginate at 
truncation, with rather sparse punctures and a medain pointed 
tubercle; front closely punctate except at furrow between an- 
tennae, and becoming scattered punctate towards vertex, which 
is sparsely punctate; ocelli large and forming almost an equilat- 
