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KEY TO SEPARATE THE SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE AND 
FORMOSAN METHOCA., 
Females. 
Dise of pronotum finely but distinctly striate, frontal process 
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Disc of pronotum not striate or with only a very few median 
striae; frontal process strong (except in the impunctate 
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Head, thorax and abdomen glossy, almost wholly impunctate ; 
clypeus simple, i. e., no dull thin apical portion; jet black 
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Head at least, somewhat punctate or striate, clypeus with a 
thin dull apical portion (do not mistake the hair-fringed 
2 
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Thorax reddish ; propodeum widest posteriorly and there sub- 
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Thorax black ; propodeum not subtruncate posteriorly.... 4 
No striae on vertex or upper part of frons; form very slen- 
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Distinct striae on frons and vertex, form moderately slender 
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Males. 
Antennae beneath with two ranks of curved hair; posterior 
face of propodeum truncate and bounded by a carina.... 
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Not havineatheaboyercharacters ses. 2 ie acacia tei ee 2 
The sternite before the apical spine, deeply and narrowly 
cleft; clypeus without a pale and thin apical portion... 3 
The sternite before the apical spine, at most shallowly emar- 
ginate; clypeus with a thin pale apical portion....... 4 
Propodeum with large well-marked areolate spaces through- 
out the disc; a row of vertical carinae on propleura...... 
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Propodeum comparatively, rather finely rugulose; no row of 
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Gular suture marked by transverse foveae extending from 
three-quarters to the entire distance between the occipital 
ridge and the labium; puncturation near the suture deep 
and general; well-defined punctures on disc of at least the 
anterior two-thirds of pronotum; wings clear... punctata 
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