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small, distinct punctures and a short impressed line above tegulae ; 
scutellum not impressed, more sparsely punctured than the 
scutum; dorsal aspect of the propodeum with an incomplete 
longitudinal carina, coarsely coriaceous medianly, laterally granu- 
lar and with few feeble transverse wrinkles; posterior aspect per- 
pendicular, granular and with feeble transverse wrinkles, the 
median longitudinal depression deep, complete, wide above; sides 
of propodeum obliquely striate; mesepisternum sculptured like 
the scutum; legs very feebly spined; longer calcarium of hind 
tibiae somewhat more than half as long as hind beat ; abcissae 
of radius in order of greatest leneth (1, +), 3, 5, 2; abdomen shin- 
ing, very finely sculptured ; pyg cidium fully three times as long 
as basal width, truncate apically. Black, with dense silvery pile, 
first three tergites with apical silvery bands ; wings smoky hyaline ; 
venation dark brown. 
Type-locality—Los Banos, Luzon, P.I. Described from one 
female collected July, 1916, Be F. X. Williams. 
Type—Cat. No. 22112, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Tachytes banoensis, new species. 
Female—Length, 12 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus de- 
pressed, with three nearly equal lateral teeth and a U-shaped 
median notch; the surface of the clypeus convex, and with close 
punctures ; frons with separate, poorly defined punctures; frontal 
line complete and extending above the anterior ocellus to level 
of lateral ocelli; vertex with punctures well separated, depression 
behind lateral ocelli horseshoe-shaped and with a deeply im- 
pressed line extending to supraorbital line; supra-interorbital 
line distinctly less than half as long as hypo-interorbital line, but 
subequal in length with antennal joints two and three; antennae 
rather stout, the third joint somewhat shorter than the fourth; 
thorax punctato-granular; scutellum not impressed; propodeum 
distinctly shorter than the scutum, not sharply truncate, dorsal 
aspect coarsely granular and with a narrow median impressed line 
which on the posterior face becomes wider; abdomen subshining ; 
pygidium rounded apically covered with short brown bristles ; legs 
moderately spined, longer calearium of hind tibiae as long as 
hind basitarsis; second and third abcissae of radius subequal. 
Black, with dense appressed pubescence, that of thorax faintiv 
golden; abdcmen with four silvery bands; thorax with rather 
dense, erect, yellowish-white hair; base of mandibles and the 
tegulae ferruginous; wings yellowish-hyaline; venation  fer- 
ruginous. 
