26 M. A. Carriker 



large, chestnut; the broad antennal bands completely encircle 

 the front, broken at the clypeal suture, front part deep fulvous, 

 sides darker, with the rounded bases pitchy ; a paler internal 

 band, parallel to the lateral portion of the antennal band; 

 interior of head clear. 



Prothorax small, quadrilateral, with sides convex and diverg- 

 ing; anterior margin slightly concave, posterior truncate; lateral 

 bands of brown, widening posteriorly, with a pitchy blotch in 

 region of anterior angles ; a single liair in the posterior angles ; 

 coxal lines showing through. 



Metathorax much larger than prothorax, quadrilateral, anterior 

 and posterior margins truncate ; sides convex, diverging, and 

 slightly sinuate in region of mesothoracic suture ; broad lateral 

 bands of deep smoky brown, with a curving pitchy blotch in the 

 median portion of the sides ; a large, median, ventral dusk spot ; 

 two short hairs in the posterior angles and four very long, stout 

 hairs on each side of the posterior margin, adjacent to the lateral 

 angles. Legs rather small and weak, pale fulvous with a few 

 short hairs. 



Abdomen large, spindle shaped, widest at the fourth and fifth 

 segments ; posterior angles rounded, protruding, furnished with 

 one short hair in segments one to four, one short and one long 

 one in five to seven ; eighth segment conical, with a conspicuous 

 indentation at the tip, one long hair in the anterior angles and 

 two large, pustulated hairs in the median portion ; narrow pitchy 

 brown, lateral bands broken by clear posterior angles ; a clear 

 pustule in the middle of segments two to seven, just within the 

 lateral bands ; clear, pale brown transverse bands, paler on first 

 three segments, extend inward from the lateral bands nearly to 

 the center of the abdomen, broken by broad clear sutures ; pale 

 brown ventral bands connect the ends of these heavier dorsal 

 bands ; a long hair arises from the posterior margin of the trans- 

 verse bands just inside the lateral bands, on segments three to 

 seven ; a row of six short dorsal hairs across the middle of seg- 

 ment five, and two in the middle of segments six and seven ; 

 a heavy and continuous transverse band on segment nine, with 

 another paler band encircling the posterior emargination. 



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