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densely sculptured; tegulae dark stramineous, polished, wing base partly 

 blackish brown; subcosta blackish brown, stigma brownish stramineous, 

 rest of veins dull stramineous, membrane with a uniform brownish tinge; 

 legs blackish except for small joints of the tarsi and hind metatarsi which 

 are more or less dark brown; legs covered with golden hairs; scopa typical, 

 its hairs concolorous, pale golden, hairs at base above decidedly darkened; 

 hind metatarsi at most apparently a little wider than mid-metatarsi; pro- 

 podeum with its enclosure poorly defined, shiny and finely reticulated, except 

 for a basal triangular portion which is wrinkled; rest of upper face of pro- 

 podeum finely reticulated and with rather closely arranged shallow punc- 

 tures, and covered with fine, pale, ochreous hair; propodeal pleurae shiny, 

 finely reticulated and with sparse shallow punctures; abdomen with its tergum 

 shining and sculptured much like the propodeal pleurae but with smaller, 

 better-defined, closer punctures, the punctures from three to six or more 

 puncture-widths apart on the first tergite, the punctures hardly closer on the 

 succeeding tergites; second, third and fourth tergites with a thin apical, 

 whitish hair-band that is interrupted in the middle; apical edge of first, 

 second, third and fourth tergites with a stramineous border; second tergite 

 with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion presumably 

 :: 20 : 10; fifth tergite shining, reticulate, its punctures closer and larger 

 than on the other tergites; pygidium nearly pointed at apex; tergum with 

 inconspicuous, pale, nearly erect hairs in addition to the hair-bands; fimbria 

 dark brown, appearing blackish. 



Male. — Length 8 mm.; body black, mostly covered with whitish hair; 

 head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 56 : 64; axial fine : temporal 

 fine :: 29 : 12; temples rounded, nearly trapezoidal; malar line : joint 3 of 

 antennae :: 2 : 8; elevated portion of malar space down its middle much 

 shorter than the depressed portion, head covered with hairs that are con- 

 colorous with the remaining body hairs; front striato-punctate, shiny except 

 below where it is not striate but dullish punctate to the shiny, hairless near- 

 fovea along the eye-margin; ocellocular line : ocelloccipital line : : 12 : 5; 

 face as in the female, clypeo-antennal area finely wrinkled, supraclypeal area 

 shallowly striato-punctate; clypeus convex and sculptured nearly as in the 

 female, sculpture of the clypeus not hidden by the moustache; labrarea 

 broad, truncate, polished; its width at base : greatest length : : 7 : 4; width 

 at apex : length down the middle :: 5 : 4; labrarea at base : distance between 

 lower corners of clypeus :: 7 : 15; labrum with a fringe of pale hairs later- 

 ally; joint 3 of antennae : joint 4 : : 9 : 5; joint 4 and following joints from 

 a little more than one and one-half times as long as thick to nearly twice 

 as long as thick up to the ninth joint, the succeeding joints shorter than the 

 eighth joint; antennae dullish; flagel almost straight in outline; antennae 

 blackish throughout; mandible atypical, rather heavy, extending to the outer 

 edge of the labrum and nearly to end of the basal half of its fellow, black 

 except for the apical fourth which is mostly dull, dark reddish; palpi nearly 

 typical; thorax covered with an abundance of whitish hairs; hairs of dorsulum 

 not much shorter than hair of mesopleurae; dorsulum shiny, finely reticu- 

 lated and closely punctured, the punctures distinct and from nearly adjoining 

 to three puncture-widths apart, mostly nearly adjoining or not more than two 

 puncture-widths apart; notauli represented by a shining line; mesopleurae 

 shiny, with whitish hairs throughout, finely reticulated and mostly covered 

 with adjoining or nearly adjoining shallow pits; scutel hairy and sculptured 

 much like the dorsulum; metanotum hairy and sculptured much like the 

 dorsulum except that the sculpture is denser; tegulae brownish stramineous, 

 partly polished, mostly closely punctured; wing base mostly pale stramineous, 

 partly blackish, subcosta blackish, stigma brownish stramineous, membrane 

 uniformly tinged with brown; legs blackish brown, excepting the tarsi which 

 are rather dark brown; legs mostly covered with whitish hairs; hind metatarsi 

 at most hardly wider than mid-metatarsi and nearly half as wide as hind 

 tibiae at apex of the latter; propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, 



