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short line above the middle of the outer orbits, yellow. 

 The head behind the eyes is strongly punctured ; the 

 punctures all clearly punctured ; the vertex is more strongly 

 punctured. The clypeus is of a paler yellow than the face, 

 is black at the base, and is strongly punctured, especially 

 at the sides ; the mandibles yellow, black at the apex. 

 Thorax black ; densely covered with dark fulvous 

 pubesence ; the pro- and meso-thorax closely and 

 strongly punctured ; the propleurae in the middle behind 

 longitudinally striolated ; the mesopleurae at the base 

 above with curved striations, below with the striations 

 oblique, between these irregularly reticulated ; the depres- 

 sion at the apex is crenulated. Scutellum thickly 

 covered with long, fuscous hair ; the base is, if anything, 

 more strongly punctured than the mesonotum ; the sides 

 to the apex longitudinally striolated, running into irregular 

 reticulations ; the apex in the middle is rough, irregularly 

 obscurely reticulated. Median segment strongly reticu- 

 lated ; at the base the areae are longer than broad, in the 

 middle broader than long ; in the middle at the apex the 

 keels form a large area rounded and narrowed at the base, 

 and having inside of it three stout, slightly curved keels. 

 The metapleurae at the base have at the top a wide and 

 rather deep depression, the sides of which are oblique, the 

 middle with some stout, transverse keels; the rest of them 

 strongly and irregularly reticulated. The four anterior 

 legs are yellow, the femora more fulvous in tint ; the 

 hinder coxae are black, the apex reddish ; the middle 

 beneath yellow, the hinder trochanters bright, the femora 

 dark rufous ; the basal two-thirds of the hinder tibiae of a 

 still darker rufous ; the apex black ; the hinder tarsi 

 yellowish fulvous, densely covered with fulvous — dark on 

 the metatarsus, brighter on the apical joints — hair ; the 

 second joint flat on the inner side, with the apex dilated. 



