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with short, white hair; the middle punctured, but not 

 strongly; the base of the scutellum has a wide oblique 

 slope. Median segment closely transversely striated, the 

 base and apex with the striations finer and closer than on 

 the middle. Propleurae smooth and shining in the middle ; 

 the base strongly aciculated ; the apex coarsely longitu- 

 dinally striated ; the striae much longer in the middle, 

 extending triangularly backwards to the middle. Meso- 

 pleurae closely punctured ; running into striations near the 

 tubercles ; the apex coarsely crenulated. Metapleurae 

 coarsely punctured above ; the apex coarsely striated ; the 

 part below the furrow closely and somewhat obliquely 

 striated. The four anterior coxae are black ; largely 

 yellow at the sides and in front; the hinder coxae black, 

 except for an oval mark in the middle behind ; the 

 trochanters black at the base; the anterior yellowish at 

 the apex ; the anterior femora, tibiae and tarsi fulvous, the 

 tarsi with a more yellowish hue ; the middle femora, tibiae 

 and tarsi rufous ; the hinder femora rufous, black at the 

 apex; the hinder tibiae and tarsi black; the tibiae with a 

 whitish-yellow band near the base. Wings hyaline; the 

 base with a slight fuscous tinge; the stigma and nervures 

 black ; the areolet oblique, slightly appendiculated ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received in its apical third. Abdomen 

 closely punctured, very slightly only on the base of the 

 petiole and on the apical segment ; on the apices of the 

 first, second and third segments are yellow marks ; that 

 on the first triangular, on the second and third longer, 

 and narrowed on the inner side, the fourth has a complete 

 band, widened at the sides, the others have large marks 

 laterally, all narrowed to a point on the inner side; the 

 ventral segments are broadly banded with pale yellow. 



The $ has the four anterior legs of a more yellowish 

 hue, the coxae being entirely yellow and without any 



