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the apex where it is shining and glabrous. Thorax 

 scarcely twice the length of the head, not much narrowed 

 behind ; very coarsely rugosely reticulated ; the sides 

 irregular ; before the middle is a stout tooth ; the median 

 segment at the sides, shortly below the top projects into a 

 large, stout, triangular tooth. Legs short and stout (much 

 shorter than in M. carsoni) ; the anterior coxae and 

 femora thickly, the posterior more sparsely covered with 

 long white hair ; the four posterior tibiae and tarsi thickly 

 covered with stiff silvery hair ; the fore tarsi short and 

 thick, above strongly punctured, its lower side with three 

 large stout spines ; the apex shining, piceous. The basal 

 two segments of the abdomen nearly as long as the head 

 and thorax united, black ; on the extreme base of the 

 second segment are two small silvery marks, broader than 

 long ; on either side of the third segment is a large, trans- 

 verse mark of silvery pubescence ; the second segment is 

 strongly punctured, the punctures large, deep, elongate, 

 and running into reticulations ; its apex with the punctures 

 very much smaller and more distinctly separated. The 

 basal ventral segment forming a projecting blunt triangle ; 

 the base of the second segment oblique, and having a 

 blunt projection in the middle, strongly punctured, 

 especially at the sides where the punctures are much 

 larger, deeper and more irregular ; the other segments 

 are much more finely and closely punctured, and thickly 

 fringed at the apex with long pale-fulvous hair. The 

 pygidial area closely rugose ; the sides thickly covered 

 with long pale-golden hair; the hypopygium thickly 

 covered with black hair. 



