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sparse, white, microscopic pile. Head coarsely punctured, 

 sparsely covered with short, white hair ; the hinder ocelli 

 in large deep pits. The centre of the clypeus black, 

 except the apex, which is red ; this black and red part 

 coarsely and strongly punctured ; the black narrowed at 

 the base and not keeled laterally ; but the rest is bordered 

 by distinct, reddish, straight keels which converge slightly 

 towards the apex, which is transverse ; its sides, except at 

 the apex, yellow ; and punctured on the outer side. 

 iNIandibles red, yellow at the base ; the palpi yellow; above 

 the antennae is a yellow mark, mitre-shaped, except that it 

 is roundly produced beneath. Thorax black ; two large 

 marks on the middle of the pronotum — narrow at the base, 

 wide, and oblique at the apex, the post-scutellum, and a 

 somewhat pyriform mark, below and in front of the 

 teguLne, yellow. Pro- and meso-notum with the scutella 

 strongly punctured ; the base of the median segment in 

 the centre reticulated, densely covered with white pubes- 

 cence, especially at the centre of the base, where it almost 

 hides the surface. Pro- and meso-pleurae strongly 

 punctured, covered with silvery hair ; the metapleurae 

 apparently impunctate, the surface hidden by silvery pubes- 

 cence. Tegulai yellow, reddish in middle. Wings hyaline ; 

 the nervures and costa blackish ; the stigma fuscous ; the 

 second cubital cellule at the top narrowed, being there 

 not much wider than the space bounded by the first 

 transverse cubital and the first recurrent nervures. Legs 

 red, the tibiae yellow on the outside, this being also, to a 

 less extent, the case with the tarsi at the base. Petiole 

 red ; yellow at the apex above ; shining, punctured towards 

 the apex ; the second segment obscurely punctured at 

 the base, more strongly towards the apex ; an oval, 

 irregular spot on either side near the apical third ; its 

 apex with a moderately broad, yellow band, slightly 

 dilated at the sides, and at the middle ; the 3 — 5 segments 



