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Antennae black ; the flafjellum obscure brownish 

 beneath, bare; the scape with a few long, white hairs. 

 Face elongate ; keeled down the middle of the clypeus, 

 closely longitudinally striated from the antennae to the 

 apex of the clypeus; the labrum smooth, shining, fringed 

 at the apex with long, golden hair. Mandibles entirely 

 black ; the base with some long, white hairs. Front and 

 vertex closeh' punctured; the sides, behind the antennae, 

 thickly covered with short, pale golden hair. Mesonotum 

 alutaceous, closely punctured ; an indistinct furrow down 

 the sides; the scutellum punctured like the mesonotum, 

 slightly depressed in the middle. Post-scutellum thickly 

 covered with pale fulvous pubescence. The basal area on 

 the median segment extending from side to side; sharply 

 keeled at base and apex; irregularly longitudinally strio- 

 lated ; the segments from the area thickly covered with 

 long, pale fulvous hair, and bearing large shallow punc- 

 tures. Pleurae shagreened ; the mesopleura^ punctured, 

 thickly covered with long, pale fulvous hair. Legs entirely 

 black, except the claws, which are piceous ; thickly covered 

 with pale pubescence. Wings fuscous, tinged with fulvous ; 

 the costa and stigma black; the nervures fuscous; the 

 second cubital cellule hardly narrower at top than at 

 bottom ; at top slightly more than one-half the length of 

 the top of the third ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 quite close to the transverse cubital. Abdomen shining, 

 very minutely punctured; all the segments with a smooth 

 belt of purple at their apices ; the base of the petiole 

 covered with longish, pale golden hair; the others at the 

 base sparsely covered with long, black hair. Ventral 

 segments obscure brownish; shining, the apices of the 

 segments pale. 



A very distinct species, easily separated by the 

 violaceous bands on the abdomen and by the fuscous 

 wings. 



