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sculptured like the occiput, but with the narrow posterior margin of the strongly 

 transverse dorsal portion smooth; mesoscutum with the parapsidal grooves 

 deeply impressed anteriorly, but fading out entirely posteriorly; sculpture of 

 scutellum and axillae similar to that of mesoscutum, but more dense, the 

 punctures somewhat smaller ; propodeum with a large subglobose neck, which 



Figure 16. — Polyscelis modestus Gahan : A, Adult female; B, antenna of female; 

 C, antenna of male ; D, median leg of male ; E, wings of male. A, X 26. 



is set off from the rest of the propodeum by a rather deep transverse groove 

 or constriction ; lateral folds of propodeum strongly developed, median longi- 

 tudinal carina weak, the area between the folds weakly sculptured and densely 

 hairy ; anterior wings reaching beyond the apex of abdomen ; postmarginal vein 

 distinctly longer than the stigmal and subequal to or very slightly shorter 

 than the marginal ; hind coxae conspicuously covered with hairs dorsally ; 



