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white around antennae and on inner orbits, extending over the 
extreme sides of the clypeus which is otherwise nearly bare. 
Thorax shining above, white pubescent laterally, behind and 
beneath; on the mesonotum the pubescence is thin and white 
anteriorly, black on the larger part of the disc, with no white 
spots or bands, punctures sparse medially, closer and finer lat- 
erally, the surface between them polished; scutellum rather 
sparsely punctate, polished, with some black pubescence, the 
pubescence whitish posteriorly; pleura with fine crowded punc- 
tures above, larger and more separated below, pubescence quite 
dense and white; propodeum rather coarsely tessellate, with 
numerous fine and indistinct punctures, basal triangle granular, 
pubescence long, thin and whitish; tegulse piceous, more red- 
dish medially and on anterior margin, with scattered minute 
punctures; wings fuliginous, darker apically, nervures piceous to 
black, basal nervure slightly beyond transverse median, the 
second recurrent nervure nearer the apex than the first is to the 
base of the second submarginal cell; legs black, white pubescent, 
reddish-yellow on tarsi beneath, the middle and hind metatarsi 
narrower than their tibiae, the front and middle tibiae with the 
longitudinal carina on the posterior apex strong and sinuate, the 
carinate apex deeply notched at the anterior end; spurs yellowish- 
ferruginous; claws red basally, piceous apically, with strong but 
short basal teeth. 
Abdomen rather ovoid, shining, finely and quite uniformly 
punctured, somewhat closer basally, the punctures throughout 
rather widely separated; pubescence black, conspicuous, longer 
apically, but segment 1 with entirely white pubescence which is 
dense at the sides; segments 2-5 with conspicuous entire white 
apical fasciae, narrow medially on segment 2, broad on the apical 
segments, the middle segments slightly depressed apically and 
basally ; segment 6 rather broad and short, distinctly concave at 
sides viewed from above, and very slightly concave in profile, but 
this largely obscured by the dense erect black pubescence which 
becomes subappressed and fuscous on the apex, the segment 
closely and finely punctured; scopa very pale yellow, black on 
segment 6, and almost entirely so on segment 5, and segments 3 
