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receding. Fore-tibia: moderately stout but scarcely swollen. Pro- 
notum: dorsal margin a little swollen, especially anteriad, and with- 
out a submarginal groove; epomia sharp in scrobe but only faintly 
prolonged below; anterior margin not angled at mid-height below. 
Mesoscutum: notauli traceable about 1/2-2/3 the length of meso- 
scutum, well defined but not very sharp anteriad and becoming much 
weaker behind ; surface mat and finely granular with abundant, 
small, faint, subadjacent to confluent punctures and an area of con- 
trastingly coarser puncto- reticulation apicad between and beyond 
notauli. Mesopleuron: subalarum not unusually swollen or expanded; 
speculum swollen, mostly smooth and polished; surface otherwise 
more or less strongly shining with fine but moderately strong, rather 
uniform, obliquely longitudinal wrinkling, which becomes only slight- 
ly more irregular on lower 1/2, and with medium-sized, variably 
distinct intercalated punctures which are best defined on lower 1/2. 
Wing venation: radial cell 2. 8-3. 2 as long as broad; areolet large 
and broad, intercubiti strongly convergent above, 2nd abscissa of 
radius 0.6-0.7 as long as 1st intercubitus; 2nd recurrent vertical, at 
most weakly outcurved on upper 1/2; disco-cubitus broadly angled 
or simply arched, without or rarely with a vestige of a ramellus; 
nervulus at least slightly antefurcal ; mediella strongly arched ; axil- 
lus close to hind-margin of wing. Propodeum: moderately short and 
high in profile, basal face gently arched and sloping rearward to join 
the much more steeply declivous but not sharply discrete, subequal 
apical face ; spiracle round ; basal trans-carina sharp throughout, 
weakly to moderately bowed forward medially, rather far from base 
of propodeum; apical trans-carina more or less traceable throughout, 
but becoming a little to, often, very weak and irregular on its broad- 
ly bowed forward median portion, laterally well defined, forming 
very low, sub-crescentic cristae and continuing ventrad to pleural 
Carina; areola not defined; without lateral longitudinal carinae; 
surface basad of basal trans-carina shining with considerable fine 
wrinkling, especially mesad, and abundant, rather large, shallow, 
subadjacent or sparser to confluent punctures but distad of basal 
trans-carina uniformly mat with stronger, granularly reticulate 
wrinkling and puncto-reticulation. 1 st gastric segment: with a low 
and weakly crescentic lateral flange at base; petiole moderately 
broad and flat; postpetiole strongly expanded and 1.3-1.4 as wide 
apically as long from spiracle to apex; ventro-lateral carina sharp on 
postpetiole and about apical 1/2 of petiole but sometimes more or 
less fading out toward base on petiole, or continuing sharp to base; 
dorso-lateral carina fine and sharp for a short distance near spiracle 
