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1), illustrate the mandible (Fig. 2), and illustrate key taxonomic characters 
of the fore wing (Fig. 3). 
The original description is generally accurate. In addition to the characters 
given in the key, the following characters may prove helpful in the identi¬ 
fication of this species. 
Pronotum, when viewed from dorsal aspect, short; posterior margin mod¬ 
erately concave; surface with rather bold, raised reticulate sculpture; meso- 
scutum about 1.8 times wider than long, broadly and convexly rounded from 
side to side, surface with sculpture as pronotum; axillae just meeting me¬ 
dially, with raised reticulate sculpture less pronounced; scutellum about as 
long as medial length of mesoscutum, robust, convexly rounded from side 
to side, surface, deeply, narrowly, convexly rounded, and extending to pro- 
podeum. Propodeal characters obscured by hindwing glued over metasomal 
terga. 
Metasoma somewhat lanceolate, about as long as mesosoma; paratergite 
apparently absent; gonostylus slightly exserted. 
U.S.N.M. Type number 2723. 
Acknowledgments 
This report stems from a binational scientific exchange agreement. We 
thank the National Academy of Science (U.S.A.) and Soviet Academy of 
Sciences (U.S.S.R.) for making our collaborative research efforts possible. 
Gordon Gordh would like to thank the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 
a leave of absence so that this work could be performed and the Zoological 
Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Leningrad) for generously pro¬ 
viding space and facilities used during the tenure of our studies. 
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