. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 48 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 11. Trieces integer, new species Figure 181,c Front wing to mm. long; face about as wide as high, its punctures of moderate size and strength, the interspaces about their diameter; face and clypeus in profile strongly convex; attach- ment of front tentorial arm visible as a dark, narrowly lanceolate area around the clypeal fovea; eye apparently without hairs; flagellum with about 31 segments in male and about 25 segments in female; median segments of female flagellum about as long as


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 48 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 11. Trieces integer, new species Figure 181,c Front wing to mm. long; face about as wide as high, its punctures of moderate size and strength, the interspaces about their diameter; face and clypeus in profile strongly convex; attach- ment of front tentorial arm visible as a dark, narrowly lanceolate area around the clypeal fovea; eye apparently without hairs; flagellum with about 31 segments in male and about 25 segments in female; median segments of female flagellum about as long as wide; front spur of middle tibia about as long as hind spur; second seg- ment of middle tarsus about as long as wide in male, about as long as wide in female; metapleurum without hairs except for usually a very few in its upper front corner and sometimes one to three scattered on its disc; wrinkles on metapleurum few, moderately strong, occupying the median part of its lower Male: Black. Face, lower lateral corner of frons, front part of cheek, clypeus, and mouth parts, pale yellow; antenna blackish brown, tinged with reddish brown below; tegula dark fulvous to dark brown, pale 3^ellow basally; front and middle coxae pale yellow, fulvous basally; front and middle trochanters pale yellow; apex of front and middle femora and base of front and middle tibia tinged with pale yellow; hind coxa black, ferruginous apically; hind tarsus infuscate brown; legs fulvous except as described otherwise. Female: Black. Face, front part of cheek, and clypeus fulvous; lower lateral corner of frons yellowish fulvous; mouth parts reddish brown; antenna reddish brown, darker above; tegula dark reddish brown; legs fulvoferruginous, the hind coxa more or less black except apically and the hind femur occasionally brownish. This species is rather close to the Mexican T. platysoma Townes, 1946, which differs in having the body a little more depressed, the. Figure 27.—Localities for


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