Reprinted from: Cresson, E.T., 1878. Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc.7:76.
Black or brown, and shining, elothed with short
pale pubescence, longer and more dense on sides of abdomen ; a line on an
terior orbits curved inwardly to clypeus, a dot on clypeus, collar, tubercles, a
dot on pleura, a bilunate line on scutellum, and the postacutellum, white;
antenna brown, ferruginous at base, third joint a little longer than fourth;
m eso thorax smooth, polished, impunctured; scutellum flat; pleura rather
coarsely punctured; mejtathorax with whitish pubescence at sides; tegula
ferruginous; wings subhyaline, costal margin broadly fuliginous; legs brown
or black, immaculate; abdomen finely punctured, clothed above with a abort
sericeous pile, base tinged with ferruginous, a narrow continuous whitish band
on segments one, two, and four, and a broader interrupted one on fifth segment;
venter immaculate. Length .35 inch.
Hab ?Mexico, (Sumichrast). One specimen. This resembles very
closely the tibiali$ Cress., from Cuba, but in that species the legs are
red and the wings are dusky only at tip ; in both species the meso?
thorax is polished and impunctured.
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