Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull reddish-testaceous.
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Black; the face silvery; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded and narrowly smooth and shining; tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the mandibles elongate and pale rufo-testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Pale rufo-testaceous; the head heart-shaped; the eyes black, the flagellum fusco-ferruginous with the basal joints pale; the mandibles ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured; a spot between the antennæ, the scape in front, and the clypeus yellow; the latter with a large black spot at its base, anteriorly deeply emarginate; wings fuscous; the tegulæ with a rufo-testaceous spot at their outer margins; the tarsi and articulations of the legs ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black: the two basal joints of the flagellum, the apical margin of the clypeus, the labrum, mandibles, and legs ferruginous; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the tegulæ more or less rufo-testaceous; the sides of the metathorax with tufts of pale fulvous pubescence and the floccus on the posterior femora of the same colour, the tibiæ and tarsi with short ferruginous pubescence.
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Thorax: the anterior and intermediate legs rufo-testaceous, the femora having a darker stain above; the posterior legs black, with the base of the tibiæ and the tarsi white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black; the head, thorax, and nodes of the petiole roughened; the mandibles, flagellum and tarsi rufo-testaceous; the lateral angles of the prothorax acute, the sides narrowed slightly to the base of the metathorax, the spines on the latter acute; nodes of the petiole globose.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Abdomen rufo-testaceous beneath; the ovipositor white at its apex.
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Thorax elongate, compressed behind, the coxæ pale rufo-testaceous.
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Head and thorax rugose; the antennæ and tarsi rufo-testaceous; the eyes rather prominent, the groove above them at the sides of the head extending backwards to the vertex.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head and thorax black; the anterior margin of the clypeus angular and narrowly rufo-testaceous; the mandibles, palpi, and antennæ ferruginous; the scape, and flagellum above, except the basal joint, fuscous; the outer orbits of the eyes with a narrow yellow line.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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