Related to the clarapex wied but distinguished by the ochraceous brown coloration, and the slender paired spots upon the abdomen. Female. Length 10 mm. Head: Cheeks light brown, face yel lowish-brown along the sides, blackish along the tubercle in the middle. Vertex blackish above, with a single median row of short, black hairs. Front brownish-black broadly throughout the middle; pale brown along the edges. Antennae brown, the third joint darker apically and dorsally and about half again as long as wide. Thorax: mesonotum dark brown, feebly shining including the lateral margin, the middle of the disc with a pair of conspicuous, light, yellowish brown pollinose vittae widely separated between which is a much more slender one running from anterior margin all the way to the scutellum. These vittae have brassy reflections. The post calli and the humeri are brown, the latter paler. Pleurae brownish black, the pro-, meso-, pteroand upper sternopleurae obscurely reddish brown, densely covered with silvery pubescence and with some scattered pale pile. The mesonotum itself is broadly covered with pale, whitish-brown pubescence and with very short, sparse black pile. Scutellum light, brownish-yellow, obscurely brown across the disc with short, sparse, stubby, black pile and blackish ventral fringe. Abdomen: considerably constricted basally, dark brown in color, including the first segment and marked very vaguely with diffuse spots as fol lows: a pair of submedial, rather small, light brown elongate spots well separated in the middle of the third segment; fourth segment with a pair of similarly placed and colored spots and the lateral anterior corners diffusely lighter brown. Fifth segment over twice as wide as long and a little shorter than the preceeding segment but with a similar arrangement of spots. Sixth segment rather long, flattened, ridged in the middle and though only half again as long as wide, the basal width is much narrower than that of the preceeding segment. This segment is apically pointed and laterally strongly compressed. Pile of the abdomen black except for a few long pale hairs at the extreme base of the first segment. Legs: front and mid dle tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, the last two tarsal joints barely dark er and a mere suggestion o? brownish, submedial annnlus on the tibiae. Anterior femora brown, middle pair darker, the hind pair quite dark brown, their pile brownish black. Hind tibiae, except extreme base, dark brown. Hind tarsi quite pale yellow, the extreme base of basi