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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  9» 
  

  

  9. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  CONICA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Similar 
  to 
  politigaster 
  but 
  distinguishable 
  at 
  once 
  by 
  its 
  much 
  more 
  

   strongly 
  flexed 
  occipital 
  carina 
  and 
  by 
  its 
  entirely 
  red 
  femora 
  and 
  

   hind 
  coxae. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  12 
  mm., 
  antennae 
  (tips 
  broken 
  off), 
  ovipositor 
  

   sheath 
  3.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Temples 
  rather 
  long, 
  slightly 
  concave, 
  and 
  sharply 
  receding; 
  occi- 
  

   pital 
  carina 
  high, 
  especially 
  below, 
  where 
  it 
  passes 
  over 
  a 
  strong 
  angu- 
  

   lation 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  cheek; 
  vertex 
  concave, 
  ocelli 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  below 
  superior 
  tangent 
  of 
  eyes; 
  frons 
  moderately 
  concave, 
  

   with 
  rugae 
  radiating 
  from 
  ocelli, 
  horns 
  small 
  but 
  elevated 
  on 
  a 
  broad 
  

   common 
  base 
  ; 
  eyes 
  bulging, 
  very 
  weakly 
  convergent 
  below 
  ; 
  face 
  with 
  

   a 
  shallow 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  middle, 
  medially 
  coarsely 
  rugose, 
  

   laterally 
  smooth; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  scattered 
  coarse 
  punctures, 
  in 
  profile 
  

   subnasute; 
  malar 
  space 
  fully 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  basal 
  width 
  of 
  mandible, 
  flat; 
  

   antennae 
  distinctly 
  thickened 
  and 
  flattened 
  beyond 
  middle. 
  Thorax 
  

   stout, 
  largely 
  coarsely 
  sculptured; 
  pronotum 
  with 
  humeral 
  margin 
  

   transversely 
  striate, 
  conically 
  produced 
  anteriorly, 
  scrobe 
  coarsely 
  

   striate; 
  mesoscutum 
  coarsely 
  but 
  not 
  densely 
  punctate, 
  lobes, 
  espe- 
  

   cially 
  prescutum 
  anteriorly, 
  flattened 
  ; 
  mesopleuron 
  striate, 
  the 
  sculp- 
  

   ture 
  changing 
  to 
  punctation 
  toward 
  lower 
  posterior 
  angle, 
  sternum 
  

   polished 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  scutellum 
  roundly 
  sloping 
  from 
  base 
  

   to 
  apex, 
  polished, 
  with 
  sparse 
  punctures, 
  frena 
  foveolate; 
  metapleu- 
  

   ron 
  obliquely 
  punctatostriate, 
  its 
  upper 
  division 
  smooth 
  and 
  sparsely 
  

   punctate; 
  propodeum 
  polished 
  before 
  carina, 
  coarsely 
  rugose 
  behind, 
  

   the 
  rugosity 
  becoming 
  transverse 
  on 
  apical 
  slope, 
  basal 
  median 
  area 
  

   defined, 
  basal 
  carina 
  curved 
  forward 
  medially; 
  legs 
  rather 
  slender 
  

   but 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  hind 
  femur 
  barely 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  tibia 
  and 
  

   not 
  reaching 
  apex 
  of 
  abdomen, 
  hind 
  coxa 
  polished, 
  with 
  sparse 
  punc- 
  

   tures; 
  areolet 
  narrow. 
  Abdomen 
  rather 
  narrow, 
  polished; 
  petiole 
  

   flat 
  above 
  but 
  not 
  depressed, 
  postpetiole 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  with 
  

   no 
  trace 
  of 
  dorsal 
  carinae; 
  second 
  tergite 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  first 
  and 
  

   about 
  a 
  half 
  longer 
  than 
  wide 
  at 
  base 
  ; 
  sheath 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  beyond 
  first 
  tergite; 
  ovipositor 
  slender, 
  of 
  uniform 
  depth, 
  and 
  

   subsagittate 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  black 
  with 
  yellow 
  markings 
  (see 
  description 
  of 
  

   color 
  pattern, 
  p. 
  141) 
  ; 
  orbital 
  ring 
  broadly 
  interrupted 
  on 
  temples; 
  

   annulus 
  on 
  flagellar 
  joints 
  (5)6-10(13) 
  ; 
  anterior 
  margins 
  of 
  prono- 
  

   tum 
  entirely 
  and 
  humeral 
  margin 
  posteriorly 
  black; 
  mesoscutum 
  im- 
  

   maculate 
  ; 
  apex 
  of 
  tegulae 
  piceous 
  ; 
  mesosternum 
  immaculate 
  ; 
  yellow 
  

   marking 
  of 
  lower 
  division 
  of 
  metapleuron 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  streak 
  in 
  the 
  

   dorsoposterior 
  half; 
  propodeal 
  markings 
  extending 
  from 
  apex 
  to 
  

   basal 
  carina 
  and 
  narrowing 
  and 
  divergent 
  from 
  apophyses 
  to 
  carina. 
  

   Legs 
  ferruginous, 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  and 
  front 
  and 
  middle 
  coxae 
  ante- 
  

  

  