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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  m 
  

  

  metapleuron 
  broadly 
  black 
  along 
  lower 
  and 
  anterior 
  margins; 
  pro- 
  

   podeal 
  markings 
  barely 
  including 
  apophyses; 
  front 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  

   yellow 
  with 
  femora 
  and 
  front 
  coxa 
  black 
  behind, 
  middle 
  coxa 
  ferru- 
  

   ginous 
  behind, 
  hind 
  leg 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  tibia 
  and 
  tarsus 
  and 
  a 
  small 
  

   spot 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  coxa 
  above 
  yellow, 
  femur 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  dark 
  streak 
  

   above; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  venation 
  brownish; 
  petiole 
  yellow, 
  postpetiole 
  

   piceous 
  with 
  apical 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Like 
  female 
  but 
  smaller 
  and 
  more 
  slender; 
  frontal 
  horns 
  

   longer 
  and 
  more 
  slender; 
  antenna 
  38- 
  join 
  ted; 
  propodeum 
  with 
  

   apophyses 
  short 
  and 
  thick, 
  apical 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  bent 
  abruptly 
  

   forward 
  medially; 
  abdomen 
  much 
  more 
  slender, 
  second 
  tergite 
  more 
  

   than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  at 
  base. 
  Annulus 
  on 
  flagellar 
  joints 
  

   (9)10-16(18) 
  ; 
  postpetiole 
  only 
  very 
  narrowly 
  yellow 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Trinidad 
  Rio, 
  Panama, 
  

  

  Types. 
  — 
  Two 
  of 
  each 
  sex, 
  a 
  holotype 
  female, 
  allotype 
  male, 
  and 
  a 
  

   male 
  and 
  a 
  female 
  paratype, 
  all 
  collected 
  at 
  the 
  above 
  locality 
  by 
  

   August 
  Busck, 
  March 
  17-30, 
  1912. 
  They 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  

   Museum 
  (No. 
  57076). 
  

  

  The 
  paratypes 
  are 
  somewhat 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  type 
  and 
  allotype. 
  

  

  27. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  GRACILIS, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  14 
  mm., 
  antenna 
  12 
  mm., 
  ovipositor 
  sheath 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Temples 
  very 
  weakly 
  convex, 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  short 
  diam- 
  

   eter 
  of 
  eye 
  ; 
  occipital 
  carina 
  moderately 
  high, 
  curving 
  slightly 
  inward 
  

   at 
  lower 
  extermity, 
  in 
  side 
  view 
  very 
  nearly 
  parallel 
  to 
  posterior 
  

   margin 
  of 
  eye 
  ; 
  vertex 
  straight 
  across 
  ; 
  f 
  rons 
  with 
  striae 
  radiating 
  from 
  

   ocelli, 
  horns 
  short 
  and 
  thick, 
  separated 
  ; 
  eyes 
  weakly 
  convergent 
  below 
  ; 
  

   face 
  polished, 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  transversely 
  striate 
  above 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  

   shallow 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  a 
  low 
  median 
  elevation; 
  clypeus 
  

   polished, 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  very 
  strongly 
  convex 
  ; 
  malar 
  space 
  nearly 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  basal 
  width 
  of 
  mandible; 
  cheek 
  distinctly 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  malar 
  space; 
  antenna 
  38-jointed, 
  slender, 
  barely 
  thickened 
  

   and 
  weakly 
  flattened 
  toward 
  apex, 
  the 
  joints 
  in 
  the 
  thickened 
  portion 
  

   fully 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  thick. 
  Thorax 
  distinctly 
  compressed 
  ; 
  humeral 
  margin 
  

   of 
  pronotum 
  transversely 
  striate 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  strong 
  carinate 
  angle 
  

   anteriorly, 
  scrobe 
  striate; 
  mesoscutum 
  coarsely 
  and 
  rather 
  densely 
  

   punctate, 
  scutellum 
  narrow; 
  mesopleuron 
  obliquely 
  striate 
  above, 
  

   finely 
  punctate 
  below; 
  sternum 
  finely 
  punctate; 
  upper 
  division 
  of 
  

   metapleuron 
  punctate, 
  lower 
  division 
  coarsely 
  obliquely 
  rugosostriate 
  ; 
  

   propodeum 
  with 
  median 
  basal 
  area 
  defined, 
  lateral 
  areas 
  largely 
  rugose 
  

   but 
  polished 
  and 
  punctate 
  in 
  middle; 
  area 
  behind 
  carina 
  irregularly 
  

   rugose, 
  posterior 
  face 
  coarsely 
  transversely 
  striate, 
  apophyses 
  long 
  

   and 
  slender 
  ; 
  legs 
  slender, 
  hind 
  femur 
  fully 
  six 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  deep, 
  

   and 
  fully 
  three-fourths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  tibia, 
  but 
  not 
  quite 
  reaching 
  apex 
  of 
  

   abdomen. 
  Abdomen 
  subopaque, 
  finely 
  shagreened 
  beyond 
  first 
  tergite, 
  

  

  