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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.98 
  

  

  anteriorly 
  ; 
  petiole 
  tinged 
  with 
  yellowish 
  and 
  postpetiole 
  with 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Venodio, 
  Sinaloa, 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  One 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  (No. 
  57077) 
  

   received 
  from 
  B. 
  Preston 
  Clark. 
  

  

  29. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  VARIEGATA 
  (Brnlle), 
  new 
  combination 
  

  

  Mesostenus 
  variegatus 
  BruixI!;, 
  Histoire 
  naturelle 
  des 
  insectes, 
  Hymenoptera, 
  

   vol. 
  4, 
  1846, 
  p. 
  277, 
  pi. 
  40, 
  fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Closely 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  two 
  preceding 
  species 
  and 
  differing 
  from 
  the 
  

   above 
  description 
  of 
  gracilis 
  only 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  Temple 
  flat, 
  hardly 
  half 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  short 
  diameter 
  of 
  eye; 
  clypeus 
  only 
  moderately 
  convex; 
  

   antenna 
  32-jointed, 
  distinctly 
  thickened 
  and 
  flattened 
  toward 
  apex, 
  

   the 
  joints 
  there 
  strongly 
  transverse; 
  scntellum 
  rather 
  broad 
  and 
  more 
  

   weakly 
  convex; 
  propodenm 
  without 
  defined 
  median 
  basal 
  area, 
  lateral 
  

   areas 
  largely 
  polished 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  rugose 
  only 
  laterally. 
  

   Abdomen 
  rather 
  broad, 
  postpetiole 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  second 
  tergite 
  

   more 
  than 
  a 
  half 
  broader 
  at 
  apex 
  than 
  at 
  base. 
  

  

  Clypeus 
  black 
  only 
  apically 
  and 
  laterally, 
  the 
  black 
  not 
  extending 
  

   upward 
  into 
  the 
  facial 
  impressions; 
  metapleuron 
  and 
  sternum 
  not 
  

   at 
  all 
  red; 
  annulus 
  on 
  flagellar 
  joints 
  (4) 
  5-10 
  (12) 
  ; 
  propodeal 
  mark- 
  

   ings 
  extending 
  triangularly 
  nearly 
  to 
  basal 
  carina. 
  

  

  One 
  female 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  taken 
  in 
  October 
  1922 
  by 
  

   H. 
  Lang 
  at 
  Kamakusa, 
  British 
  Guiana. 
  

  

  30. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  PARANENSIS, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  13 
  mm., 
  antennae 
  (tips 
  broken 
  off), 
  ovipositor 
  

   sheath 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Very 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  variegata^ 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  distinguishable 
  

   by 
  its 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  ovipositor 
  sheath 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  

   occipital 
  carina 
  diverges 
  more 
  strongly 
  below 
  from 
  the 
  posterior 
  

   margin 
  of 
  the 
  eye. 
  From 
  variegata 
  it 
  differs 
  further 
  as 
  follows: 
  

   Frontal 
  horns 
  on 
  a 
  common 
  base 
  ; 
  thorax 
  laterally 
  less 
  strongly 
  sculp- 
  

   tured, 
  the 
  striation 
  of 
  mesopleuron 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  anterior 
  

   portion, 
  the 
  punctation 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  portion 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  sternum 
  finer, 
  

   and 
  the 
  lower 
  anterior 
  portion 
  of 
  metapleuron 
  smooth 
  and 
  polished 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  yellow 
  only 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  in 
  basal 
  angles; 
  mesosternum 
  en- 
  

   tirely 
  black; 
  propodeal 
  markings 
  extending 
  only 
  very 
  sightly 
  for- 
  

   ward 
  from 
  apophyses 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  somewhat 
  more 
  slender. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Peixe 
  Boi, 
  Para, 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  One 
  female 
  in 
  the 
  IT. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  (No. 
  57078) 
  taken 
  

   November 
  27, 
  1907, 
  by 
  Miss 
  H. 
  B. 
  Merrill. 
  

  

  What 
  may 
  be 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  three 
  specimens 
  received 
  

   from 
  the 
  Paris 
  Museum 
  and 
  collected 
  by 
  Manger 
  in 
  Brazil. 
  The 
  labels 
  

   also 
  bear 
  the 
  figures 
  11-53. 
  In 
  these 
  specimens 
  the 
  propodeum 
  has 
  

   a 
  distinctly 
  defined 
  petiolar 
  area 
  from 
  the 
  anterior 
  end 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  

   apical 
  carina 
  extends 
  laterally 
  and 
  forward 
  to 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  