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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  VOL 
  96 
  

  

  CHOETOSPILA 
  PRATER 
  (Girault), 
  new 
  combination 
  

  

  Spalangiomorpha 
  frater 
  GiRAULT, 
  Mem. 
  Queensland 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  334, 
  1913. 
  

  

  No 
  representative 
  of 
  this 
  Australian 
  species 
  is 
  available 
  for 
  

   study. 
  According 
  to 
  the 
  description 
  it 
  differs 
  from 
  elegans 
  prin- 
  

   cipally 
  by 
  having 
  the 
  first 
  funicular 
  joint 
  wider 
  than 
  long. 
  

  

  CHOETOSPILA 
  TABIDA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Plate 
  47, 
  Figures 
  2, 
  2a 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  similar 
  to 
  elegans 
  but 
  differs 
  by 
  having 
  

   distinctly 
  shorter 
  antennae, 
  by 
  being 
  entirely 
  wingless 
  in 
  both 
  

   sexes 
  (so 
  far 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  the 
  specimens 
  at 
  hand) 
  , 
  by 
  the 
  propo- 
  

   deum 
  being 
  smooth 
  and 
  polished, 
  by 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  

   not 
  extending 
  beyond 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  an- 
  

   tennal 
  club 
  being 
  unsegmented 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  1,6 
  mm. 
  Mostly 
  smooth 
  and 
  polished, 
  the 
  

   head 
  anteriorly, 
  below 
  level 
  of 
  insertion 
  of 
  antennae, 
  weakly 
  

   wrinkled, 
  and 
  the 
  mesopleura 
  reticulated. 
  

  

  Head 
  viewed 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  nearly 
  

   squarely 
  truncate 
  at 
  vertex 
  and 
  at 
  mouth, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  sides 
  

   practically 
  parallel; 
  compound 
  eyes 
  very 
  small, 
  subobsolete; 
  

   ocelli 
  represented 
  merely 
  by 
  minute 
  punctures 
  ; 
  antennae 
  inserted 
  

   low 
  down 
  at 
  approximately 
  the 
  lower 
  fifth 
  of 
  head, 
  separated 
  at 
  

   base 
  by 
  a 
  sharp 
  carina 
  ; 
  scrobes 
  short 
  and 
  shallow, 
  poorly 
  defined 
  ; 
  

   face 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  medially, 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  toothlike 
  projection 
  

   at 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  clypeus 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  rather 
  

   broad 
  and 
  stout. 
  Head 
  viewed 
  laterally 
  forming 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  

   ellipse, 
  approximately 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  

  

  Antenna 
  8-segmented, 
  strongly 
  clavate, 
  short, 
  its 
  total 
  length 
  

   only 
  slightly 
  greater 
  than 
  the 
  frontal 
  length 
  of 
  head 
  ; 
  scape 
  short, 
  

   slightly 
  thickened, 
  about 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  pedicel 
  

   about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  scape 
  and 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  funicle; 
  funicle 
  

   5-segmented, 
  the 
  segments 
  all 
  transverse 
  and 
  gradually 
  increasing 
  

   in 
  width 
  toward 
  club; 
  club 
  ovoid, 
  large, 
  very 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   entire 
  funicle, 
  approximately 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  and 
  appar- 
  

   ently 
  not 
  segmented. 
  

  

  Thorax 
  a 
  little 
  narrower 
  than 
  head, 
  approximately 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  broad; 
  prothorax 
  subconical, 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  sides, 
  more 
  than 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  mesoscutum; 
  parapsidal 
  grooves 
  complete, 
  very 
  

   oblique; 
  scutellum 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  mesoscutum, 
  nearly 
  circular; 
  meso- 
  

   pleuron 
  weakly 
  reticulated; 
  metapleuron 
  polished; 
  propodeum 
  

   slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  scutellum, 
  weakly 
  convex 
  dorsally, 
  without 
  

   grooves 
  or 
  carinae, 
  smooth 
  and 
  polished 
  except 
  for 
  some 
  very 
  

   faint 
  reticulation 
  basad 
  of 
  the 
  spiracles. 
  Wings 
  entirely 
  absent. 
  

  

  Legs 
  rather 
  stout, 
  the 
  middle 
  pair 
  obviously 
  somewhat 
  shorter 
  

  

  