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PARABATES DECEPTOR Morley. 



Parabatus deceplor Morley, Rev. Ichn. Brit. Mus., p. 2, 1913, p. 129, male. 

 Paniscus (Parabatus) latungula, subspecies deceptor, Bradley, Bull. Brooklyn. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 13, 1918, p. 105, female. 



Morley's original description based on a unique male from Nova 

 Scotia and including both key characters and those of the formal 

 description is very brief as follows: Stout; 13 mm.; antennae shorter 

 and stouter than in cristatus Thomson; scutellum not margined; 

 propodeal carina wanting, with apophyses obsolete; stigma broad, 

 llavescent; gastrocoeli deep. 



Bradley professed to recognize it in a female from Ithaca, New 

 York, and reduced Morley's species to subspecific rank under latungula 

 Thomson. 



I am unable to identify it among the species in the National Museum. 



PARABATES SMITHI, new species. 



Female. — Length 9 mm. 



Minutely shagreened, subopaque; temples sharply convexly nar- 

 rowed; face about as long as broad, medially elevated; clypeus short, 

 broadly concavely arcuate at apex; malar space obliterated; ocelli 

 very narrowly separated from eyes, ocell-ocular line two-thirds the 

 diameter of an ocellus; antennae slightly longer than body, very 

 slender, middle joints more than twice as long as thick. Thorax 

 minutely sparsely punctate, especially on mesoscutum and meso- 

 pleura; scutellum sharply margined to apex; postscutellum margined 

 but not transversely cristate; propodeum very finely and obscurely 

 transversely striate, apical carina indicated laterally by faint rounded 

 elevations; legs slender, apical joint of hind tarsus subequal to third; 

 areolet small, petiolate; nervellus broken at about upper third. 

 First tergite slightly more than three times as long as broad at apex, 

 second less than twice as long as broad at base; ovipositor short, 

 sheath narrow lanceolate, not extending above apical truncature of 

 abdomen. 



Pale testaceous, thorax nearly stramineous laterally; face, frons, 

 vertex, posterior orbits, and clypeus yellow; antennae concolorus; 

 hind tarsi stramineous; wings hyaline, venation pale. 



Male. — Like female except that ocelli touch the eyes, the abdo- 

 men is barely compressed at apex, and the apical joint of hind 

 tarsus is relatively shorter though still distinctly longer than the 

 fourth joint. 



Type-locality. — Coleta, Alabama. 



Type.— Cat. No. 26002, U.S.N.M. 



Described from the following specimens: All in the National Mu- 

 seum; the type and allotype taken by H. H. Smith; one female 

 from Coosa River, Chilton County, Alabama (H. H. Smith) ; one 



