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cent. Ovipositor long exserted, as long as abdomen, the hypopy- 

 gidium small. 



Type, Neorhyssalus compositus sp. nov. 



Neorliyssalus compositus sp. nov. 



Black; head except interocellar area, and mesonotum except 

 lateral lobes, ferruginous; scape and funicle piceous; palpi, te- 

 gulse, venter, and coxae stramineous ; remainder of legs testaceous, 

 tibise and femora paler at base. Wings iridescent, faintly ob- 

 scured; veins, and stigma except at base, brov/nish. 



Female, length of body, 3.5 millimeters; of ovipositor, 1.5, 



Head viev^^ed from above with eye margins even with the gen- 

 eral outline, not at all bulging ; vertex caudad of eyes smooth and 

 shining, rapidly narrowed posteriorly; length of exposed cheek 

 margin subequal to length of vertex back of ocelli and a little 

 greater than width between lateral ocelli and eyes; ocelli small, 

 somewhat nearer to each other than to eyes ; interocellar distance 

 slightly greater than the diameter of an ocellus; depression be- 

 tween anterior ocellus and scrobes abrupt, deep, and nearly 

 smooth. Face subquadrate, medially subumbonate below an- 

 tennse and strongly depressed in the lower lateral areas next to 

 clypeus, surface nearly smooth, except for a few subobsolete punc- 

 tures ; mouth opening broad, transversely elliptical ; clypeus some- 

 what swollen, strongly convex. Head as viewed from side with 

 face not strongly bulging, malar space very short ; cheeks rather 

 narrow, the margin parallel with eye margin ; eye outline irreg- 

 ularly subelliptical, broadest at lower third, below which it is 

 rapidly narrowed. Third joint of maxillary palpus slightly 

 bent. 



Pronotum strongly sculptured and with a thin, shortly ex- 

 tended, anterior margin. Mesonotum evenly convex, notauli 

 strong but superficial, and the lateral lobes not raised; notauli 

 crenulate, converging very gradually and posteriorly flanking the 

 large flattened median area, the latter coarsely and very irreg- 

 ularly rugose. Scutellum anteriorly sexfoveate, four median 

 fovese long and narrow, two outer larger and rounded, all 

 separated by low, sharp carinse; posterior disk of scutellum 

 strongly convex, smooth, and shining; postscutellum medially 

 bifoveate. Metanotum fully areolated, the two large median 

 basal arese and four large lateral apical arese smooth within, 

 median area and midlateral area strongly reticulate-carinate ; 

 spiracles small and round; metapleura reticulate-rugose; upper 

 anterior area of mesopleura finely rugose, remainder of surface 



