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Nervellus of the hind wing curved outwards on the vannal lobe side (Text-fig. 289). 

 Gaster in large part red ; fully basal half of tergite 1 red and the remaining seg- 

 ments red except a brown transverse mark on each of them ; hind coxa very large, 

 red, more than half as long as the gaster ; segment 17 of the antenna abruptly 

 shorter than 16, about one and one third times longer than wide ; propodeum rather 

 coarsely rugose with a poorly defined, elongate medial furrow ; ovipositor sheath 

 about one and two thirds as long as the hind tibia ; median field of tergite (2 + 3), 

 (Text-fig. 238) ; 1st abscissa of the discoideus as long as the 2nd munda Muesebeck 44 



Honduras: type locality. Mexico: Pichon, 1 $, labelled "paratype, Promicro- 

 gaster munda Mues.", (/?. & K. Dreisbach), Morelos, 1 ?, (Koebel), in British Museum 

 (Nat. Hist.). Type in the U.S. National Museum. 



Nervellus of the hind wing not thus curved outwards on the vannal lobe side . . 5 



Tergite 1 more or less yellow except for faint apical infuscation. 



Gaster bright yellow with a dark patch on each tergite ; hind coxa yellow ; pro- 

 podeum smooth, polished on each side of middle ; tergite 1 polished except for 

 weak traces of rugosity posteriorly ; face with satin-like sheen but virtually 

 impunctate ; inner spur of the hind tibia almost half as long as the hind basitarsus ; 

 1st abscissa of the discoideus as long as the 2nd ; wings (Text-fig. 286) ; flagellum 

 less slender than in spilopterus and erigone, its pubescence upstanding and fairly 

 conspicuous ; segment 17 twice as long as wide ; posterior ocelli close together, the 

 distance between them equal to the diameter of the anterior ocellus ; ovipositor 

 sheath twice as long as the hind tibia. In a facial view, the head is markedly tri- 

 angular and, seen from above, not so transverse as in polyporicola . carus sp. n. 



Brazil: Bahia, 1930, 2 $$, one the TYPE, 1 $, Bondar. Type in the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Tergite 1 blackened and rugose all over ........ 6 



Vannal lobe beyond its widest part very distinctly concave and here without trace 

 of a hair-fringe or projecting hairs. 



Hind coxa obscurely yellow but darkened at base ; face distinctly, clearly 

 punctate ; propodeum strongly rugose almost all over ; tergite (2 + 3) transverse, 

 with its basal field very strongly transverse and its lateral corners narrowed to a 

 fine point (Text-fig. 239) .......... 7 



Vannal lobe not at all concave beyond its widest part and here with occasional pro- 

 jecting hairs ; median field of tergite (2 + 3) less narrowed laterally (Text-fig. 237). 



Hind coxa entirely bright yellow ........ 8 



Tergite 1 short, only slightly longer than its basal width and hardly narrowed behind 

 (Text-fig. 239) ; temples shiny and with only an obsolescent punctation ; areolet so 

 small as to be almost absent ; segment 17 of the antenna about one and one third 

 times longer than wide ; postero-lateral corner of mesoscutum showing as a pale 

 reddish, rounded boss ; gaster short with tergites 4-6 narrowly margined with 

 white ; ovipositor with a less conspicuous apical sinuation than in the next species 



polyporicola Muesebeck 45 

 Barro Colorado Is., Canal Zone. Type in U.S. National Museum 



Tergite 1 longer, more distinctly narrowed behind ; temples dull, rather strongly 

 rugose-punctate ; areolet slightly more distinct ; segment 17 of the antenna about 

 one and two thirds times longer than wide ; postero-lateral corner of the mesos- 

 cutum hardly developed and not paler than the rest of the mesoscutum ; gaster 

 longer, the tergites without white apical margins ; apical sinuation of the ovipositor 

 more conspicuous (Text-fig. 292). 



Mesoscutum less shiny than in polyporicola, the punctures closer and distinctly 

 more crowded along the imaginary course of the notaulices. Ovipositor sheath fully 



^Promicrogaster munda Muesebeck, 1958 : 422 

 i& Promicrogaster polyporicola Muesebeck, 1958 : 423. 



