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Anoglyphis transdanuviana Erdos (1946 : 158-160, $ <$) cannot belong to that 

 genus but is perhaps a Seladerma. From the description it might be near sabbas 

 (Walker). Types (not seen) in coll. Erdos (Tompa, Hungary). Delucchi, however, 

 suggested (1955 : 60) that transdanuviana might belong to his genus Thektogaster. 



Seladerma caledonicum sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 156-159) 



$. Body blue-green ; hind margins of the gastral segments sometimes narrowly tinged with 

 dull bronze. Mandibles chestnut-brown, their base, teeth, and transverse ridge fuscous. 

 Antennae black ; scape with a distinct blue-green metallic gloss, pedicellus weakly metallic. 

 Coxae, and femora except their tips, concolorous with the body ; trochanters partly fuscous, 

 partly reddish ; tips of femora, tibiae more or less, and bases of mid and hind tarsi, reddish 

 testaceous (the fore tibiae have a fuscous stripe externally) ; the mid and hind tibiae may have 

 only their tips blackish, though often there is also a subbasal infuscate ring, or the tibiae may 

 be dark with only their bases and apices pale ; usually only the first segment of the mid and 

 hind tarsi is more or less pale, while the remaining segments become progressively darker. 

 Tegulae blackish with a metallic tinge. Wings slightly greyish ; venation fuscous. Length 

 i-8 to 2-4 mm. 



Head about 1 -2 times the breadth of the mesoscutum, in dorsal view 2 to 2-05 times as broad 

 as long ; temples rounded off and hardly one-third as long as the eyes ; POL 1 -4 to 1 -5 OOL. 

 Eyes about 1-35 times as long as broad, separated by 1-3 to 1-35 times their length. Malar 

 space slightly more than one third the length of an eye. Breadth of oral fossa about 2-5 times 

 the malar space. Clypeus weakly alutaceous, its anterior margin with three strong teeth placed 

 asymmetrically. Mandibles not large, their lower margin weakly sinuate, without a lobe at 

 the base. Hypostomal carinae normal, i.e., the distance separating the outermost part of their 

 curvature less than one third the breadth of the head. Antennae (Text-fig. 157) with scape 

 about 3-5 times as long as broad, its length slightly less than the transverse diameter of an eye, 

 hardly reaching the level of the median ocellus ; combined length of pedicellus and flagellum 

 about 1-25 times the breadth of the head ; pedicellus (in profile) i-6 to 1-7 times as long as 

 broad, approximately equal in length to the first funicular segment ; funicle fairly stout, 

 proximally slightly stouter than the pedicellus in profile, thickening slightly distad, its first and 

 second, sometimes also third, segments a little longer than broad, the fourth and fifth about 

 quadrate, sixth tending to be slightly transverse ; clava 2-1 to 2-3 times as long as broad, its 

 length equal to about two and a half of the preceding funicular segments, with a patch of 

 micropilosity on its last segment only ; sensilla of flagellum fairly numerous in large specimens, 

 less so in small ones. 



Thorax fairly elongate (length : breadth 1-7-1-8 : 1), rather strongly arched dorsally, the 

 dorsellum and propodeum sloping at an angle of 45 to 55 relative to the tangential plane to 

 the mesoscutum and scutellum. Mesoscutum i-6 to 1-7 times as broad as long, its mid lobe 

 moderately convex. Scutellum almost as long as the mesoscutum, distinctly longer than 

 broad, strongly convex ; frenum with uniform, delicately reticulate sculpture like that of the 

 rest of the scutellum, and marked off by a fine weak impressed line. Dorsellum slightly shorter 

 than the scutellar frenum, shiny, weakly alutaceous. Propodeum medially slightly more than 

 half as long as the scutellum, its median part hardly produced backwards, only a little behind 

 the level of the hinder edge of the supracoxal flanges, which are rather narrow ; surface between 

 the spiracles moderately finely, irregularly reticulate, the sculpture slightly raised ; median carina 

 complete and strong, usually slightly broken just before its middle by a short transverse crest. 

 Legs neither unusually short nor stout ; hind coxae strongly though finely reticulate externally, 

 their dorsal surface with a few hairs ; spur of mid tibia slightly more than half as long as the 

 first tarsal segment, the length of the spur distinctly greater than the apical breadth of the tibia. 



