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a median row of more or less bristle-like ones anteriorly. Metathorax 
exceedingly short. The thorax is brownish-yellow, the mesonotum 
with a greenish reflection that conceals the brown ; metathorax brown 
and mesoplenra with a green stripe. Abdomeij as long as the head and 
thorax, greenish-black, the venter brownish at the base. Posterior 
margins of all the segments entire, the basal segments smooth and 
shining, but the apical ones becoming very distinctly punctate. Venter 
smooth. Ovipositor pale yellow, distinctly longer than the abdomen. 
Legs brown, middle tibia;, posterior femora and tibiae and metatarsi 
greenish-piceoiTs ; posterior cox;^ green black. The posterior tibise are 
distinctly compressed, with a whitish line externally ; middle tarsi 
except the last joint and the hind tarsi, except the first and last joints, 
whitish. Wing's hj-aline, with a dark gray transverse band embracing 
the marginal and stigmal veins. Marginal vein as long as the sub- 
marginal and about four times as long as the short, very oblique and 
slightly knobbed stigmal. Postmarginal a little shorter than the 
stigmal. 
Described from one female from Esperanza Ranch, Browns- 
ville, Texas. 
This is a close relative of the following species. 
Anastatus longiceps sp. nov. 
Female. Length 4.25 mm. Ovipositor 1 mm. Rufo-ferruginous, 
abdomen black toward the tip. Head transverse, seen from above three 
times as wide as thick and distinctly longer than high. The eyes do 
not reach below the middle of the head so that the malar space is 
as long as the eye. Eyes widely separated above ; the lateral ocelli as 
far from the ej'e-margin as from the anterior ocellus. Eyes faintly 
hairy. Head microscopically rugulose, the front scarcely impressed. 
Antennae inserted considerably below the level of the lower eye-margin. 
Antennal scape reaching to the anterior ocellus, slender, rufous ; 
flagellum black, scarcely thickened apically. Pedicel and first fiagellar 
joint of equal length, the following joints shorter, the subapical ones, 
however, longer than wide. Malar furrow distinct. Palpi black 
toward the tip, the apical joint swollen and obliquely truncate at the 
apex. Mesonotum short, the furrows very distinct anteriorly, forming 
a wide median depression behind the middle. Parapsidal elevations 
sharp posteriorly, rising to the posterior third, then suddenly declivous 
and rounding off anteriorly. Scutellum with a wide base against the 
