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Neochrysis bubba Kimsey, new species 
(Fig. 5) 
Holotype female. Body length 10 mm. Scapal basin shallow with 
narrow impunctate and polished medial stripe, laterally with dense 
small punctures and silver pubescence; no frontal carina; malar 
space 0.6 MOD long; LID 0.7 times eye width; subantennal distance 
0.7 MOD long; F-I 2.4 times as long as wide; F-II 1.1 times; F-III 
0.8 times; F-V 0.7 times as long as wide; gena between ocular margin 
and carina polished and impunctate; mesopleuron rounded ven- 
trally, carina without posterior teeth or lobes, punctures 0.5-1 punc- 
ture diameter apart with tiny punctures between; metanotum evenly 
rounded; propodeum flat and vertical in lateral view; costal length 
beyond stigma subequal to stigmal length; S-II spots large and 
ovoid, barely separated medially; T-I punctures larger than those on 
scutum and T-II, which are subequal; T-III lateral margin slightly 
convex, pit row faintly depressed laterally with small deep pits 
about as large as adjacent punctures, without transparent basolat- 
eral spot or edge. Body bluish green ventrally becoming bluer later- 
ally and darker dorsally, blackish dorsomedially. 
Male. Unknown. 
Holotype female: BRAZIL: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, Feb- 
ruary 1974, F. Plaumann (davis). Paratypes, one male, one female: 
BRAZIL: Parana, Curitiba, 19 January 1968, A. Sakakibara (one 
male); BRAZIL: Parana, Piraquara, 13 January 1968, Moure and 
Laroca (one female). 
Discussion. The most distinctive feature of bubba is the large 
spots on S-II, which serves to immediately distinguish this species 
from the two it most closely resembles, lecointei and montezuma. N. 
bubba can be distinguished from other Neochrysis species by having 
no frontal carina, either transverse or vertical; no white spots on 
T-III, and an evenly rounded metanotum. 
Neochrysis tysis Kimsey, new species 
Holotype female. Body length 7 mm. Scapal basin shallow with 
narrow impunctate and polished medial stripe, laterally with dense 
small punctures and silver pubescence; no frontal carina; malar space 
0.4 MOD Long; LID 1.1 times eye width; subantennal distance 0.6 
MOD long; F-I 1.4 times as long as wide; F-II and III 1.1 times; 
