1985] 
Kimsey — Neochrysis genera 
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F-IV 0.6 times; gena polished and impunctate for most of area 
between ocular margin and carina; pronotal anterior face with 
broad, polished and impunctate stripe, with lateral pronotal carina; 
dorsum of head and thorax strongly striate, punctures flattened and 
striatiform; mesopleuron relatively rounded ventrally, carina with- 
out teeth or lobes, punctures separated by 0.5- 1.0 puncture diame- 
ter; metanotum evenly rounded; propodeum flat and vertical in 
lateral view; R1 slightly shorter than stigma; S-II spots large and 
ovoid, barely separated medially; abdominal punctures flattened 
and oblong; T-III pit row only indicated by faint lateral depression, 
lateral margin slightly convex basally. Body bluish green, becoming 
purplish on T-III, T-III with large whitish transparent basolateral 
spot. 
Male. Unknown. 
Holotype female: VENEZUELA: Aragua, Ocumare de la Costa, 
12 June 1976, Menke and Vincent (Washington). Paratype female: 
COLOMBIA: Antioquia, Medellin, May 1982, I. D. Correa 
(DAVIS). 
Discussion. N. tysis can be distinguished from other Neochrysis 
by the impunctate stripe on the pronotum, striatiform dorsum and 
lack of a projection on the metanotum. This species most closely 
resembles paraensis based on the shape and coloration of T-III, the 
evenly rounded metanotum and the pronotal carina. 
Pleurochrysis Bohart 
Pleurocera Guerin 1842:355. Nec Rafinesque 1818. Type: Pleurocera viridis Guerin 
1842 ( =Chrysis bruchi Brethes 1903). 
Pleurochrysis Bohart 1966:144. N. name for Pleurocera Guerin 1842. 
Discussion. Pleurochrysis contains a relatively heterogeneous 
group of species characterized by their lack of derived characteris- 
tics. The two features diagnostic for Pleurochrysis are the presence 
of 2 pits on the anterior face of the pronotum (fig. 3), and the lack of 
an anterobasal pit on the hindfemur. Unfortunately, the presence of 
pronotal pits is not a characteristic unique to Pleurochrysis and rare 
individuals of Neochrysis may have these pits as well. Pleurochrysis 
may be paraphyletic but the species it contains are clearly related; 
further study is needed. 
Pleurochrysis species vary in a number of characteristics: The 
frontal carina is present or absent and may even enclose the mido- 
