1985] 
Porter & O’Neil — Genus Chromocry plus 
All 
broadly angulate, without a ramellus; nervulus antefurcal; upper 
part of nervellus 3.5 as long as lower. Propodeum: short, high, basal 
face gently arched and sloping rearward; apical face discrete, verti- 
cal, about as long as basal; spiracle 1.9 as long as wide; basal trans- 
carina sharp throughout; apical trans-carina irregular but traceable 
between cristae; cristae short ligulate, large and strongly projecting; 
median apical area irregularly suggested; median longitudinal cari- 
nae and lateral longitudinal carinae vague; surface shining, coarsely 
reticulately wrinkled, except with strong but finer puncto-reticulation 
basad of basal trans-carina. First gastric tergite: postpetiole 2.0 as 
wide apically as long from spiracle to apex; surface of petiole shin- 
ing, finely micro-reticulate on basal 0.7 and polished and nearly 
smooth on apical 0.3, with only a few small to medium sized, sparse 
punctures and scattered short setae which only laterally approach 
the length of their interspaces; flange laterally at base of petiole 
unusually low, narrow, and rounded in contour. Second gastric 
tergite: rather silky-shining with delicate micro-reticulation, except 
on the polished apex, and with abundant, medium sized, prominent 
but shallow punctures which are separated by 1-3X their diameters 
(densest laterad) and which show some areas of even wider separa- 
tion mesally and basally; punctures emitting short setae that mostly 
fall short of the length of their interspaces. Ovipositor: sheathed 
portion 0.36 as long as fore wing; straight, slender, compressed; 
nodus weakly defined with a broad but shallow notch; dorsal valve 
with a gentle, direct taper from notch to apex; ventral valve with 
fine oblique ridges on tip; tip 0.14 as high at notch as long from 
notch to apex. 
Male. Unknown. 
Type Material. Holotype ?: PERU, La Libertad Province, 
Simbal, 1 6-VII-l 982, C. Porter, T. O’Neill. Holotype in Florida 
State Collection of Arthropods. 
Relationships. This species belongs to the same radiation that 
includes the North and Middle American Chromocryptus as well as 
C. poecilma, C. huebrichi, C. prosopis, and C. tomsici from Brasil 
and Argentina. Its nearest relative and probable vicariant is the 
south Brasilian C. poecilma (Porter 1967: 210-11), which it 
approaches in mesoscutal and mesopleural sculpture, as well as in 
many details of coloration. C. teres differs from C. poecilma by 
having much sparser punctures on the 2nd gastric tergite and by 
