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Porter & O’Neil — Genus Chromocryptus 
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9. Chromocryptus prosopis Porter, new species 
(Figs. 1, 10) 
Female. Color: scape and pedicel brownish black, a large white 
area below on scape; flagellum dark brown with a reddish tint and 
with a white band above on flagellomeres 6 (beyond base) to 1 1 
(slightly on base); head black with white as follows: on a broad 
orbital ring, which may be narrowly interrupted at bottom of eye or 
complete and below expanded so as to cover most of temple; on a 
large V-shaped median facial area (contiguous dorso-laterally with 
white orbital ring), on most of clypeus (contiguous above with the 
white facial blotch); and on basal 0.5 or more or mandible, as well as 
with more or less well developed light brown areas in anterior white 
orbital bands, light brownish on antennal sockets, on apical margin 
of clypeus, on part of mandible, and sometimes elsewhere; meso- 
soma dull red with extensive dusky to black staining, especially on 
pronotum and mesoscutum, as well as with white as follows: spot on 
apex of propleuron; broad band on anterior margin of pronotum, 
extending almost to apex; very broad band on all but median 0.3 of 
dorsal margin of pronotum; tegula; subalarum; basal 0.3-0. 6 of 
scutellum; most of upper metapleuron; small white area at apex of 
lower metapleuron; broad posterio-lateral bar on propodeum from 
crista to hind margin; gaster dull to bright red with some weak but 
extensive dusky staining and with white as follows: a broad apical 
band on 1st tergite, a narrower and somewhat fragmented apical 
band (broader laterad) on 2nd tergite, and 4th tergite with a very 
broad white apical band that ends abruptly laterad far from lower 
margin; fore and mid coxae and trochanters mostly white with some 
blackish and reddish areas; legs otherwise reddish, paler on fore 
legs, and with much dusky on tarsi, as well as with 3rd and (some- 
times) most of 4th hind tarsomeres white; wings hyaline with a 
vague brownish tint apicad. 
Length of fore wing: 5. 8-6.0 mm. First flagellomere: 5. 0-5. 6 as 
long as deep at apex. Malar space: 0.93- 1 .0 as long as basal width of 
mandible. Temple: 0.36-0.43 as long as eye in dorsal view; ante- 
riorly rounded-off and then very strongly receding. Mesoscutum: 
weakly to very weakly traceable for about 0.5 the length of mesoscu- 
tum; surface dully shining and uniformly with strong puncto- 
reticulation plus (especially medio-pocteriad) coarse reticulate wrink- 
ling. Mesopleuron: speculum swollen, mostly smooth and polished; 
