1985] 
Porter & O'Neil — Genus Chromocryptus 
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Specific Name. For the leguminous shrub, Prosopis, on which 
the host of this species feeds. 
10. Chromocryptus tomsici Porter, new species 
(Figs. 1, 12) 
Female. Color: scape dark reddish brown with a white area 
beneath, pedicel and flagellum brown to black with white above on 
flagellomeres 7-10 or sometimes onto base of 11; head black with 
white on a broad orbital ring that is briefly interrupted at bottom of 
eye, on a large, V-shaped median facial mark (in some specimens 
small and irregular), on most of clypeus, and on much of basal 0.5 
of mandible; mesosoma black with white as follows: a broad band 
(sometimes mesally narrowed) on all but apex of anterior margin of 
pronotum; a band on all but median 0.3 of dorsal margin of prono- 
tum; tegula on basal 0.6 or more; subalarum; basal 0.3 of scutellum; 
sometimes a tiny spot in lower hind corner of mesopleuron; most of 
Fig. 12. Chromocryptus tomsici, §. Holotype. Body in lateral view, showing 
habitus and color pattern. 
