1973] 
Porter — A nacis 
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2. Anacis tucumana new species 
( fig. 0 
Holotype: female, ARGENTINA ( Tucuman : Horco Molle, 
Dto. Tafi, October 24, 1970, C. C. Porter). (Tucuman). Para- 
types: 4 females, ARGENTINA ( Jujuy : Post a de Lozano, Octo- 
ber 26, 1969, December 8, 1969, C. C. Porter; Tucuman: Horco 
Molle, Dto. Tafi, September 9-1 1 & September 30, 1969, C. C. 
Porter). (Gainesville, Porter, Tucuman) . 
Female: Color: flagellum pale reddish brown with slight dusky 
staining, especially above on first segment; pedicel largely blackish 
brown above and pale reddish brown to yellowish below; scape 
largely blackish brown above and grading through reddish brown 
into yellowish below; head black with some brown staining toward 
apex on mandibles, sometimes in malar space, often around clypeus 
above, often irregularly on face, and on antennal sockets, as well 
as with the following white: most of basal 1/2 of mandible; very 
large transverse blotch on clypeus; and a complete or sometimes 
ventrally interrupted orbital ring, which is broadest below where it 
extends 1/2 to 3/4 or more the distance into malar space; mesosoma 
bright reddish brown with black on areas of variable extent includ- 
ing most of prothorax (which at most is irregularly reddish stained), 
mesoscutum slightly to entirely, mesopleuron slightly to on as much 
as dorsal 1/3 plus most of prepectus, many margins and sutures 
more or less broadly, as well as with the following white: broad 
anterior margin of pronotum except toward apex ; broad dorsal mar- 
gin of pronotum except for about median 1/4-1/3; tegula; most of 
subalarum; sometimes large spot toward lower anterior corner of 
mesopleuron; small area in upper hind corner of mesopleuron on 
mesepimeron; most of apical 3/4-778 of scutellum; and sometimes 
most of postscutellum ; gaster bright reddish brown with a prominent 
to dull and little contrasting white apical band on tergites 1 or 2- 
8 ; fore-leg with coxa mostly white with a conspicuous dorso-apical 
brown blotch and some brown staining postero-basally ; trochanter 
white with a large pale brown blotch dorsally; trochantellus white 
with dusky to black staining on apex and above; femur bright red- 
dish brown grading into whitish below and with a little dusky to 
black staining on base; and tibia and tarsus somewhat duller brown 
with some faint dusky staining and with fifth tarsomere mostly 
dusky to blackish; mid-leg with coxa pale reddish brown with a 
large, pale to dark brown dorso-apical blotch and sometimes a less 
well defined ventral brownish area basad, as well as with white on 
