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the weak abdominal punctation. These characteristics will imme- 
diately distinguish gracile from cyanea Costa Lima. 
Duckeia vagabunda Kimsey, new species 
Holotype female. Body length 3.3 mm. Scapal basin long and 
densely cross-ridged; midocellus 2.5 MOD from ocular margin; 
malar space 4.3 MOD; subantennal distance 0.7 MOD; genal flange 
slightly shorter than eye height; occipital carina complete dorsally; 
facial punctures coarse and contiguous; F-I length 2.6X breadth, 
F-II 1.2X as long as broad; F-V length 0.9X breadth, pronotum 
0.9X as long as scutum, about as broad as head posteriorly; scutum 
with parapsides clearly indicated and notauli faint; mesopleuron 
with small, simple scrobal pit and impunctate stripe along posterior 
margin; metanotum 0.4X as long as scutellum; thoracic dorsum 
with coarse contiguous punctures, becoming only slightly smaller on 
scutellum and metanotum, metanotal punctures deeper; forewing 
with brown spot across stigma and RS; propodeal dorsal enclosures 
smooth and polished medially and evenly rugose along margins, 
posterior surface smooth with scattered punctures; abdominal punc- 
tures coarse, contiguous and subequal to thoracic punctures. Body 
bright metallic blue, except antenna, legs and tegular dark brown, 
becoming paler on tarsi. 
Male. Unknown. 
Holotype female— MEXICO (WASHINGTON) reared from 
phasmatid egg on leaf of Chamaeodora oblongata from quaran- 
tined material arriving on airplane in Memphis, Tennessee, 27 
March, 1962. Phasmatid egg probably that of Prisopus berosus 
Westwood according to label. Paratype female reared from phas- 
matid egg on palm leaf in quarantine material arriving in San Anto- 
nio, Texas, by airplane from Mexico. 
Discussion. Duckeia vagabunda most closely resembles cyanea, 
having a more robust body than gracile. It can be distinguished 
from gracile by the greater distance between the midocellus and eye, 
longer malar space and bright blue coloration. D. vagabunda differs 
from cyanea in having the eye encircled by a faint carina versus a 
pronounced one in cyanea, the female flagellomeres not lobulate 
and F-V not less than 0.9X breadth. The paratype female closely 
resembles the holotype except that the legs and scape are reddish. 
