NEW PRAESTOCHRYSIS AND NOTES ON DESCRIBED 
SPECIES FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION 
(HYMENOPTERA, CHRYSIDIDAE)* 
By R. M. Bohart, Department of Entomology 
University of California, Davis, CA 95616 
The genus Praestochrysis Linsenmaier is distinguished by having 
5 distinct teeth on tergum III and a rather stout antenna. In any case 
the latter has flagellomere I less than 3 times as long as broad. 
Bohart (1986, Insecta Mundi 1:148-154) gave a key to species of the 
Ethiopian Region. One additional species, lamborni, is here des- 
cribed from that region. It keys out to couplet 6 in the 1986 paper 
but differs in having no transverse frontal carina. 
Abbreviations used in the following descriptions are: F-I, etc., 
flagellomeres; TFC, transverse frontal carina; MOD, median ocel- 
lus diameter; T-I, etc., terga; S-II, sternum. 
Praestochrysis lamborni Bohart, new species 
Male holotype: Length 7.5 mm. Body moderately stout, green, 
midscutum mostly purple, F-I-II green in front, wings weakly 
stained. Punctures moderately small and close. Head 1.25X as 
broad as long (fig. 2a); F-I 1.7X as long as broad (fig. 2d), F-II as 
broad as long, F-V twice as broad as long; scapal basin short and 
broad, polished above and in middle one-third below, rest punctate, 
frons 1.8X as broad at malar space as at its least width; TFC absent, 
midocellus lidded, malar and subantennal spaces each about 1 
MOD; pronotum about as long as scutellum, median groove weak; 
metanotum rounded (fig. 2c); mesopleuron edentate, scrobal and 
episternal sulci distinct; propodeal projection sharp, incurved 
behind; T-II without midcarina; T-III evenly convex before weakly 
developed pit row, lateral margin a little convex, 5 short, sharp 
distal teeth (fig. 2b); S-II spots small, triangular, nearly touching 
(fig. 2e). 
Female. About as in male. T-III lateral margin slightly angled 
out, submedian teeth twice as long as others (fig. 2b). 
* Manuscript received by the editor March 3 , 1987. 
