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Psyche 
[Vol. 94 
American Entomological Institute, Florida; GAINESVILLE-FS, 
Florida State Collection of Arthropods; GENOA, Natural History 
Mus., Italy; GRAHAMSTOWN, Albany Mus., South Africa; 
LUND, University Mus., Sweden; PRETORIA-NC, National Col- 
lection of Insects, South Africa; PRETORIA-TM, Transvaal Mus., 
South Africa; TERVUREN, Congo Mus., Belgium. 
Chrysis aspredinis Bohart, new species 
holotype male: Length 7 mm. Body rather robust, green, becom- 
ing blue and purplish blue, F-I green in front, wings lightly stained. 
Punctation coarse and close, a little finer on vertex and T-II-III but 
close. F-I 2.8X as long as broad; face unusually broad, scapal basin 
punctate in outer one-third, microridged and depressed in middle 
one-third; TFC distinct, biconvex (Fig. 1); malar space 1.5 MOD; 
subantennal space 1 MOD. Pronotum shorter than scutellum, 
median groove weak; metanotum rounded; mesopleuron edentate, 
episternal and scrobal sulci distinct, latter broad; propodeal projec- 
tion slender, sharp, incurved behind. Midline of T-II a little raised. 
T-III slightly saddled, a small median prepit depression, lateral 
margin concave except for a large rounded hump in basal one- 
fourth; pit row deep, pits distinct, 4 sharp but short distal teeth 
grouped inside lateral margins (Fig. 1); S-II spots large, nearly 
touching, occupying about one-half of sternum. 
female: About as in male. Length 8 mm; F-I 3.2X as long as 
broad, scapal basin with coarse lateral punctures. 
Male holotype, (PRETORIA-TM), SOUTH AFRICA: Cape 
Prov., van Rhynsdorp, VII-VIII-1927 (G. van Son). Paratype male, 
same data as holotype (DAVIS). 
discussion: The odd shape of the short T-III which is broad with 
distal teeth well inside the lateral margin (Fig. 1), the median prepit 
depression, basolateral hump, and unusually coarse punctation are 
features of the splendens group. Other species besides aspredinis are 
dentipleuralis (Brauns), munita Buysson, splendens Dahlbom, and 
vansoni (Brauns). From all of these, aspredinis differs by its unmod- 
ified metanotum, simpler TFC, absence of a delimited midocellar 
area, and larger S-II spots. 
