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ridged without anterior transverse carina; notauli indicated by cari- 
nae; admedian lines absent; scutellum with deep prescutellar sulcus; 
metanotum simple; postspiracular carina well developed; omalus 
well-developed, continuous with acetabular carina; verticaulus 
short, ending in a ventral depression; hypersternaulus and meso- 
sternaulus absent; forewing recurrent vein joining submarginal cell 
almost medially; jugal lobe subequal in length to submedial cell; legs 
simple; propodeum finely sculptured, dorsal enclosure limited by 
foveate sulcus, lateral propodeal carina present. 
Abdomen: Sessile; female pygidium forming a sharp, straight 
medial ridge, with deep submedial notch, terminating in a sharp 
process, surrounded by stout setae (figs. 7-9). 
Generotype: Parataruma leclercqi Kimsey, original designation. 
Discussion. 
Parataruma most closely resembles Foxita and Taruma, based on 
the carinate scapal basin, wing venation, narrow female pygidium, 
apically notched mandible and absence of the sternaulus. In fact, 
this genus will key out to Taruma in Bohart and Menke (1976:374). 
However, several characteristics of Parataruma are unusual and 
immediately distinguish members of this genus from all other crabro- 
nines, including Foxita and Taruma. These characteristics are the 
well-developed genal and scapal carinae, the lack of any transverse 
carinae on the face and the peculiar female pygidium, which has 
been reduced to a narrow convex ridge and pointed apical projec- 
tion surrounded by papillae-like setae. 
Parataruma leclercqi Kimsey, new species 
Figures 1-3, 5-8 
Holotype female: Length 5 mm; head finely and densely punctate, 
except along occipital and genal carinae; face with bulging brow, 
scapal basin punctation obscured by pubescence; clypeal margin 
medially produced into a rounded lobe subtended beneath by a tuft 
of setae on either side; flagellomeres I— II 1.3 times as long as wide; 
flagellomere III as long as wide; flagellomeres IV-IX wider than 
long; flagellomere X 1.5 times as long as wide; mandible with tooth 
on inner margin longer than diameter of antennal socket (fig. 3); 
pronotum foveate along anterior and posterior carinae; scutum 
finely punctate-striate with medial and lateral carinae and raised 
