Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 7. (Budapest 1956)

Szelényi, G.: Notes on the Merisina (Hym., Chalcidoidea)

Holotype : Hungary, Vác : Gajári-telep, 18. VI. 1924 (leg. Biró) Description made from a single female specimen. Differs from H. bicolor Erd. by the length of the thorax and by the color of the abdomen ; from Birói m. by the form of the pronotum ; from crassiceps Thorns, by the color of the abdomen. Homoporus brunneiventris sp. n. Female. Dark metallic blue, the thorax more green, propodeum and pleurae brighter blue, tegulae yellow, the legs with yellow tibiae and tarsi, the femora dark brown, with the distal half of the fore femora and distal third of the hind ones yellow ; antennae nearly black, the scape yellow with the distal third infuscated dorsally ; abdomen brown, with slight metallic tint at the base (violaceous) and at the tip (green). Head transverse, more than twice as wide as long (1 : 2,4), broader than the thorax (1 : 1,3) the whole head sharply reticulate, the meshes being longer at the inner orbits below the ocelli but more finer above the antennae where the front shows a slight impression ; clypeal area convergently striated ; ocelli in a low triangle, the hind ones more apart from the front ocellus than from each other, hardly more apart from the occipital border of the vertex than from the eye margin ; postocellar line but a little longer than the ocellocular line ; temples (seen from above) nearly half the width of the eyes ; cheeks only a little less than half the length of the eyes. Antennae inserted somewhat below the middle of the face, a little above the lower eye line ; scape cylindrical, nearly as long as pedicel, two ring joints and funicle 1—3 together ; pedicel subequal to the first funicle joint ; funicle 1—6 subequal, the first joint distinctly longer than wide, the 6

th almost transverse ; funicle very slightly narrowed distally, club a little narrower than the last funicle joint, shorter than the two preceding joints together, distinctly 3-segmented, the last joint minute and distinctly, although shortly, tapering. Thorax stout, less than one and a half times as long as broad (1 : 1,4) ; pronotum nearly half the length of the mesoscutum ; hardly rounded above, abruptly descending anteriorly, its sculpture showing here a sort of transverse striation. Mesoscutum a little broader than the pronotum, strongly transverse, sharply reticulate parapsidal sutures distinctly impressed anteriorly and effaced before reaching the middle ; scutellum about as broad as long, weakly convex, with the sculpture similar to that of the mesoscutum but more coarse ; propodeum short, fairly declivous, sharply and coarsely reticulate in the middle, this sculpture becoming more effaced at the lateral angles ; median carina and plicae wanting, spiracles elliptical, spiracular sulci not developed, neck present, more than half the length of the rest of the propodeum. Legs slender. Wings reaching the tip of the abdomen, with the slight indication of a dusky cloud below the marginal vein and between the basalis and stigmalis ; discal ciliae dusky, marginal ciliae shorter than a fourth the length of the stigmalis ; proximal third bare, basal vein indicated by a few bristles. Relative length of the subcostalis, marginális, stigmalis, postmarginalis as 3 : 1,5 : 1 : 1,7. Abdomen a little longer than the thorax, broadest shortly before the middle, strongly gleaming, without any sculpture ; first tergite the longest, about as long as the following two tergites combined, second tergite a little longer than