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mesonotum sparsely punctulate ; scutellutn with fine central carina ; meta- 

 thorax distinctly areolated, the posterior face striated ; legs red, four 

 anterior coxse and trochanters yellow, posterior cox?e black, tipped with 

 yellow, trochanters yellow, spotted above with black, tips of posterior 

 tibia; and their tarsi brownish ; wings hyaline, a little dusky, stigma and 

 nervures dark, areolet rather large, pentagonal. Abdomen black, with 

 the incisures and lateral margins rufo-testaceous. 



Described from one ^ specimen from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor.) 



Sub-family Cryptin^. 



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Cryptus vancouverensis, n. sp. 



Female — Length, ir-15 mm. Black, with rufous abdomen and legs. 

 Head transverse, not much swollen behind the eyes, closely punctured, 

 inner orbits narrowly whitish; a rounded shining tubercle below the 

 antennae ; clypeus swollen, shining, touched with white in one specimen ; 

 palpi blackish ; antennae long and slender, black, the scape rufous 

 beneath. Thorax entirely black ; the pleurce and metathorax closely, 

 almost rugosely, punctured ; metathorax not distinctly areolated ; meso- 

 notum and scutellum shining, finely and sparsely punctulate ; wings 

 fuliginous with violaceous reflections; tegulte piceous; legs, including coxae 

 and trochanters, bright red ; terminal joint of tarsi piceous ; posterior 

 tibiae darker toward apex, the tarsi yellowish. Abdomen entirely red, 

 highly polished ; the ovipositor as long as abdomen without petiole, red, 

 the sheaths black. 



This handsome species is described from three $ specimens from 

 Victoria, V. I. (Taylor.) 



Cryptus victoriensis, n. sp. 



Female — Length, 7-9 mm. Black ; abdomen and legs mostly rufous. 

 Head subrugosely punctured beneath antennae, closely but more finely 

 above ; inner orbits and edge of clypeus narrowly white ; antennae long, 

 slender, black, with a short white line above on joints 9-1 1. Thorax 

 coarsely punctured, but somewhat shining, scutellum polished, with few 

 punctures ; metathorax rounded, with transverse carina, but not areolated ; 

 collar, tegulffi, scutellum and posterior angles of metathorax with minute 

 white dots ; legs rufous, including coxae, posterior tibiae and tarsi black, 

 the former with a pale annulus near the base, the latter with joints 2-4 

 white in one specimen, but partly black in the other ; wings almost 

 hyaline, areolet small, nearly quadrangular. Abdomen polished rufous ; 



