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Figures 86-88. 



-Localities: 86 (left), Trachysphyrus vancouverensis; 87 (center), T. fascia- 

 tus; 88 (right), T. dims. 



Female: Fulvous. Flagellum dark brown, paling to fulvous bas- 

 ally, with an incomplete yellowish white band covering segments 5-8; 

 areas on prepectus, metasternum, and sutural areas at base of scutel- 

 lum and of propodeum and metapleurum, black; hind tibia brownish 

 apically; segments 2-4 of hind tarsus yellow; wings yellow, the front 

 wing with two brown bands as in figure 339, the apical part of hind 

 wing faintly brownish. 



Type: 9, in Sonoran desert, near Roosevelt Lake, Ariz., Apr. 21, 

 1947, H. and M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63776). 



Paratype: d^, Roosevelt Dam, Ariz., Oct. 30, 1924 (San Francisco). 



5. Trachysphyrus dims (Cresson) 



Figures 328, j; 378 



Cryptus dims Cresson, 1878, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 30, p. 359; 9. 

 Type: 9, California (Philadelphia). 



Front wing 8.5 to 10.5 mm. long; hairs of head, thorax, and coxae 

 moderately long; clypeus rather short and convex; cheek rather short; 

 pit on frons dorsolaterad of antenna! socket moderately deep; sides 

 of thorax strongly rugulose; front tarsus of female not distinctly 

 widened, as in figure 378; upper edge of hind tibia of female rather 

 sharp, its hairs sparse; ovipositor tip normal, as in figure 328,j. 



Hairs of head, thorax, and coxae dark brown or blackish; head, 

 thorax, and legs entirely deep black except that frontal orbit is 

 narrowly white at antennal socket and that rarely segments 3 and 4 of 

 male hind tarsus are more or less white; wings black; abdomen red, its 

 first segment black and second tergite of female often fuscous basally. 



Specimens (22 6^, 119): From Arizona (Grand Canyon at 7,000 ft.. 

 North Rim of Grand Canyon, Phoenix, and Santa Catalina Mts.); 



