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Mason Co., Mount Adams, Mount Rainier at 5,500 ft., Paradise Park 

 on Mount Rainier, and "Sawmill Flat in Rainier National Forest"); 

 and Wyoming (Casper, Centennial, Jackson at 6,000 ft.. Lake Camp 

 in Yellowstone Park, Laramie, Mammoth Hot Spring and Old Faithful 

 in Yellowstone Park, Shoshone Canyon at 6,500 ft., and West Thumb 

 in Yellowstone Park). 



Collection dates are mostly from June 6 to August 20. Those 

 outside of this range are: May 20 in Cienega Canyon, near Albuquer- 

 que, N. Mex. ; May 31 at Robson, B.C. ; June 2 at Bigpine, Calif. ; June 

 2 and 4 at Florissant, Colo.; August 25 and 27 at Robson, B.C.; and 

 September 5 at Aspen Grove, B.C. 



There is one reared specimen: 9, from Aegeria tibialis, Jemez 

 Springs, N. Mex., July 2, 1929, G. P. Englehardt. Two more females 

 of this same rearing are colored like the subspecies nitschei, so are 

 classified there! We have found the subspecies very common in 

 mountain country where there is short grass and scattered conifers. 



This subspecies is found mostly in the Rocky Mountain area but 

 occurs also in the higher parts of the Sierra Nevada, particularly on 

 the east slopes. 



7b. Trachysphyrus relativus nitscliei (Dalla Torre), new status, new 



combination 



Cryptus violaceipennis Ashmead, 1890, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, p. 408; 



cf , 9 . Name preoccupied by BruUe, 1846. Lectotype (hereby designated) : 



9, Colorado (Washington). 

 Cryptus leucopus Ashmead, 1890, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, p. 409; cT. New 



synonymy. Name preoccupied in Trachysphyrus by Gmelin, 1790. Type: 



cf, Colorado (Washington). 

 Cryptus nitschei Dalla Torre, 1902, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 3, p. 581. 



New name for Cryptus violaceipennis. 

 Cryptus eleucopus Walkley, 1958, U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog., No. 2, suppL, 



p. 46. New name for Cryptus leucopus. 



Male: Black. Facial orbit, usually a median dorsal spot on face, 

 central part of clypeus, often part of cheek, lower 0.7 ± of frontal 

 orbit narrowly, narrow orbital stripe at top of eye, much of hind 

 orbit narrowly, part or most of mandible, much of front of segment 2 

 of maxillary palpus, sometimes a spot on base of tegula, sometimes 

 a narrow stripe on subtegular ridge, under side of first trochanter of 

 front leg and often also of middle leg, sometimes small apical ventral 

 spot on front and middle coxae, and segments 2-4 of hind tarsus, 

 white; palpi fuscous; front and middle femora and tibiae blackish 

 brown to brownish fulvous; apex of segment 1 of hind tarsus often pale 

 brown or white; segment 5 of hind tarsus pale brown; wings subhya- 

 line; abdomen red beyond the fh'st segment, the clasper usually 

 infuscate apically. 



