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Figures 159-162. — Localities: 159 (left), Compsocrypius unicolor; 160 (center, left), C. 

 turbatus; 161 (center, right), C. fletcheri; 162 (right), C. purpuripennis. 



Ferruginous. Apical 0.45 of flagellum infuscate; central part of 

 occiput and sutural markings on thorax black; wings dark brown, the 

 costa, basal 0.5 db of stigma, and basal 0.7 ± of subcosta fulvous 

 brown; basal 0.2 of third tergite fuscous, the fuscous area absent from 

 lateral part of tergite and constricted on midline. 



Specimens (12 cf, 209): From British Columbia (Victoria); Califor- 

 nia (Buck Creek and Davis Creek in Modoc Co.) ; Idaho (9 miles 

 southwest of Midvale) ; Oregon (Blue Mts., Corvallis, Fox VaUey, 

 lOamath Falls, Lakeview, Lincoln Mt. at Milton, Medford, Milton, 

 Olene, Ten Cent Lake (dry) near Alberson, and YoncaUa); and Utah 

 (Farr West, Logan, Newton, and "Portageur" (Utah?)). 



Dates of collection are distributed from June 23 to July 29, except 

 for the following dates outside of this range: May 25 at Victoria, 

 B.C. ; June 1 at Corvallis, Oreg. ; and August 20 at Portageur, Utah?. 



This species ranges from Vancouver Island to northern California 

 and eastward to northern Utah. 



13. Compsocryptus purpuripennis (Cresson) 



Figure 369 



Cryptus purpuripennis Cresson, 1878, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 30, p. 364; 9 • Type: $ , California (Philadelphia). 



Male: Front wing 7.5 to 12.5 mm. long; temple at midheight about 

 1.05 as long as eye, at and a little below its midheight flat or weakly 

 concave, elsewhere very weakly convex; punctures on mesopleurum 

 moderately coarse, separated by about 0.8 their diameter; propodeal 

 carinae as in female. 



Ferruginous. Median part of frons and vertex, occiput, area 

 around clypeal fovea, pedicel, all of flagellum, sutural markings on 



