ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 



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about 0.40 as long as front wing; ovipositor moderately compressed, 

 its tip sagittate. 



Type: Cryptus crassipes Pratt. 



The generic name is from the Latin reptatrix, a creeper. Judging 

 from its general structure, the female does more crawling than the 

 females of related genera. 



There is a single species of the genus in our area. Some undescribed 

 species from Mexico may be assignable to it. 



1. Reptatrix crassipes (Pratt), new combination 



Cryptus crassipes Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 34, p. 585, 9 . Type: ?, 

 Carrville, Trinity Co., Calif., 2,400 to 2,500 ft. (San Francisco). 



Front wing 5.7 to 6.8 mm. long. General structure as in figure 

 314,a. Frons polished, with moderate sized, sharp punctures that 

 are separated by about 1.3 their diameter in the female, larger and 

 more crowded in the male; mesopleurum polished, with moderate- 

 sized, sharp punctures that are partly confluent with and replaced 

 by longitudinal wrinkling. 



Male: Black. Face, clypeus, front part of cheek, sometimes spot 

 or short stripe on frontal orbit, mouth parts, front of scape, tegula, 

 and often the subtegular ridge, yellow; flagellum fulvous brown below; 

 hind corner of pronotum, sometimes part of lower edge of pronotum, 

 and sometimes scutellum, fulvous; legs fulvous, the front coxa and 

 trochanters, more or less of middle coxa, much or all of middle 

 trochanters, and fu*st four segments of all tarsi, yellow; wings wdth a 

 brown tinge; abdomen fulvous, black beyond sLxth segment. 



Female : Black. Middle of face, clypeus, and mandible ferruginous ; 

 palpi, scape except above, legs, and abdomen, fulvoferruginous ; 

 wings wdth a brown tinge. 



Figure 149. — Localities for 

 Reptatrix crassipes. 



