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hind tarsus usually white or whitish; segments 2-4 of hind tarsus 

 mostly or entirely white; wings subhyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Female: Black. Narrow stripes on front and hind orbits white, 

 the stripe on hind orbit shorter; palpi and tegula medium to dark 

 brown; subtegular ridge sometimes white; front and middle legs 

 beyond first trochanter brownish fulvous to dark brown; hind femur 

 fulvous, its base and apex more or less infuscate; hind tibia and tarsus 

 brown or fuscous; wings faintly infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, its 

 first segment often infuscate basally. 



Specimens: 9, on Pinus ponderosa, Aspen Grove, B.C., July 6, 1933, 

 H. Richmond (Ottawa). 9, reared from Betula occidentalis, Salmon 

 Arm, B.C., June 1933, Hugh B. Leech (Ottawa), cf , Camino, Cahf., 

 June 29, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). 9, Chester, 

 Calif., July 7, 1948, D. J. and J. N. KnuU (Columbus). 9, Dollar 

 Lake Trail, San Bernardino Mts., Cahf., July 10, 1956, H. R. Moffitt 

 (Townes). Sd", 9, Echo Lake, El Dorado Co., Calif., July 9, 1951, 

 July 11, 1953, July 13, 1952, and July 19, 1955, W. W. Middlekauff 

 (Berkeley). 4d^, near Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, Calif., 

 July 18, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). 9, Hot 

 Creek, Mono Co., Cahf., July 17, 1953, E. L Schlinger (Davis). 5^^, 

 9, Leevining, Cahf., June 22 and 24, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes 

 (Townes). d", Mineralldng, Tulare Co., Cahf., Aug. 4, 1922, C. L. 

 Fox (San Francisco), cf , E. Estes Park, Colo., June 7, 1956, R. and 

 K. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 9, Wallace, Idaho, July 18, 1935, O. 

 Huellemann (Pittsburgh), cf, 10 miles north of Highway 20 on 

 Nortli Santiam River, Linn Co., Oreg., June 24, 1954, J. C. Downey 

 (Davis). 



This subspecies occurs from southern British Columbia to southern 

 California, eastward to Colorado. 



22b. Trachysphyrus aridus ocellaris (Pratt), new status 



Cryptus ocellaris Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 34, p. 617; 9 . Type: 9 , 

 Reno, Nev. (Washington). 



Male : Black. Face and clypeus (except for fuscous mark on each 

 clypeal fovea and fuscous mark on apex of clypeus), cheek, orbit 

 except on upper part of temple, mouth parts, front of scape, lower 

 part of propleurum, upper and lower margins of pronotum, tegula, 

 subtegular ridge, spot on scutellum, and front and middle first tro- 

 chanters, white; front and middle coxae white, fulvous basally; front 

 and middle legs beyond first trochanters fulvous; hind coxa, trochan- 

 ters, and femur fulvous, the extreme apex of femur usually a little 

 infuscate; hind tibia and tarsus fulvous brown, the tarsal segments 

 2-4 and apex of tarsal segment 1 mostly or entirely yellowish wliite 

 or fulvous; wings subhyaline; abdomen fulvoferruginous. 



