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Figures 114-116. — Localities: 114 (left), Trachysphyrus aridus aridus; 115 (center), T. a. 



ocellaris; 116 (right), T. recurvatus. 



Female: Black. Orbit narrowly yellowish, with a short interrup- 

 tion on cheek and a wider interruption on upper part of temple; face, 

 mouth parts, front of scape, and most of propleurum, various shades 

 of brown; stripe on upper margin of pronotum, all of lower margin of 

 pronotum, extreme hind corner of pronotum, tegula, and subtegular 

 ridge, whitish; scutellum brown; legs fulvous, the hind tibia, hind 

 basitarsus, and fifth segment of all tarsi tinged with brown; wings 

 subhyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Specimens: 9, Berkeley, Cahf., May 30, 1933 (Townes). 4cf , 

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

 (Townes). cT, Mesa Grande, Sonoma Co., Cahf., June 1908 (Ithaca), 

 cf , Mono Lake, Calif., June 20, 1948, G. Townes (Townes). cf Cor- 

 vallis, Greg., June 11, 1925, E. C. Van Dyke (San Francisco). 



This subspecies ranges from Oregon to central California, eastward 

 to Reno, Nevada. 



23. Trachysphyrus recurvatus (Pratt) 



Cr?/p<wsrecwrra<Ms Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 34, p. 616; 9- Type: ?, 

 Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico (Washington). 



Front wing 7.2 to 8.0 mm. long; sculpture of head and thorax 

 rather coarse and strong; clypeus moderately small; frons moderately 

 concave; thorax rather elongate; mesoscutum with moderate sized, 

 dense punctures; central part of mesopleurum ruguloso-punctate in 

 both sexes; apical carina of propodeum much stronger than basal 

 carina, rather evenly curved; areolet rather large, its sides strongly 

 convergent above; second recurrent vein simply arched; first abdom- 

 inal segment rather narrow, its spiracle nearer middle than usual, its 

 postpetiole gradually widened; ovipositor sheath about 0.78 as long 

 as front wing; ovipositor slender, subcyhndric, gently upcurved. 



