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Ischnns albitarsis Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 194; cf. 



Type: c?, Illinois (Philadelphia). 

 Cryptus americanus Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 297; 9 . 



Lectotype: 9, Illinois (Philadelphia). 

 Cryptus nigricalceatus Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, p. 77; cf . 



Type: cf , Illinois? (destroyed in Chicago fire of 1871). 

 Cryptus nigricornis Provancher, 1874, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 6, pp. 177, 201; 



cT. Name preoccupied by Brull6, 1846. Lectotype: cf, Quebec (Quebec). 

 Nematopodius coxatus Provancher, 1875, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 7, p. 269; cf . 



Type: cT, Quebec (lost). 

 Hoplismenus impar Provancher, 1879, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 11, p. 3 (Faune, 



p. 292); 'V"= 9. Type: 9, Quebec (Quebec). 

 Spilocryptus canarsiae Ashmead, 1897, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 4, p. 124; 



d^. Type: cf, Champaign, 111. (Urbana). 

 Cryptus purneri Dalla Torre, 1902, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 3, p. 585. 



New name for C. nigricornis. 



Male: Black. Orbit (broader in front, incomplete on lower part of 

 temple and usually at top of temple), central part of face, front part 

 of cheek, clypeus, mouth parts, front of scape, tegula, collar, hind 

 corner of pronotum, usually more or less of upper margin of pronotum, 

 often lower front edge of pronotum, subtegular ridge, more or less of 

 scutellum, often postscutellum, and under side of front and middle 

 coxae, white; front and middle first trochanters white, fuscous above; 

 front and middle femora brown to fuscous, fulvous in front except 

 near base, their apices whitish in front; front and middle tibiae and 

 tarsi fulvous, the upper side of tibiae white, the tarsi whitish above 

 except that apical segments are entirely brownish; hind tarsus usually 

 with segments 2-4 white and sometimes base of segment 5 and apical 

 part of segment 1 white; wings subhyaline; abdomen red, the base of 

 fii'st tergite often infuscate, the clasper and subgenital plate fuscous. 



Female: Black. Orbit with a narrow whitish stripe in front and 

 behind; palpi fuscous; tegula dark brown; subtegular ridge often 

 brown; front femur apically in front, apex of middle femur in front, 



Figure 129. — Localities for 



Trachysphyrus albitarsis 

 albitarsis. 



