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Figures 119-122. — Localities: 119 (left), Trachysphyrus mentigus meniigus; 120 (center 

 left), T. m. rufator; 121 (center, right), T. ni. rhodomerus; 122 (right), T. crassulus. 



Type: cT, Berkeley, Calif., Apr. 30, 1939, C. D. Michener (Wash- 

 ington, USNM 63782). 



Paratypes (15 cT, 119): From Alaska (Big Delta); Arizona (near 

 Alpine); California (Berldey, Big Flat on Coffee Creek in Trinity Co., 

 Blanco's Corral on White Mt. at 10,000 ft. in Mono Co., 10 miles north 

 of Coffee Creek Ranger Station in Trinity Co., Crescent City, Glacier 

 Lodge in Inyo Co., Gold Lake in Sierra Co., Moose Camp in Shasta Co., 

 1 mile north of Piute Mt. in Mono Co., 4 miles south of Riverside, and 

 Sagehen near Hobart Mills) ; Colorado (near Estes Park and Trouble- 

 some at 7,345 ft.); New Mexico (Cimarron at 9,500 ft.); Oregon 

 (Pike Creek in Steens Mts. at 4,300 ft.); Utah ("Kigalie Ranger 

 Station in Manti-La Sal National Forest"); Washington (summit of 

 Mount Spokane); and Yukon Territory (Whitehorse). 



Dates of collection are mostly from May 25 to July 30. Those 

 outside of this range are: April 30 at Berkeley, Calif .; August 2 at 

 Crescent City, Cahf.; and August 23 at Cimarron, 9,500 ft., N. Mex. 



Tliis subspecies ranges from Alaska to New Mexico and southern 

 California. 



27. Trachysphyrus crassulus (Pratt) 



Cryptus crassulus Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 34, p. 586; ? . Type: 

 ? , Quebec (Townes). 



Male: Unloiown. 



Female: Front wing 9.7 to 10.0 mm. long; general structure about as 

 in T. mentigus but a little more robust, the propodeum more coarsely 

 sculptured, and the front tibia swollen, rather suddenly narrowed 

 near base. 



Black. Flagellum with a white band that covers 7 segments ; front 

 and middle tibiae blackish brown; front and middle tarsi light brown, 

 the apex of their fifth segments darkened; hind femur fulvous, its base 



