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and apex narrowly infuscate; hind tarsus white, the basal 0.3 of first 

 segment and apical 0.2 of last segment infuscate; wings faintly to 

 moderately infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, the basal half of its first 

 segment infuscate. 



Specimens: 9 (type), Quebec, Que., June 3, 1919, J. O. Roy 

 (Townes). 9, Chippewa Co., Mich., June 25, 1960, R. and K 

 Dreisbach (Dreisbach). This latter locality is not shown on the map. 



28. Trachysphynis persiznilis (Cresson) 



Cryptus persimilis Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 298; 9 . 



Type: 9, Delaware (Philadelphia). 

 Cryptus picticoxus Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, pp. 82; c?. 



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

 Cryptus mundus Provancher, 1874, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 6, pp. 177, 203; cf. 



Lectotype: cf, Quebec (Quebec). 

 Cryptus citrinimacidatiis Viereck, 1905, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 19, p. 



320; cf . Type: cf, Douglas Co., 900 ft., Kans. (Lawrence). 

 Cryptus associatus Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 34, p. 633; 9. New 



synonymy. [<^ = T. ruralis]. Type: 9 , Kaslo, B. C. (Washington). 



Front wing 4.3 to 7.3 mm. long; lower half of frons with a small 

 amount of weak, transverse wrinkling; clypeus rather wide and evenly 

 convex; temple of moderate width, moderately convex; notaulus 

 sharp, foveolate; mesopleurum with dense rather fine reticulation 

 resulting from crowding of punctures; basal and apical carinae of 

 propodeum moderately far apart; front tibia of female distinctly in- 

 flated; hind femur about 5.3 as long as deep in male, about 5.1 as 

 long as deep in female; second recurrent vein strongly sinuate; ovi- 

 positor sheath about 0.67 as long as front wing; ovipositor slender, 

 weakly upcurved, with a short wide tip, about 3.0 as long from 

 nodus to apex as it is deep at nodus. 



Male: Black. Orbit in front and at top of eye (broader on face), 

 narrow stripe on hind orbit, dorsomedial spot on face, clypeus except 

 its margins, part or all of mandible, palpi, spot on front of scape, 

 tegula, often subtegular ridge, stripe on under side of front coxa, and 

 under side of front and middle first trochanters, light yellow; front 

 and middle second trochanters brown to fulvous, usually yellow below; 

 front and middle legs beyond trochanters fulvous, their fifth tarsal 

 segments brown; hind femur and tibia fulvoferruginous, the apical 

 0.25 d= of the tibia infuscate; hind tarsus brown or fuscous, paler at 

 the joints, never marked with white; wings faintly tinged with brown; 

 apical 0.18 ± of first abdominal tergite ferruginous; second and follow- 

 ing tergites ferruginous; clasper fuscous. 



Female: Black. Orbit narrowly yellowish in front and behind; 

 center of clypeus sometimes yellowish; palpi and tegula fuscous; sec- 

 ond trochanters partly ferruginous and partly fuscous; front and 



