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1952 (Washington). 9, Meadow Valley, Plumas Co., 6,000 to 

 7,000 ft., Calif., Aug. 16, 1956, H. Ruckes, Jr. (Berkeley). 9, Nor- 

 den, Nevada Co., Calif., July 28, 1940 (Berkele}^. d', Collins, Idaho, 

 July 27, 1898, C. V. Piper (Washington), d" , Donnelly, Idaho, M. M. 

 Furniss, from sawfiy cocoon (Washington). 4cf, 39, Sweet Home, 

 Oreg., June 28, 1937, from Neodiprion tsugae (Washington, San 

 Francisco, and Townes). 29, Mount Rainier at 4,700 ft.. Wash., 

 July 19, 1940, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Mount Rainier at 

 4,000 ft.. Wash., July 22, 1940, H. and M. Townes (Townes). cf , 

 Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., July 1947, R. M. Bohart (Townes). 

 9, "Yp. Poddy Cr.," August 5 (Washington). 



This subspecies ranges from British Columbia to Colorado and 

 Oregon, and down the Sierra Nevada of California. 



2. Habrocryptoides rufifrons (Walsh), new combination 



Cryptus rufifrons Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, p. 75; ?. Type: 

 9, Illinois? (destroyed in Chicago fire of 1871). 



Front wing 3.7 to 6.5 mm. long; thorax short and stout; frons 

 strongly mat, with small indistinct punctures that are separated by 

 about 0.8 their diameter; clypeus small, strongly convex, its apical 

 third steeply declivous and a little flattened, its apicolateral cor- 

 ner a little reflexed; mesopleurum subpolished, its punctures rather 

 coarse and strong, centrally crowded to result in being partly ob- 

 scured b}^ rugulosity (at least in female), peripherally sparser and 

 distinctly separated; apical carina of propodeum complete, sublater- 

 ally forming a distinct crest (where it varies from almost horizontal 

 to inclined by 40°), mesad of the crest turning strongly forward; 

 hairs on second tergite of female moderately dense; ovipositor sheath 

 about 0.32 as long as front wing; ovipositor moderately slender, in 

 profile its dorsal valve weakly concave between nodus and apex. 



Male: Head whitish, the median part of frons and vertex and 

 upper half of occiput black; mouth parts white; antenna dark brown, 

 the scape and pedicel white beneath; propleurum, broad upper and 

 lower edges of pronotum, mesosternum, lower 0.3 ± of mesopleurum, 

 tegula, subtegular ridge, upper end of prepectus and of mesepimeron, 

 spot in center of mesoscutum and often a small spot on mesoscutum 

 next to base of front wing, scutellum, postscutellum, sometimes spot 

 in middle of propodeum, front and middle coxae, and front and middle 

 trochanters, ivory white; mesoscutum fulvous with its margins and 

 notauli black, sometimes with its median lobe mostly or entirely black; 

 trough of pronotum, upper 0.25 ± of mesopleurum, and areas around 

 scutella black or infuscate; front and middle legs beyond trochanters 

 light fulvous, their tarsi brown, paler below and at joints; hind coxa, 

 trochanters, and femur fulvous; hind tibia brown; hind tarsus white, its 



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