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Male: Colored as in the subspecies virgeus except as follows: Face 

 sometimes with a brown spot above each clypeal fovea; scape black, 

 its front white; upper part of prepectus mostly black; mesopleurum 

 black except for an anteroventral and a smaller posteroventral white 

 spot; hind femur not fuscous at apex; hind basitarsus fuscous, its 

 apex sometimes narrowly whitish; segment 2 of hind tarsus usually 

 fuscous basally; segment 5 of hind tarsus fuscous; segment 1 of ab- 

 domen not white at apex. 



Female: Colored as in the subspecies virgeus except as follows: 

 Median white mark on face fulvous or white; clypeus and mandible 

 fulvous; white band on flagellum covering only about 4 segments; 

 mesopleurum black except that subtegular ridge is white and that 

 there is a ferruginous spot in its posteroventral corner; metapleurum 

 black, its dorsal part ferruginous; propodemn black, with a broad 

 ferruginous band along its apical carina, the median part of the fer- 

 ruginous band usually with whitish areas; hind tarsus fulvous, its 

 last segment brown. 



Type: cf, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 20, 1947, H. and M. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63773). 



Paratypes: 7cf, 9, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 13, 20, and 21, 

 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., 

 Aug. 15, 1938, D. J. and J. N. Knull (Columbus), cf , Parker Creek, 

 Sierra Ancha, Ariz., AprU 25, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 

 9, Pocket Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., May 5, 1947, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). cf, Sabino Canyon, Ariz., emerged Feb. 20, 1920, from 

 Prosopis, W. D. Edmonston (Washington). 9, Boulder, Colo., 

 Sept. 22, 1907, S. A. Rohwer (Washington). 3 d", University of Colo- 

 rado campus, Boulder, Colo., July 24, Aug. 6 and 7, T. D. A. Cockerell 

 (Washington) . 



This subspecies has been taken in Arizona and Colorado, in rela- 

 tively moist deciduous woods in the Transition zone. 



4. Habrocryptoides pictus, new species 



Male: Front wing 4.3 to 5.2 mm. long; thorax moderately stout; 

 frons mat, almost smooth, its punctures moderately small, separated 

 by about 0.6 their diameter; clypeus of moderate size, in profile a 

 rounded pyramid, its apical 0.35 flat and abruptly declivous; meso- 

 pleurum mat, with some wrinl-ding medially, its punctures rather 

 coarse and strong, closest together below the middle, where they are 

 separated by about 0.5 their diameter; apical carina of propodeum 

 forming a sublateral crest that is almost horizontal, just mesad of the 

 crest turning forward and obsolescent. 



Head white, the middle of frons, of vertex, and back side of head 

 black; mouth parts white; antenna black, the scape white in front; 



