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PART 3 



Figures 77-79. — Localities: 77 (left), Habrocryptoides virgeus virgeus; 78 (center), H. o. 



ardalus; 79 (right), //. f ictus. 



thorax black, most of propleunmi, wide upper and lower margins of 

 pronotiun, spot in center of mesosciitum, scutellum, postscutellum, 

 tegula, subtegular ridge, lower 0.3 ± of mesopleurum, most of mese- 

 pimeron, sometimes a narrow stripe mesad of stemaulus, upper half 

 of metapleurum, and spot in center of propodeum with lateral con- 

 tinuations covering propodeal crests, white; front and middle legs 

 fulvous, their coxae and trochanters white and their tarsi brown 

 apically; hind coxa fulvous, with a small dorsal basal yellow area; 

 first hind trochanter dark brown; second hind trochanter brown, 

 basally with a yeJlowish tinge; hind femur fulvous, its apex weakly 

 infuscate; hind tibia brown, darkest apically; hind tarsus infuscate, 

 paler at the joints; wings hyaline; abdomen fulvous, the apex of its 

 first segment often with a small yellow area. 



Female: Unknown. 



Type: cf, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 17, 1947, H. and M. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63774). 



Paratypes: 7cf , Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 13, 17, 19, and 20, 

 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). cf , Pocket Creek, Sierra Ancha, 

 Ariz., May 5, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 



Male: 



5. Habrocryptoides lumbarius, new species 



Unknown. 



Female type: Front wing 4.0 mm. long; thorax rather low and 

 long; frons polished, with moderate sized punctures that are separated 

 by about their diameter; clypeus short, its basal half moderately 

 convex, its apical half distinctly concave, polished, its apical margin 

 broadly truncate; mesopleurum polished with wrinkling below 

 subtegular ridge, in front of speculum, and at stemaulus, its punctures 

 of moderate size, rather strong, separated by about 1.2 their diameter; 



