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apical carina of propodeum complete, a little stronger at position of 

 the crest where it slopes upward at about 50°, more mesad turning a 

 httle more strongly upward and forward; hairs on second tergite 

 sparse, the hair sockets separated by about 2.5 the length of the 

 hairs; ovipositor sheath 0.80 as long as front wing; ovipositor rather 

 slender; upper valve of ovipositor in profile slightly concave between 

 nodus and apex. 



Head black, the face brownish, the orbit broadly ivory with a 

 short interruption on cheek and a wide interruption on upper part 

 of temple; mouth parts brown; antenna dark brown, the scape paler; 

 thorax black, the upper and lower margins of pronotum broadly, 

 tegula, subtegular ridge, scutella, broad somewhat oblique stripe 

 on postero ventral part of mesopleurum, mesepimeron, and upper 

 0.6 of metapleurum, white; legs fulvous, their tarsi brownish fulvous 

 and front and middle coxae with some whitish stains on outer 

 side; wings hyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Type: 9, Lancaster, Cahf., Apr. 10, 1936 (Washington, USNM 

 63775). 



6. Habrocryptoides erasus, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female type: Front wing 4.8 mm. long; thorax of normal propor- 

 tions; frons weakly mat, its punctures small, weak, separated by 

 about 1.4 their diameter; clypeus short and wide, its apex broadly 

 truncate, in profile forming a low pyramid with its basal half a little 

 convex and its apical half flat; mesopleurum subpohshed, with fine, 

 weak wrinlding medially, its punctures fine, weak, and separated 

 by about 1.5 their diameter; apical carina of propodeum forming a 

 sublateral crest that slopes upward at about 60°, absent mesad of 

 the crest; hair sockets on second tergite separated by about the 

 length of the hairs; ovipositor sheath 0.66 as long as front wing; 

 ovipositor moderately stout, its upper valve in profile straight be- 

 tween nodus and apex. 



Head black, the orbit wliite except for a wide interruption on 

 upper part of temple, the clypeus and a median spot on face brown; 

 mouth parts brown; antenna black, the flagellum with a median 

 incomplete white band that covers 4 segments; thorax black, the 

 collar, upper margin of pronotum, stripe on lower front margin of 

 pronotum, and subtegular ridge, white; tegula brown with a small 

 white spot on its hind corner; coxae brown, the front and middle 

 coxae with a whitish blotch externally and the hind coxa with a 

 white dorsal basal spot; legs beyond coxae brownish fulvous; wings 

 hyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Type: 9, Oldman River, Lethbridge, Alta., June 22, 1956, O. 

 Peck (Ottawa). 



