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PART 3 



7. Habrocryptoides nitens, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female type: Front wing 5.4 mm. long; thorax of normal propor- 

 tions; frons mat, its punctures fine, weak, separated by about 1.3 

 their diameter; clypeus wide, short, its apical margin broadly trun- 

 cate, in profile shaped like a sharp pyramid with its basal half almost 

 flat and apical half weakly concave; mesopleurum rather weakly 

 mat, medially with fine, rather weak wrinlding, its punctures small, 

 weak, separated by about their diameter; apical carina of propodeum 

 sharp except on its median 0.3, where it is obsolescent, sublaterally 

 forming a short weak crest which slopes upward at about 60°, mesad 

 of the crest turning forward and upward a little more strongly; 

 hair sockets on second tergite separated by about 1.3 the length 

 of the hairs; ovipositor sheath 0.56 as long as front wing; ovipositor 

 stout, its upper valve in profile a little convex between nodus and 

 apex. 



Head black, with a large median white spot on face, the orbit 

 white except for an interruption on upper part of temple and a 

 narrow subcomplete interruption on cheek; mouth parts brown; 

 antenna black, brown apically, two of its median segments whitish 

 above; thorax b]ack, the collar, upper margin of pronotum, stripe 

 on lower front margin of pronotum, and subtegular ridge, white; 

 tegula fuscous, its hind corner white; coxae fulvous, the front and 

 middle coxae mottled with brownish and whitish on the outer side; 

 first trochanters brown; front and middle legs beyond first trochanters 

 fulvous; hind femur and second trochanter fulvous; hind tibia and 

 tarsus brownish fulvous; wings hyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Type: 9, Ridgecrest, Kern Co., Calif., Apr. 25, 1949, E. G. Linsley, 

 J. W. MacSwain, and R. F. Smith (Berkeley). 



Figures 80 83. — Localities: 80 (left), Habrocryptoides lumbarius; 81 (center, left), H. 

 erasus; 82 (center, right), H. nitens; 83 (right), //. inflexus. 



