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8. Habrocryptoides inflexus, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female type: Front wing 5.1 mm. long; thorax of moderate propor- 

 tions; frons mat, its punctures very fine but sharp, separated by 

 about 1.8 their diameter; clypeus short, its apical margin very weakly 

 arched, in profile rather evenly convex except that its apical 0.4 is 

 flattened; mesopleurum polished, with wrinkling medially but no 

 punctures, elsewhere the punctures moderatel}^ coarse, sharp, separa- 

 ted by about 1.4 their diameter; apical carina of propodeum complete, 

 rather strong, sublaterally forming a weak crest that ascends at about 

 60°, mesad of the crest sloping upward a little more strongly; hairs on 

 second tergite very sparse, their sockets separated by about 3.5 the 

 length of the hairs; ovipositor sheath 0.77 as long as front wing; 

 ovipositor of moderate thickness, its dorsal valve in profile a little 

 concave between nodus and apex. 



Head black vvith the orbit yellow from upper part of face to top 

 of eye (with a short interruption opposite antennal socket) and with 

 irregular j^ellow blotches along lower half of temple; mandible brown; 

 palpi fulvous; antenna uniformly browm except that scape is paler in 

 front; thorax black, the collar, upper margin of pronotum, subtegular 

 ridge, and scutella, yellow; lower front edge of pronotum fulvous; 

 tegula yellow; legs fulvous; wings subhyaline; abdomen fulvous, the 

 basal half of its first segment infuscate. 



Type: 9, Woodfords, Alpine Co., Calif., June 17, 1958, W. W. 

 Middlekauff (Berkeley). 



9. Genus Trachysphyrus 



Figure 312,b 



Cryptus Fabricius, 1804, Systema piezatorum, p. 70. Name preoccupied by 



Jurine, 1801. Type: Cryptus viduatorius Fabricius; designated by Curtis, 



1837. 

 Trachysphyrus Haliday, 1836, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 17, p. 317. Type: 



Trachysphyrus imperialis Haliday; monobasic. 

 Meringopus Foerster, 1868, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, vol. 25, p. 186. 



Type: Cryptus recreator Fabricius. Included by Tschek, 1870. 

 Itamoplex Foerster, 1868, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, vol. 25, p. 188. Type: 



(Cryptus americanus Cresson) = albitarsis (Cresson); designated by Viereck, 



1914. 

 Goniocryptus Thomson, 1873, Opuscula entomologica, fasc. 5, p. 471, 490. Type: 



Ichneumon titillator Linnaeus; designated by Viereck, 1914. 

 Cosmiocryptus Cameron, 1902, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 28, p. 371. Type: 



Cosmiocryptus violaceipennis Cameron; monobasic. 

 Cyanocryptus Cameron, 1903, Entomologist, vol. 36, p. 121. Type: Cyano- 



cryptus metallicus Cameron; monobasic. 

 Biiathra Cameron, 1903, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 1903, p. 233. Type: 



Buathra rufiventris Cameron; monobasic. 



