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wing; ovipositor about 6.3 as long from nodus to apex as it is deep 

 at nodus. 



Fulvous or fulvoferruginous. Middle of occiput, apical 0.45 of 

 fiagellum, restricted sutural markings on thorax, and basal 0.2 ± of 

 third tergite black, the black on third tergite not reaching side of ter- 

 gite and narrowed medially; flageUum with a very indistinct median 

 yellowish band; wings orange yellow, marked with dark brown, the 

 front wing as in figure 364; apex of hind femur usuaUy a little brown- 

 ish; hind tibia usually a Httle infuscate at apex; hind tarsus pale 

 fulvous; base of second tergite sometimes with a fuscous blotch on 

 each side. 



Type: 9, Pollock, Idaho, July 12, 1907, J. M. Aldrich (Washington, 

 USNM 63795). 



Paratypes: 9, Lone Pine, Calif., June 1, 1941, R. M. Bohart 

 (Davis). 9, Surprise Canyon, Panamint Mts., Inyo Co., Calif., 

 Apr. 24, 1957, J. Powell (Berkeley). 9, "Red Mountain," Calif., 

 May 11, 1955, W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa). 2 cf", 3 miles east of Walker 

 Pass, Kern Co., Calif., Apr. 25, 1952, G. A. Marsh and J. G. Rozen 

 (Berkeley). 9, Colo., C. F. Baker (Washington). 9, Fish Lake, 

 Steens Mts., Oreg., July 26, 1936, S. G. Jewett, Jr. (Corvallis). 9, 10 

 miles east of Beaver in Beaver Canyon, Utah, June 11, 1946, R. M. 

 Bohart (Townes). 



This species in known from Oregon, California, and Utah. 



8. Compsocryptus buccatiis (Cresson) 



Figure 365 



Cryptus huccalus Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 159; cT, 9 . 

 Lectotype: 9 , Texas (Philadelphia) . 



Male: Front wing 9.0 to 12.0 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 1.18 as long as eye, rather strongly convex, bulged so that head 

 is a little wider across temples than across eyes (in all other species of 

 the genus the head narrower across temples than across eyes) ; mandi- 

 ble long, tapered to a narrow apex and a single point (the upper 

 tooth), its lower tooth present as a weak subapical lobe (in all other 

 species of the genus mandible is of normal width and ends in two teeth 

 of approximately equal size); punctures on mesopleurum of medium 

 size, strong, separated by about 0.3 their diameter; transverse carinae 

 of propodeum very indistinct or entirely absent; punctures on first 

 tergite unusually dense. 



Fulvoferruginous. Usually face, cheek, frontal orbit, usually 

 clypeus, broad median band on fiagellum, front and middle legs be- 

 3^ond trochanters, and liind tarsi, fulvous to yellowish; head, thorax, 

 and coxae with a variable amount of black, sometimes most of head 

 (including all of face and clypeus), all of prothorax, mesopleurum and 



