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PART 3 



Figures 155-158. — Localities: 155 (left), Compsocryptus apicalis; 156 (center, left), C. 

 crotchii; 157 (center, right), C. pallens; 158 (right), C. tricinctus. 



fuscous, paler basally; tarsi yellowish; wings yellowish brown, with 

 indistinct brown bands, in the same pattern as female (fig. 366) but 

 paler. 



Female: Front wing 11.0 to 12.0 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 1.0 as long as eye, moderately convex; second flagellar segment 

 about 3.4 as long as wide; widest subapical segments of flagellum 

 about 0.65 as long as wide; punctures on mesopleurum rather small, 

 separated by about 0.35 their diameter, in places somewhat confluent 

 with fine, rather weak longitudinal wrinkling; basal transverse carina 

 of propodeum represented by a short weak vestige behind spiracle; 

 apical transverse carina represented by a rather long, weak sub- 

 lateral carina, absent medially and laterally; setiferous punctures 

 on median and medioapical part of second tergite separated by 

 about 1.7 the length of the hairs, elsewhere denser, separated in the 

 densest areas by about 0.8 the length of the hairs; ovipositor sheath 

 about 1.35 as long as front wing; ovipositor about 9.3 as long from 

 nodus to apex as it is deep at nodus. 



Ferruginous. Median part of occiput, clypeal foveae, sometimes 

 part of ocellar area, apical 0.45 ± of flagellum, thoracic sutures, 

 basal 0.3 of second and third tergites, and a pair of narrow basal 

 marks on fourth tergite, black, the black on second tergite almost or 

 quite divided medially; hind tibia infuscate apically; wings dark 

 brown, the front wing with paler areas as in figure 366. 



Type: 9, Coalinga, Calif., Apr. 26, 1950, R. M. Bohart (Davis). 



Paratypes: 9, Alpine Lake, Marin Co., Calif., June 6, 1957, J. A. 

 Chemsak (Berkeley). 2cf, same data as type (Townes). cf, Fair 

 Oaks, Calif., May 7, 1949, W. F. Ehrhardt (Townes). 9, San Antonio 

 Valley, Santa Clara Co., Calif., May 27, 1948, R. v. d. Bosch (Townes). 



