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9, locality unknown, Apr. 23, 1951 (Washington). There is also a 

 female in the Ithaca collection from Dewitt, Ga., collected May 

 19, 1912. The specimen may be mislabeled. 

 This species is known from central California. 



10. Compsocryptus unicolor, new species 



Figure 367 



Male: Front wing 10.5 to 11.0 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 0.80 as long as eye, weakly convex; punctures on mesopleurum 

 rather coarse, strong, subadjacent to somewhat crowded; basal 

 transverse carina of propodeum weak, indistinct medially; apical 

 transverse carina rather strong, medially absent or indistinct. 



Ferruginous. Ocellar area, lower median part of frons, and occi- 

 put more or less black; flagellum black, its basal 0.7 brownish fulvous 

 below; more or less extensive sutural marks on thorax black; front 

 and middle legs beyond femora and hind tarsus fulvous; hind tibia 

 wealdy infuscate apically; wings dark brown, the costa, basal 0.2 ± 

 of stigma, and basal 0.6 i of subcosta fulvous brown; abdomen 

 without any fuscous marks. 



Female: Front wing 10.0 to 12.0 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 0.78 as long as eye, weakly convex; second segment of flagellum 

 about 3.5 as long as wide; ^videst subapical segments of flagellum 

 about 0.62 as long as wide; punctures on mesopleurum small, not 

 strong, moderately close, many of them obscured by irregular longi- 

 tudinal wrinkling; basal transverse carina of propodeum very weak 

 and indistinct; apical transverse carina strong, its median 0.2 ± 

 absent or indistinct; hind femur about 5.3 as long as deep; setiferous 

 punctures on most of second tergite separated by 2 to 3 times length 

 of hairs, but on lateral portion of tergite separated by about 0.6 

 the length of hairs; ovipositor sheath about 0.58 as long as front 

 wing; ovipositor about 5.2 as long from nodus to apex as it is deep 

 at nodus. 



Ferruginous. Median part of flagellum usually ■wdth a faintly 

 paler fulvoferruginous band; apical 0.45 of flagellum blacldsh; wings 

 dark brown, the costa, basal0.5±of subcosta, and basal 0.2 of stigma 

 brownish fulvous; head, thorax, and abdomen without fuscous 

 marldngs except sometimes in areas at base of front wing, groove 

 at base of scutellum, and grooves at base of propodeum. 



Type: 9, Walker Pass, Kern Co., Calif., June 26, 1949, H. E. 

 Cott (Washington, USNM 63796). 



Paratypes: d", Coalinga, Calif., May 14, 1938, M. Cazier (Townes). 

 9, near Coalinga, CaHf., June 8, 1941, K. M. Bohart (Townes). d', 

 same data as type (Townes). 9, San Joaquin Valle}^, Calif., May 3, 

 1941, McKittrick (Berkeley). 



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