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Specimens icT, Big Flat, Coffee Creek, Trinity Co., Calif., June 21, 

 1934 (Townes). cf , Old Station, Shasta Co., Calif., June 15, 1941 

 (Berkeley), cf, Samuel Spring, Napa Co., Calif., June 21, 1955, D. L. 

 Dahlsten (Davis). cT, Tamarack Lake, 7,700 ft., Calif., July 19, 1931, 

 E. O. Essig (Berkeley), cf, Tanbark Flat, Los Angeles Co., Calif., 

 June 17, 1956, R. M. Bohart (Townes). cf , "Tetley Park," San 

 Bernardino Mts., Calif., May 11, 1941, E. C. Van Dyke (San Francisco). 

 cT, Dixie, Elmore Co., Idaho, June 17, 1957, W. F. Barr (Townes). 

 9, Baker Co., Oreg., June 23, 1922, L. R. Dice (Ann Arbor), cf, 

 Logan Canyon, 5 miles east of Logan, Utah, June 11, 1955, G. E. 

 Bogart (Moscow), d^. Mount Rainier, 2,900 ft., Wash., July 28, 

 1940, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 29, Jackson Hole, Grand 

 Tetons, Wyo., June 28, 1938, E. C. Van Dyke (San Francisco and 

 Townes). 



This species occiu"S in western United States, in the Transition 

 and Canadian zones. 



13. Genus Compsocryptus 



Figure 314,b 



Cryptoidetis Ashmead, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 42. Type: Cryptus 



purpuripennis Cresson; original designation. 

 Compsocryptus Ashmead, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 43. Type: Crypiws 



calipterus Say; original designation. 

 CaUicryptus Ashmead, 1900 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 43. Type: (Cryptus 



"fasciatus" (!) Btu]16) =fascnpennis (Brull6) ; original designation. 

 Stictocryptus Cameron, 1908, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 243. Name 



preoccupied. Type: (Cryptus fasciatipennis (!) Bvulle) =fascnpennis (BrulI4); 



original designation. 



Front wing 7.2 to 13.0 mm. long; body of moderate proportions; 

 frons unarmed; clypeus moderately large, rather weakly convex, its 

 apex broadly truncate or weakly convex, without a median tooth; 

 subapical part of female flagellum usually a httle widened and weakly 

 flattened below (cylindi-ic and not widened in all other Nearctic 

 genera except Reptratrix and Joppidium) ; mesoscutum rather strongly 

 convex, mat, with fine, very dense punctures; notaulus weak, not 

 reaching center of mesoscutum; epomia rather weak; propodeum 

 rather strongly convex, its basal transverse carina sharp, blunt, or 

 sometimes absent, its apical transverse carina moderately strong, 

 obsolete medially, or rarely absent, usually forming weak sublateral 

 crests; propodeal spiracle elongate; wings brown or banded with 

 yellow and brown or black and yellow; areolet moderately large, 

 pentagonal, rather wide, its front side about as long as mesal side; 

 ramellus absent; nervulus opposite basal vein; mediella almost 

 straight; nervullus broken well below the middle; axillus long, diver- 

 gent from anal margin, about as close to submediella as to anal 



