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Figures 150, 151. — Localities; 150 (left), Compsocrypius fasciipennts; 151 (right), C. 



texensis. 



a weak apical infuscation, and third tergite has a basal infuscate area. 

 Usually the base of fourth tergite is narrowly infuscate. 



Female: Front wing 7.5 to 12,5 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 0.80 as long as eye, wealdy convex, a little less strongly con- 

 vex than in C. calipterus; punctures on mesopleurum small, sharp, very 

 dense, their interspaces almost obliterated; second tergite with small 

 dense punctures and short dense hairs all over except on apical margin. 

 Structm-e otherwise as described for female of C. calipterus calipterus. 



Colored like female of C. calipterus calipterus except that ground 

 color is a little darker ferruginous, fu'st nine segments of flagellum 

 uniformly ferruginous, and dark bands on wings a little wider. Front 

 wing banded as in figure 358. 



Type: 9, Bexar Co., Tex., Mar. 27, 1931, H. B. Parks (Washington, 

 USNM 63792). 



Paratypes (107 cf, 1389): From Kansas (Montgomery Co. at 798 ft., 

 Phillipsburg, Salt Flats Area in Stafford Co., and Topeka); Oklahoma 

 (Alva, Stillwater, and Tulsa) ; Texas (Alpine, Austin, Austin State 

 Park near Sealy, The Basin in Big Bend National Park at 5,000 to 

 6,000 ft., Blanco Co., Brownsville and south of Texas Garden in 

 Brownsville, Caldwell Co., Cameron, Carrizo Springs, Cherryspring, 

 Chisos Mts., Comstock, Crystal City, Dallas, Davis Mts., Del Rio, 

 Eagle Mountain Lake near Fort Worth, Eagle Pass, Eastland Co., 

 Fedor, 6 to 10 miles west of Fort Davis on Texas Route 166 at 5,000 

 ft., Fort Sam Houston in Bexar Co., Fredericksburg, Giddings, Grape- 

 vine Springs in Big Bend National Park at 3,000 ft.. Green Gulch 

 in Big Bend National Park at 5,000 ft., Greenville, Harper, Head- 

 quarters of Big Bend National Park at 3,500 to 4,000 ft., Hunt Co., 

 Karnes City, KerrviUe and 10 miles north of Kerrville, La Grange, 



