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white stripe that covers 3.7 to 4.7 segments; range: western Texas to 

 southern California, southward into Mexico. 



3a. calipterus calipterus (Say) 

 Yellow markings on wings less extensive, the apical yellow area on front 

 wing usually not reaching subdiscoidal vein (fig. 360) ; flagellum with 

 median dorsal white stripe reduced, obscure, or sometimes absent, cover- 

 ing usually about 3 segments; range: California except part of southern 

 California 3b. calipterus brevicornis Cameron 



3a. Compsocryptus calipterus calipterus (Say) 



Figure 359 



Cryptus calipterus Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 234 (Leconte ed., 



vol. 2, p. 690); ? . Type: 9 , Mexico (destroyed). 

 Cryptus fulvus Taschenberg, 1876, Zeitschr. Ges. Naturwiss., vol. 48, p. 66; c?". 



New synonymy. Type: cf, Mexico (Halle). 

 Ichneumon munerosus Cameron, 1885, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, 



Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 159; d^. New synonym}\ Type: cf, northern 



Sonora, Mexico (London). 

 Cryptus (Mansa?) politicalypterus Mereck, 1905, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 



vol. 19, p. 293; cf. Type: cf , Bill Williams Fork, Ariz. (Lawrence). 



Average size a little smaller than in the subspecies brevicornis 

 and flagellar segments averaging slightly longer, the second segment 

 of female flagellum about 3.3 as long as wide. 



Ground color fulvoferruginous. Male flagellum with its basal 

 two-thirds fulvous or brownish fulvous, the first segment often in- 

 fuscate above; midlength of male flagellum with an indistinct pale 

 fulvous or yellowish band ; female flagellum fuscous or dark brown, its 

 first three segments fulvous to fuscofulvous, its median part with a 

 white stripe above that covers 3.7 to 4.7 segments; fuscous areas on 

 head and thorax of male averaging less extensive than in subspecies 

 brevicornis; yellow areas on wings more extensive than in subspecies 

 brevicornis, the apical yellow area on front wing reaching subdiscoidal 

 vein and basal transverse fuscous band on front wing relatively 

 narrow. 



Specimens (90 cT, 58 9): From Arizona (Apache and 8 miles north- 

 east of Apache in Cochise Co. at 5,000 ft., Arlington, Avra Valley, 

 Bowie, Douglas, Duncan, 10 miles southwest of Eloy, Hereford, 

 Huachuca Mts., Maricopa Mts., Oak Creek Canyon, Patagonia on 

 Soncita Creek, Phoenix, Portal at 5,000 ft., and 5 miles west of Portal 

 at 5,400 ft., Roosevelt Dam, near Roosevelt Lake, San Bernardino 

 Ranch in Cochise Co, at 3,750 ft., San Carlos, Sunnyside Canj^on in 

 Huachuca Mts., Tempe, Theba, 10 miles south of Toltec in Pinal Co., 

 Tucson, and Yuma) ; Cahfornia (Blythe, Cajon Pass in San Bernardino 

 Co., Calexico, 12 miles east of Heber, Indio, and Pinon Flat in San 

 Jacinto Mts,); New Alexico (Las Cruces, Rodeo, Skelton Canyon 



