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Figures 136-139. — Localities: 136 (left), Lanugo schlingeri; 137 (center, left), L. cestus; 

 138 (center, right), L. ferrugata; 139 (right), L. retentor. 



medially and laterally, sublaterally elevated as a short rather strong 

 crest; second tergite strongly mat, with fine adjacent punctures; 

 ovipositor tip as in L. deserti (fig. 329,d). 



Ferruginous. Flagellum rather dark brown, especially apically, 

 with a median whitish band covering about 5.5 segments; much or 

 all of prepectus, more or less of mesepimeron and surrounding areas, 

 and of grooves at bases of scutellum and propodeum, median mark 

 on mesosternum, edge of mesopleurum next to middle coxa, meta- 

 sternum and its margins, and basal 0.4 ± of thu-d tergite, black; hind 

 tarsus yellowish white, fulvous near base and apex; \vings subhyaline, 

 the front wing with fuscous bands as in figure 342, the apex of hind 

 wing weakly infuscate; base of first abdominal segment sometimes 

 partly infuscate; basal 0.2 to 0.45 of second tergite more or less in- 

 fuscate. 



Type: 9, on Salix tree, Victoria, Tex., June 13, 1911, J. D. Mitchell 

 (Washington, USNM 63786). 



Paratypes: 9, reared from pupa under bark of Salix tree, collected 

 Dec. 24, 1915, emerged Apr, 2, 1916, Faries Kanch, Maverick Co., 

 Tex., J. D. Mitchell (Washington). 9, Hopkins Co., Tex., Oct. 22, 

 1939 (Townes). cf, Victoria, Tex., May 2, 1910, J. D. Mitchell 

 (Townes). 9, Zapata Co., Tex., April 1936, S. Mulaik (St. Paul). 



4. Lanugo retentor (Brulle), new combination 



FiGURjss 329,c; 343 



Cryptus retentor Brull6, 1846, in Lepeletier, Histoire naturelle des insectes, hy- 

 m6nopteres, vol. 4, p. 192; ?. Type: ?, Carolina (Paris). 



Cryptus comalensis Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 159; 9. 

 Type: 9, Comal Co., Tex. (Philadelphia). 



Cryptus nigripennis Ashmead, 1890, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, p. 411; 9. 

 Type: 9, New Jersey (Washington). 



