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4. Apical carina of propodeum complete or incomplete, if incomplete with not 

 more than its median 0.3 lacking; ovipositor sheath about 0.63 as long as 

 front wing; female flagellum with a white band. 



4. niibilipennis (Cresson) 



Apical carina of propodeum incomplete, its median 0.5 ± lacking; ovipositor 



sheath about 0.33 as long as front wing; female flagellum usually without a 



white band 5. agrili (Viereck) 



1. Xylophrunis sitkensis (Ashmead) 



Cryptoideus purpuripennis Ashmead, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 42; 

 9 . Misdetermination of Cryptus purpuripennis Cresson. 



Cryptoideus sitkensis Ashmead, 1902, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 4, p. 193; 

 9. Type: 9 , Sitka, Alaska (Washington) . 



Cryptoideus purpuripennis Cushman, 1919, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 55, p. 539; 

 9 . Misdetermination of Cryptus purpuripennis Cresson. 



Xylophrunis atroruber Townes, 1944, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 11, p. 290. New 

 name for Cryptoideus purpuripennis of Ashmead and Cushman. New syn- 

 onymy. Type: 9, Santa Cruz Mts., Calif. (Washington). 



Front wing 6.2 to 10.0 mm. long; head about 0.88 as wide across 

 temples as across eyes; temple with coarse, close punctures that are 

 somewhat confluent in rows ; fourth segment of female flagellum about 

 2.4 as long as wide; apical carina of propodeum complete; second 

 tergite moderately mat, with moderate-sized punctures that are 

 separated by about 0.5 their diameter; ovipositor sheath about 0.50 

 as long as front wing; teeth on apex of ovipositor moderately close. 



Brownish fulvous. Head more or less black but at least the clypeus 

 and orbits fulvous; antenna black, the front of first segment of male 

 antenna fulvous, the front of first three segments of female antenna 

 fulvous; palpi fuscous; thoracic sutures very narrowly to broadly 

 black, or sometimes the thorax mostly black and with only small 

 fulvous areas; wings weakly to strongly suffused with brown, some- 

 times faintly banded; abdomen of male with more or less of basal 



Figure 266. — Localities for 

 Xylophrurus sitkensis. 



