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PART 3 



Figures 238-240. — Localities: 238 (left), Cryptanura hanchiformis ; 239 (center), 

 C. septentrionalis; 240 (right), C. compacta. 



of a high tubercle ; second tergite completely polished, with irregular, 

 rather weak punctures that are separated by about 2.5 their diameter. 



Black. Head, thorax, hind coxa, and abdomen marked with 

 yellowish white as in figure 337, a; flagellum with a broad white band; 

 mesoscutum with a median subcircular, white spot; front and middle 

 coxae whitish, blacldsh at base behind; front and middle trochanters 

 whitish, the middle fu-st trochanter black dorsall}^; hind first tro- 

 chanter fuscous, apically whitish; hind second trochanter whitish, 

 apically fuscous; front and middle legs beyond trochanters stramineous, 

 their femora brown or black above and their tarsi brownish apically; 

 hind femur stramineous, with a posterodorsal and posteroventral 

 brown stripe, the upper and lower brown stripes joined on hind face 

 of femur at base and apex; hind tibia and tarsus stramineous (apical 

 two segments missing from hind tarsus of specimen at hand). 



Specimen: 9, Cameron Co., Tex., Aug. 3, 1928, R. H. Beamer 

 (Lawrence). 



This species ranges from southern Texas to Honduras. 



26. Chamiila, new genus 



Figure 321, a 



Front wing 7.8 to 9.5 mm. long; body rather slender; frons with 

 a stout, median, conical horn; clypeus wide and short, strongly con- 

 vex, its apex broadly truncate, without a median point, mesoscutum 

 polished, strongly convex, its punctures coarse, strong, irregularly 

 spaced, rather sparse to moderately dense; notaulus sharp and strong, 

 reaching beyond center of mesoscutum; epomia strong; propodeum 

 moderately long, its basal carina sharp and complete, its apical carina 

 present only as a pair of sublateral crests; propodeal spiracle elliptic; 



