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Specimens: 9, Dallas, Ga., Dec. 9, 1945, P. W. Fattig (Washington). 

 9, Willard, Mo., March 15, A. E. Brower (Ithaca). 29, Maniunuskin, 

 N.J., Apr. 22, 1901, and Oct. 21, 1901 (Washington). 9, Aberdeen, 

 N.C., Apr. 9, 1926, M. H. Davis (Raleigh), cf , Conover, N.C., Oct. 

 8, 1919, J. E. Eckert (Washington). 9, Council, N.C., May 16, 1940, 

 D. L. Wray (Townes). 9, Lumberton, N.C., Oct. 27, 1949, Rabb 

 and Townes (Townes). 9, Page Lake, N.C., Oct. 27, 1949, Rabb and 

 Townes (Townes). 9, Southern Pines, N.C., October 1955, H. Townes 

 (Townes), cT, 9, Texas (St. Paul). 9, Virginia Beach, Va., October 

 18, Jones, Walker, and Brannon (Washington), cf , Belfrage collec- 

 tion (Washington). 



This species is found in the Austroriparian fauna. Adults have 

 been collected in the spring and fall. In our experience, they fly 

 among grasses and interspersed bushes in scrub oak and pine savanna 

 country. 



2. Cryptohelcostizus leiomerus, new species 



Female type: Front wing 11 mm. long; temple almost flat, with 

 almost no hairs on its front half, with rather sparse hairs on its hind 

 half; punctures on mesopleurum separated by about 0.4 their diam- 

 eter; hairs on front face of hind femur sparse, their sockets separated 

 by about 2.0 the length of the hairs; areolet large, 0.74 as high as 

 radial cell, 1.1 as long as high; second abscissa of discocubital 1.4 

 as long as third abscissa; punctures on second tergite separated by 

 about 1.3 their diameter; ovipositor sheath 0.43 as long as front 



wing. 



Black. Very narrow frontal and facial orbits, narrow hind orbit, 

 and transverse mark on clypeus, whitish; front tibia reddish brown 

 below; wings black; abdomen ferruginous. The flagellum of the type 



Figures 289-292. — Localities: 289 (left), Cryptohelcostizus dickrous; 290 (center, left), 

 C. leiomerus; 291 (center, right), C. genalis; 292 (right), C. fumipennis. 



