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Figures 293-295. — Localities: 293 (left), Cryptohelcostizus chrysohothridis; 294 (center), 



C. nigricans; 295 (right), C. alamadensis. 



Black. Very narrow and somewhat interrupted front and hind 

 orbits, median part of clypeus, sometimes spot near base of mandible, 

 two median flagellar segments of female except below, narrow stripe 

 of variable length on upper margin of pronotum, sometimes small 

 spot on base of tegula, spot on under side of first front trochanter of 

 male, third and fourth segments of hind tarsus of male, and apical 

 0.3 of second segment of hind tarsus of male, white; labrum brown; 

 front legs beyond trochanters piceous; third segment of hind tarsus 

 of female brown; wings of male subhyaline, of female moderately 

 infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, the basal 0.82 of the first segment 

 black. 



Type: 9, Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., May 7, 1947, H. and 

 M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63840). 



Paratypes: cT, Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 24, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). cf , 9, Worlonan Creek, Sierra Ancha, 

 Ariz., Apr. 28, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 



7. Cryptohelcostizus alamedensis (AshmeacI) 



Cryptus alamedensis Ashmead, 1890, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, p. 409; ? . 



Type: ?, Alameda, Calif. (Washington). 

 Cryptohelcostizus rufigaster Cushman, 1919, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 55, p. 534; 



cf, ?. Type: 9, Harold, Calif. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 5.3 to 7.8 mm. long, of female 5.3 to 9.8 mm. 

 long; temple moderately convex, with very small punctures, on its 

 hind half the punctures rather sparse, elsewhere very sparse or absent; 

 punctures on mesopleurum separated by about 0.2 their diameter; 

 hairs on front face of hind femur moderately sparse in male, very 

 sparse in female, their sockets separated by about 1.0 the length of 

 the hairs in male, by about 2.0 the length of the hairs in female; 



