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Tex., Feb. 26, 1953, J. Russell (Washington), cf, between Marfa 

 and Presidio, Tex., December 1951 to January 1952, J. H. Russell 

 and wife (Washington). 9, reared from borer in Agave stem, Presidio, 

 Tex., Mar. 7, 1951, J. H. Russell and wife (Washington). 9, Straw- 

 berry Daniel Pass, Utah, June 19, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes 

 (Townes). 



This species ranges from British Columbia to southern California 

 and western Texas. It has been reared from coleopterous borers in 

 desert and semidesert trees and shrubs. 



8. Cryptohelcostizus caudatus, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female type: Front wing 10.0 mm. long; temple wealdy convex, 

 dorsally, ventrally, and posteriorly with scattered small, rather weak 

 punctm-es, the rest almost impunctate; punctures on mesopleurum 

 crowded; hairs on front face of hind femur moderately dense, their 

 sockets separated by about 0.75 the length of the hairs; areolet 0.54 

 as high as radial cell, 1.07 as long as high; second abscissa of discocubi- 

 tal the same length as third abscissa; punctures on second tergite sepa- 

 rated by about 0.8 their diameter; ovipositor sheath 0.75 as long as 

 front wing. 



Black. Moderately wide front and hind orbits, most of cheek, 

 clypeus except marginally, labrum, base of mandible, markings on 

 palpi, mcomplete band covermg 2.5 flagellar segments, collar, upper 

 margin of pronotum, subtegular ridge, tegula except for its brown 

 apex, postscutellum, a pair of confluent spots on scutellum, sublateral 

 apical spot on propodeum, front coxa in front and at apex, apical 

 marks on middle coxa, median dorsal spot on hind coxa, and underside 

 of first trochanter of front and middle legs, white; second trochanters 

 fuscoferruginous; femora ferruginous, the front femur weakly infuscate 

 above; tibiae ferruginous, darkened above; front and middle tarsi 

 brownish ferruginous, their fifth segments brown; hind tarsus fuscous, 

 the second, third, and base of fourth segments whitish; wings faintly 

 infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, the basal 0.4 of fu-st segment infuscate. 



Type: 9, Lake Tahoe, Calif., Aug. 15, 1950, R. M. Bohart (Davis). 



9. Cryptohelcostizus ornatus Cushman 



Cryptohelcostizus ornatus Cushman, 1940, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 88, p. 359; 

 9. Type: 9, Death Valley, Calif. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 7.2 mm. long, of female 7.5 mm. long; temple 

 moderately convex, its hind half with fine, moderately sparse punc- 

 tures, the rest almost impunctate; punctures on mesopleurum sepa- 

 rated by about 0.3 their diameter; hairs on front face of hind femur 

 sparse, their sockets separated by about 3 times the length of the 



