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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 



PART 3 



Figures 296-298. — Localities: 296 (left), Cryptohelcostizus caudatus; 297 (center), 

 C. ornatus; 298 (right), C. maculosus. 



hairs; areolet about 0.65 as high as the radial cell, about 1.1 as long 

 as high; second abscissa of discocubital about 1.5 as long as third 

 abscissa; punctures on second tergite separated by about 0.8 their 

 diameter; ovipositor sheath 0.40 as long as front wing. 



Black. Broad orbit (with a narrow interruption at top and bottom 

 of eye), clypeus except lateral and apical margins, often spot on 

 mandible, incomplete white band on female flagellum that covers 1.5 

 to 3 segments, collar, stripe on upper margin of pronotum, sometimes 

 stripe on lower margin of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, apex of 

 scutellum, postscutellum, small median spot on propodeum of female, 

 and moderately large apical sublateral spot on propodeum, white; 

 front side of front coxa and outer side of front and middle coxae of 

 female, white, both female coxae with a vertical fuscous stripe on 

 outer side that divides the white; front and middle first trochanters 

 of female white, brown above; front and middle legs beyond first 

 trochanters ferruginous; hind coxa with a large white spot above; 

 hind femur fuscoferruginous in male, ferruginous in female; hind 

 tibia fuscous in male, ferruginous in female; hind tarsus brown, in 

 female its third and fourth segments whitish; wings hyalme; abdomen 

 ferruginous, the first segment with all but the apical 0.25 black. 



Specimens: cf , Sahuarito, Ariz., Apr. 11, 1947, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). 9 (type), reared from Chrysobothris deserta in desert holly, 

 Death Valley, CaUf., Feb. 23, 1939, M. F. Gihnan (Washington). 



10. Cryptohelcostizus maculosus, new species 



Figure 33 8, g 

 Male: Unknown. 



Female: Front wing 7.4 to 9.2 mm. long; temple rather convex, its 

 hind 0.4 ± with weak, rather sparse punctures, the rest impunctate; 



