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diameter, the tergites with a broad, weak, postmedian transverse 

 impression basad of which they are weakly swollen; third tergite 

 about 0.72 as long as wide in male, about 0.63 as long as wide in 

 female; ovipositor sheath about 0.45 as long as abdomen. 



Figure 95. — Localities for 

 Zabrachypus primus. 



Black. Clypeus, mandible, and antenna dark brown; palpi and 

 tegula white; extreme hind corner of pronotum fulvous; front and 

 middle coxae light fulvous, often more or less whitish apically; 

 trochanters pale stramineous; front and middle femora fulvous, 

 their apices whitish; front and middle tibiae white or whitish, pale 

 fulvous below toward apex; front and middle tarsi stramineous or 

 light brown; hind coxa and femur fulvous, the apical margin of the 

 femur infuscate and the base of the coxa often brown; hind tibia 

 infuscate, with a broad, indefinitely limited, whitish subbasal band; 

 hind tarsus fuscous or brown, the basal half of its first segment 

 stramineous. In a male specimen from Wilton, N. Dak., the coxae 

 are blackish, the trochanters infuscate basally, and the pale band on 

 the hind tibia obsolescent. 



Specimens: 2c?, Edmonton, Alta., June 17, 1947, and July 22, 

 1947, E. H. Strickland (Townes). 39, Edmonton, Alta., July 6, 

 1940, and Aug. 4 and 24, 1947, E. H. Strickland (Townes). d 1 , 

 Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 21, 1947, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). 9, Merritt, B. C, Aug. 3, 1931, H. T. Peters (Lawrence). 

 49, Oliver, B. C, May 11, 15, 16, and 31, 1923, C. B. Garrett (Ottawa 

 and Townes). 2d 1 , Takoma Park, Md., May 6, 1943, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). 9 (type), Montana (Washington), cf, Flat 

 Rock, N. C, Aug. 23, 1939, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, John- 

 ston Co., N. C, June 16, 1949, H. Townes (Townes). tf 1 , Wilton, 

 N. Dak., June 4, 1939, H. S. Telford (St, Paul). 9, Summit Co., 

 Ohio, June 11, 1937, Louis J. Lipovsky (Lawrence). 9, Dunn Loring, 

 Va., Aug. 22, 1948, Karl V. Krombein (Townes). 9, Falls Church, 



