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Calif., Sept. 2, 1955, D. J. Ott (Townes). 9, Mescalero Indian 

 Reservation, White Mts., Otero Co., N. Mex., June 15 to 30, 1927, 

 O. C. Poling (Ann Arbor). 



This species has been collected in British Columbia, California, and 

 New Mexico. 



Figures 85, 86. — Localities: 85 (left), Clistopyga manni; 86 (right), C. recurva. 



7. Clistopyga recurva (Say) 



Figure 332,b 



Anomalon recurvus Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 243 (Leconte 



ed., vol. 2, p. 698) ; d\ ?. Types: d", 9 (destroyed). 

 Clistopyga annulipes Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 150; 9 • 



Type: 9, Massachusetts (Philadelphia). 

 Clistopyga pulchripicla Ashmead, 1890, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 12, p. 448; 9 • 



New synonymy. Type: 9 , Texas (Washington). 



Front wing of male 3.5 to 6.5 mm. long, of female 4.3 to 8.8 mm. 

 long; body, especially the thorax, narrow and long; temple of male 

 without a transverse ridge near lower corner of eye; epomia short; 

 metapleurum polished, its hind half with sparse scattered punctures 

 and faintly wrinkled; submetapleural carina complete; propodeum 

 long, moderately convex longitudinally, strongly convex transversely, 

 medially with fine transverse wrinkling, elsewhere smooth, its punc- 

 tures fine and sharp, the median longitudinal carina lacking; hind 

 tibia of female about 0.92 as long as hind femur; hind tarsus very 

 long; first tergite about 1.6 as long as wide in male, about 1.2 as long 

 as wide in female, its median longitudinal carina distinct on its basal 

 0.5; second tergite with rather fine oblique punctures; ovipositor 

 moderately stout, its basal 0.7 straight, its apical 0.3 strongly upcurved 

 (fig. 332,b). 



Male: Black. Face, clypeus, orbit of frons and at top of eye, 

 cheek, mandible except apex, maxilla, labium, under side of scape and 



