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Figure 34. — Localities for Cryptocheilus pallidipenne. 



3. Cryptocheilus pallidipenne (Banks) 



Priocnemoides (!) pallidipennis Banks, 1911. Journ. New York Eut. Soc, vol. 

 19, p. 236, [9 ]. Type: ? , Tucson, Ariz. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 8 to 9 mm. long; clypeiis in front view with its 

 apex moderately concave; median notch of sixth sternite deeply 

 U-shaped; subgenital plate tongue-shaped, somewhat convex but 

 without a median ridge; apical margin of subgenital plate with a 

 fringe of short stout hairs. Coloration as in the female. 



Female: Forewing 8 to 10 mm. long; clypeus in side view rather 

 strongly convex, in front view with the apex strongly and broadly 

 arcuately concave; mandible (when not eroded) about 0.75 as long 

 as the clypeus is wide, its apical tooth moderately broad. 



Black. Body pubescence dark gray; flagellum orange, its first 

 segment infuscate basally; wings orange-3^ellow, the apical 0.21 db of 

 the forewing and the apical margin of the hind wing fuscous. 



Specimens: 9, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., July 9, 1941, E,. H, 

 Beamer (Lawrence). 9 , Tempe, Ariz., Aug. 15, D. K. Duncan 

 (Krombein). 9 (type), Tucson, Ariz., F. H. Snow (Cambridge), 

 cf, 9, Tucson, Ariz., F. H. Snow (Townes). 9, Walnut, Ariz., 

 June 30, 1936, E. S. Ross (San Francisco), cf , Blythe, Calif., May 19, 

 1947,E. G.Linsley (Berkeley). 4 cf, Brawlej-, Calif., Aug. 9, 1914, 

 J. C, Bradley (Ithaca and Cambridge), cf, 9, Calexico, Calif., 

 August (Cambridge). 99, Imperial County, Calif., May and June, 

 1911, J. C. Bridwell (Washington). 5 cf , Imperial County, Calif., 

 April, May, and June, 1911, J. C. Bridwell (Washington). 9, 

 Ripley, Calif., Aug. 19, 1946, J. W. MacSwain (Berkeley). 29, 

 Seeley, Calif., July 17, 1940, E. E. Kenaga (St. Paul and Lawrence). 



