pepsinae: tribe pepsini 



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9 , Mesilla, N. Mex., June 30, 1897, A. P. Morse (Washington). 9 , 

 Corvallis, Oreg., July 12, 1925, D. A. Wilbur (Corvallis). 



This species occurs in southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 and at Corvallis, Oreg. 



4. Cryptocheilus attenuatum Banks 



Cryptocheilus attenuaius Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 8, cf. Type: cT, New 

 Braunfels, Tex. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 7 to 8 mm. long; front view of clypeus with apex 

 truncate or weakly concave; apex of sixth sternite semicircularly 

 emarginate; subgenital plate tongue-shaped, somewhat narrowed 

 apically, broadly tectate, the median longitudinal ridge with a crest 

 of curved hairs; apical margin of subgenital plate with a fringe of long 

 slender hairs, just dorsad of which is a fringe of short bristles. Colora- 

 tion as in the female. 



Figure 35. — Localities for Cryptocheilus attenuatum. 



Female: Forewing 7.5 to 11 mm. long; clypeus in side view rather 

 strongly convex, in front view with the apex moderately concave; 

 mandible (when not eroded) about 0.85 as long as the width of the 

 clypeus, its apical tooth very broad. 



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

 segment somewhat infuscate basally; wings orange-yellow, the apical 

 0.18 ± of the forewing and the apex of the hind wing blacldsh. 



Specimens (11 cf, 52 9): From Colorado (Fort Collins); Iowa 

 (Sergeant Bluff) ; Kansas (Baldwin, Carleton, Clay County, Clark 

 County, Dickinson County, Ford County, Franklin County, Law- 

 rence, Manhattan, Marshall County, Miami Count}^, Morton County, 

 Onaga, Osborne County, Rush County, Russell Coimty, and Wabaun- 

 see County) ; Louisiana (TaUulah) ; Tennessee (Knoxville) ; and Texas 



