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polished and rather sparsely punctured; succeeding segmentsdistinctly punctured, 

 the punctures almost adjoining and giving a dullish appearance ; the apical segments 

 not so punctured, rather indistinctly punctured ; exserted portion of ovipositor as 

 long as the abdomen less the first segment, the sheaths shorter. Inconspicuously 

 covered with fine silvery pubescence. Black; face almost entirely yellowish, two 

 brown spots on each side of the clypeus, mandibles brownish at apical half, front, 

 vertex, occipital margin of white, scape brownish with a yellowish spot be- 

 neath, flagellum black or nearly, except the sixth joint all but at base, seventh, 

 eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh joints entirely and twelfth joint at base pure white 

 or nearly white; a broad band on the superior margin of prothorax, not uniting 

 anteriorly, collar, coxsb and first trochanter of anterior legs, tegulse, extreme base 

 of wings, spot beneath wing insertion, polished convex area of mesopleura, a 

 broad oblique band extending from very near the anterior border of the meso- 

 pleura to the posterior border, joining the pale color of mesosternum, from which 

 it is separated only anteriorly by the brownish of the cryptine groove, meso- 

 sternum almost entirely, except the fine median brownish groove, scutellum, part 

 of postecutellum, a lunate mark between insertion of posterior wings and meta- 

 thorax, posterior thirds of metanotum with a trilobed mark, the anterior lobe oc- 

 cupying the middle of the middle third, ^. e., between the transverse carinas, 

 the posterior lobes and body of the mark occupying nearly all of the posterior 

 face of the metanotum, metapleura almost entirely, coxae and first trochanter of 

 medial legs, coxaj of posterior legs, except a large mark internally, a smaller 

 mark externally, and a longitudinal, sharply defined band posteriorly, first ab- 

 dominal segment at base and apex, the succeeding segments with a more or less 

 narrow lateral margin and a broad apical margin, margins of ventral segments 

 more or less, posterior legs with the metatarsus, except basal half, second and 

 third tarsal joints entirely, fourth tarsal joint, except at apex, white; otherwise 

 the legs are brownish testaceous, except the apical tarsal joints which are more 

 or less brown, and the claws which are dark brown. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality : Douglas county, Kansas, 900 

 feet, at Rock Creek. Roy L. Moodie. 



Cryptus (Callicryptus) calipterus Say. 



Male. — Differs from Callicryptus as follows: Transverse median nervure of 

 posterior wings broken near the middle, only one transverse carina present, the 

 upper hind angles of metathorax not toothed, fourth tarsal joint not strongly 

 emarginate or bilobed. 



Clark county, Kansas, 1962 feet. June, 1903, F, H. Snow. 



Cryptus (Itamoplex) americanus Cresson. 



Male. — Douglas county, Kansas, 900 feet. June, 1892, W. J. Coleman. 



Cryptus citrinimaculatus, n. sp. 



Superficially like C. (Itamoplex) americanus, and, judging from the descrip- 

 tion, very like mellicoxus. 



Male. — Length, 9mm. Head rather broad; face dullish, closely sculptured, 

 distance between posterior ocelli greater than distance between lateral ocellus, 

 about equal to the distance between the lateral ocellus and nearest eye margin; 

 malar space equal in height to the width of the mandibles at base; cheeks shin- 

 ing, with minute well-separated punctures; antennge thirty-five jointed, scape 

 and pedicellum together distinctly shorter than the first joint of the flagellum, 

 about equal to the length of the second joint. Thorax almost uniformly dullish 

 and rugulose, punctate, the punctures of the dorsulum well separated, small and to 

 some extent indistinct, anteriorly the dorsulum is closely, indistinctly sculptured ; 



