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Cambridge. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univer- 
sity, Cambridge, MASS 02138. 
college station. Department of Entomology, Texas A & M 
University, College Station, TX 77843. 
Gainesville. Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Bureau of 
Entomology, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department 
of Agriculture and Consumer Services, P. O. Box 1269, 1911 
SW 34th Street, Gainesville FI 32602. 
Lawrence. Department of Entomology, Snow Entomological 
Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. 
Ottawa. Canadian National Collection, Biosystematics Research 
Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa K1 A 06C, CANADA. 
porter. Collection of Charles C. Porter, 301 North 39th Street, 
McAllen, TX 78501. 
townes. American Entomological Institute, c/o Dr. Virendra 
Gupta, Bureau of Entomology, Division of Plant Industry, 
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 
Gainesville, FI 32602. 
Genus CHROMOCRYPTUS 
Chromocryptus Ashmead, 1900. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 23: 41. Type: ( Chromocryp- 
tus albopictus Ashmead) = planosae (Fitch). 
Mesostenimorpha Viereck, 1913. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 44 : 566. Type: ( Cryptus 
nebraskensis Ashmead) =planosae (Fitch). 
Fore wing 3.4-9. 1 mm long. Coloration usually black, red, and 
white (occasionally mostly red) with hyaline to moderately dusky 
wings. Flagellum moderately long and slender, a little flattened 
below toward apex in female, in male with some segments bearing 
sharp and linear longitudinal tyloids, its 1st segment 3. 7-6. 2 as long 
as deep at apex. Mandible rather short and broad with lower tooth 
often a little shorter than the upper. Clypeus in profile asymmetri- 
cally to symmetrically pyramidal, often nasute; its apical margin 
edentate. Occipital carina sharp and narrow, usually sinuate later- 
ally, reaching the weakly to moderately raised hypostomal carina 
below. Malar space 0.50-1.0 as long as basal width of mandible. 
Pronotum a little swollen on dorsal margin and with the sub- 
marginal groove vague or absent to shallowly defined; epomia sharp 
