1985] 
Porter — Cosmiocryptus 
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Fig. 1 . Cosmiocryptus occidens, Paratype. Lateral view of whole insect, show- 
ing color pattern and habitus. 
following mostly pure white ornamentation: orbital ring, broken 
only at bottom of eye; blotch in malar space (sometimes merging 
with hind orbital band); broad band on pronotal collar; sometimes 
blotch on anterior-ventral margin of pronotum near mid-height; 
broad line on dorsal margin of pronotum near mid-height; broad 
line on dorsal margin of pronotum, interrupted only in front 
between bases of notauli; about outer 0.5 to almost all of tegula; 
sometimes small triangular spot on each anterior corner of scutel- 
lum; sometimes pair of tiny dots on postscutellum; tips of propodeal 
cristae; and a tiny dot on subalarum; 1st gastric tergite red with 
some faint dusky staining that becomes darker near base; 2nd tergite 
dull red with slight dusky staining; 3rd tergite dull red and more or 
less conspicuously dusky tinged, sometimes grading into blackish on 
apical 0.3 and throughout laterad; 4th tergite black with some red- 
dish basally or sometimes mostly red and always with a very broad 
white apical band which becomes even broader laterad; 5th and 6th 
tergites black with a very broad white apical band; succeeding ter- 
gites black with extensive, irregular white markings; legs red, duller 
on tibiae and tarsi, sometimes with a tiny white dot near base on 
hind coxa; wings hyaline with fore wing faintly brownish tinged. 
Length of fore wing: 7.0-7. 1 mm. First flagellomere: 6. 8-7. 7 as 
long as deep at apex. Clypeus: rather high, strongly blunt-pyramidal 
in profile; apical margin very weakly convex. Malar space: 1.0 as 
long as basal width of mandible. Temple: 0.23-0.33 as long as eye in 
dorsal view; precipitously receding and slightly rounded off. 
Cephalic carinae. occipital carina sharp but scarcely raised; hypo- 
stomal carina only slightly higher than occipital. Fore tibia: rather 
