1985] 
Porter — Cosmiocryptus 
479 
Fig. 6. Cosmiocryptus violaceipennis, $. SEM Photograph (50X), showing 
pronotum and most of mesoscutum in dorsal view. 
male. Color: flagellum with white band beginning on segments 
9 or 10 and ending on segments 14, 15, or 16; scape sometimes with 
a large white spot below or sometimes completely dark; clypeus 
varying from wholly black to mostly white; sometimes with a pair of 
white spots mesad on pronotal collar; sometimes a white spot on 
tegula; scutellum sometimes with a white spot; fore coxae and/or 
trochanters sometimes extensively white; fore and mid legs some- 
times more conspicuously reddish brown than in female; hind tar- 
someres 3-4 sometimes partly white. 
Length of fore wing: 8.7-10.6 mm. First flagellomere: 3. 7-4. 5 as 
long as deep at apex. Tyloids: at least the 2nd (counting from base 
of flagellum), and usually the 1st and 3rd also, broadly oval. Tem- 
ple: 0.6-0. 7 as long as eye in dorsal view. First gastric tergite: post- 
petiole 0.9- 1.4 as wide apically as long from spiracle to apex. 
new specimens examined. 5? and 6$\ PERU, Lima Prov- 
ince, San Geronimo, Valle del Rio Santa Eulalia, 28-VI-1976, C. 
