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Hind coxa mostly fulvous with whitish above; femora uniformly 
pale fulvous; lower metapleuron coarsely and densely punc- 
tate to puncto-reticulate with numerous discrete punctures 
dorso-anteriad; propodeal dorsum behind basal trans-carina 
with abundant, mostly discrete coarse punctures, grading into 
puncto-reticulation only latero-apicad near cristae 
C. banchiformis (Megerle). 
4. Many segments in apical 1/3 of flagellum up to 1.4 as wide as 
long; first flagellomere 5.1 as long as deep at apex; malar 
space 0.88 as long as basal width of mandible; frontal horns 
on a high common base; mesoscutum with abundant large 
punctures but with no wrinkling along notauli, except api- 
cad, or on outer margins of lateral lobes; mesoscutum with 
a large, subcircular median white spot 
9. C. compacta (Cresson). 
Segments in apical 1/3 of flagellum averaging about as wide as 
long; first flagellomere 7.9 as long as deep at apex; malar 
space 0.46 as long as basal width of mandible; frontal horns 
on a very low common base, long and sharp; mesoscutum 
with moderately numerous medium sized punctures that be- 
come sparser mesad on lobes and with extensive transverse 
wrinkling all along notauli and on outer margins of lateral 
lobes; mesoscutum without a median white spot 
10. C. val/is n. sp. 
9. Cryptanura compacta (Cresson) 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 1 female, Bentsen Park, 14 III ’77. 
HABITAT: Clearing with Serjania vines and tall grass on bank of 
Rio Grande in Salix nigra- Celtis lindheimeri woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Texas to Honduras. 
PHAENOLOGY: Townes (1962, p. 429-30) records a female of 
compacta from “Cameron County, Texas, 3 August 1928”. 
10. Cryptanura vallis n. sp. 
(Fig. 8) 
Holotype: female, USA {Texas: Hidalgo County, Bentsen Rio 
Grande Valley State Park, 27 XII ’76, C. C. Porter). (Townes). 
