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medium-sized, rather strong punctures that are separated by about 

 0.2 their diameter; ovipositor sheath about 0.48 as long as front wing. 

 There are three subspecies, separable on color as keyed and de- 

 scribed below: 



1. Seventh tergite with a median apical white spot, except in some dwarf males 



(front wing 3.8 to 5.0 mm. long); second segment of hind tarsus usually 

 entirely white; range: Atlantic Ocean to Rocky Mountains in Canadian, 

 Transition, and Upper Austral zones. . . 8a. notata notata (Provancher) 

 Seventh tergite without a white spot; second segment of hind tarsus largely or 

 entirely brown or fulvous 2 



2. Tergite 6 black; range: British Columbia and Montana to Oregon (also New 



Jersey?) 8b. notata newcomeri (Cushman) 



Tergite 6 ferruginous; range: California . 8c. notata sierrae, nev/ subspecies 



8a. Aritranis notata notata (Provancher) 



Cryptus Belangeri Provancher, 1874, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 6, p. 177, 201; 



9. New synonymy. Type: 9, Quebec (lost). 

 Cryptus notatus Provancher, 1874, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 6, p. 177, 202; cT. 



Type: cf, Quebec (Quebec). 

 Cryptus elongatus Provancher, 1882, Naturaliste Canadien, vol, 13, p. 362 (Faune, 



p. 340); cf. Type: c?, Quebec (Quebec). 

 Oronotus albomaculatus Ashmead, 1896, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 23, p. 205; 



cf . Type: cf, Texas (Washington). 



Male: Head black, the side of face, short broad stripe on frontal 

 orbit, clypeus, and cheek, white, sometimes the face mostly or entirely 

 white and often the white on facial and frontal orbits narrowly con- 

 nected; mouth parts white, the apices of palpi brownish; antenna 

 black, the front of scape often marked with white; thorax black, the 

 collar, tegula, subtegular ridge, some or all of scutellum, and usually 

 the postscutellum, white; front and middle coxae entirely fulvous to 

 mostly white; front and middle trochanters white, often partly ful- 

 vous; front and middle femora and tibiae fulvous, the apex of femur 



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Figure 48. — Localities for 

 Aritranis notata notata. 



