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Figures 49, SO. — Localities: 49 (left), Aritranis notata newcovieri; SO (right), A. n. sierrae 



8c. Aritranis notata sierrae, new subspecies 



Male: Head black, the facial orbit broadly, a narrow stripe on 

 frontal orbit, cheek, clypeus except marginally, and mouth parts, 

 white; antenna black, a small mark on front of scape white; thorax 

 black, the collar, tegula, small mark on subtegular ridge, and apex of 

 scutellum white; front and middle legs pale ferruginous, their tro- 

 chanters whitish and fifth tarsal segments light brown; hind leg fer- 

 ruginous, its tibia a little darkened apically, first two tarsal segments 

 fuscous, next two white, and last tarsal segment black; wings faintly 

 infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, black beyond the sixth tergite. 



Female : Black. Clypeus with a ferruginous stain ; mandible f usco- 

 ferruginous; palpi fuscous; antenna black, sometimes with upper side 

 of one of the median flagellar segments white; subtegular ridge and 

 sometimes collar, scutellum, and restricted areas on mesopleurum, 

 metapleurum, and propodeum, with ferruginous stains; tegula black- 

 ish; front and middle legs ferruginous, their fifth tarsal segments 

 brown; hind leg ferruginous, its tibia faintly darkened apically, its 

 fifth tarsal segment brownish ferruginous; wings wealdy infuscate; 

 abdomen ferruginous, the apical half of eighth tergite infuscate. 



Type: 9, Fish Camp, Calif., July 15, 1948, H., M., G., and D., 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63760). 



Paratypes: 9, Crane Flat, Yosemite Park, Calif., July 22, 1948, 

 H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). cf , same data as type but 

 dated July 12, 1948 (Townes). 



9. Aritranis imitator (Provancher), new combination 



Front wing 4.6 to 7.8 mm. long; clypeus weakly convex, with mod- 

 erately coarse, scattered punctures, its apical margin almost straight 

 but projecting medially as a tooth, impressed on each side of the mid- 



