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Coloration as in Z. favosa except that the hind legs are a little 

 paler brown and that the brownish tinge on the mesothorax is absent 

 or indistinct. 



Type: 9, Pinkham Notch, N. H., Aug. 23, 1951, H., M., and D. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63707). 



Paratype: 9, Stoneham, Que., June 21, 1938, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes) . 



6. Zatypota cingulata, new species 



Figure 325,b 



Front wing of male 3.2 to 4.4 mm. long, of female 3.7 to 4.4 mm. 

 long; clypeus unusually narrow; mesoscutum mat; metapleurum 

 subpolished; propodeum strongly mat; hind femur about 4.7 as long 

 as deep; nervulus usually distad of basal vein by about 0.3 its length; 

 third tergite strongly mat, its apical margin subpolished, its grooves 

 with fine longitudinal wrinkling. Structure otherwise as described 

 for Z. parva. 



Black. Lower rim of antennal socket usually brown; mouth parts, 

 scape and pedicel below, tegula, subtegular ridge, and hind corner of 

 pronotum, white; flagellum whitish basally below; front and middle 

 coxae and all trochanters, ivory; front and middle legs beyond tro- 

 chanters stramineous but in male their femora ivory; hind coxa ivory 

 to fulvous, usually pale fulvous basally and ivory apically, sometimes 

 brownish near base; hind femur varied with ivory and stramineous, 

 brownish at base; hind tibia white, its basal and apical 0.3 ± infuscate, 

 the basal 0.3 often only weakly infuscate or brownish; hind tarsus 

 brown, the segments darker at apex and pale basally; second through 

 fifth tergites usually whitish to light brown basad of basal transverse 

 groove. 



Figures 118-120. 



-Localities: 1 18 (left) , Zatypota exilis; 119 (center) , Z. cingulata; 

 120 (right), Z. arizonica. 



