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hind tibia and tarsus dark brown, the tibia with an external basal 

 yellow spot; wings pale brown, the front 0.35 of front wing darker 

 brown. 



Type: 9, Fish Camp, Calif., July 14, 1948, JEL, M., G., and D. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63624). 



Paratype: d\ 17 miles west of Chemult, Klamath Co., Oreg., July 

 25, 1955, G. ft. Ferguson (Townes). 



2. Metopius (Peltales) notatus, new species 



Figure 185,h 



Female type: Front wing 7 mm. long; facial shield 1.05 as high as 

 wide, its point rather close to margin of clypeus; interantennal process 

 1.0 as high as wide, dorsally quite free from frons; frons with rather 

 indistinct small punctures and a median swelling; wider flagellar 

 segments about 2.0 as wide as long; second segment of maxilla apically 

 globular; punctures on mesopleurum rather small, separated by about 

 1.5 their diameter; first tergite in profile 2.0 as long as high, very 

 weakly rounded above; third and fourth tergites with a median carina; 

 third to fifth tergites with strong oblique grooves in their lateral 

 faces; apex of sixth tergite deflexed medially to make a broad, weak, 

 median emargination. 



Brownish black. Head and mouthparts except for margins of 

 mandible, frons above each antennal socket, area including ocelli and 

 reaching top of eye, back of head except for broad posterior orbits 

 and transverse band below hind ocelli, under side of scape and pedicel, 

 pronotum except for longitudinal area paralleling but distant from its 

 upper margin, propleurum laterally, parallel longitudinal stripes on 

 mesoscutum joined by a transverse bar near hind edge of mesoscutum, 

 apical half and lateral basal part of scutellum, postscutellum, sub- 

 tegular swelling, area covering most of mesopleurum and joined pos- 

 teriorly with a longitudinal mark beneath sternaulus, small submedian 

 posterior spot on mesosternum, most of upper division of metapleurum, 

 lower division of metapleurum except in its lower front area and 

 marginally (the dark lower front area enclosing a small yellow spot), 

 propodeum except basally in spiracular area and in third median 

 area, front and middle legs except for large mark on femora behind 

 (not reaching their bases and apices), U-shaped mark on hind coxa 

 above, hind trochanters except first trochanter basally, hind femur 

 except for its front and hind faces, hind tibia and tarsus, first tergite 

 except basally, apical 0.4 of second through fourth tergites, apical 0.35 

 of fifth tergite, apical 0.3 of sixth tergite, and apical band on seventh 

 tergite, yellow, the yellow on tergites extending forward laterally; 

 tegula brownish yellow centrally; wings tinged with yellowish brown. 



Type: 9, Pyriton, Ala., H. H. Smith (Washington, USNM 63625). 



