ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPIINAE 



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side of scape and pedicel, basal half of flagellum, tegula except for a 

 yellow spot, front and middle legs beyond coxae except where noted 

 as yellow, hind trochanters, base of hind femur, and thorax at leg 

 attachments, light reddish-brown; front and middle coxae blackish 

 brown; hind femur, tibia, and tarsus dark brown except as described 

 otherwise; wings pale brown, the front 0.35 of front wing darker 

 brown. 



Type: 9, Chiricahua Mts., Ariz., July 4, 1940, L. C. Kuitert 

 (Lawrence). 



Id. Metopius Q?eltales) errantius californicus, new subspecies 



Figure 185,g 



Punctures on third tergite strongly crowded, separated by sharp 

 ridges. 



Male: Colored like the female except that yellow markings on 

 abdomen are a little less extensive. 



Female: Black. Interantennal process and adjacent mark on facial 

 shield, band along lateral and ventral edges of facial shield (narrowest 

 below), side of frons, lateral corner of labrum, under side of scape and 

 pedicel, second segment of maxillary palpus, broad upper edge of 

 pionotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, triangular mark below subtegular 

 ridge, narrow apices of front and middle femora, broad apex (especially 

 anteriorly and below) of hind femur, parts of first trochanters, front 

 faces of front and middle tibiae, scutellum except basally, post- 

 scutellum, a spot at apex of area dentipara, first tergite, apical 0.35 

 of second tergite (broader laterally), and third to sixth tergites except 

 for narrow basolateral stripe and a large median basal area, yellow; 

 part of mandible, upper side of scape and pedicel, basal half of 

 flagellum, and tinges on front and middle legs light reddish-brown; 



Figures 61—63. — Localities, species of Metopius {Peltales): 61 (left), errantius arizonicus; 

 62 (center), errantius californicus; 63 (right), notatus. 



