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basal part of scutellum, often the postscutellum, often a small spot 

 at apex of area dentipara, first trochanter more or less, apex of femora 

 (more broadly in front), apical 0.4 of first tergite, often small apical 

 corners of second tergite, apical 0.3 of third tergite, apical 0.2 of 

 fourth tergite (wider laterally), and apical 0.12 of fifth tergite (some- 

 times interrupted medially), yellow; upper side of scape and pedicel 

 and under side of flagellum light reddish brown, the flagellum shading 

 to blackish beyond the middle; legs light brown to blackish brown, 

 the front legs palest and the hind legs darkest; wings subhyaline, the 

 front wings infuscate anteriorly, especially in the radial cell. 



Specimens: 9 (type), Gaylord, Mich. (East Lansing). 9, Itasca, 

 Minn., July 1908 (Cambridge). 9, Lakehurst, N. J., July 3, 1909, J. 

 Bequaert (Cambridge). o\ reared from Geometridae, Algonquin 

 Park, Ont,, Sept. 6, 1945 (Townes). 29, Dunn Loring, Va., Aug. 7 

 and 21, 1949, K. V. Krombein (Townes). 



This subspecies is in the Carolinian and Alleghenian faunas. 



lb. Metopius (Peltales) errantius floridanus, new subspecies 



Figure 185,e 



Female type: Similar to the female of M. errantius errantius ex- 

 cept that the blackish areas in center of frons, side of thorax, pro- 

 podeum beyond its basal transverse carina, tegula, legs except on 

 hind coxa and femur, and abdomen are brown rather than blackish. 

 Also, the basal half of the antenna is paler brown than in M. errantius 

 errantius. 



Type: 9, taken in dense woods, Alachua Co., Fla., June 24, 1954, 

 H. A. Denmark (Washington, USNM 63623). 



lc. Metopius (Peltales) errantius arizonicus, new subspecies 



Figure 185,f 



Female type: Punctures on third tergite strongly crowded, sep- 

 arated by sharp ridges. 



Black. Interantennal process and adjacent mark on facial shield, 

 band along lateral edge of facial shield, side of frons, under side of 

 scape and pedicel, upper edge of pronotum, subtegular ridge and a 

 vertical stripe below it, narrow apices of femora (widened on the front 

 side), front face of fore tibia and front stripe on middle tibia not 

 reaching the apex, part of middle and hind first trochanters, apex 

 and laterobasal part of scutellum, postscutellum, spot at apex of 

 area dentipara, apical 0.8 of first tergite, apicolateral corner of second 

 tergite, apical 0.4 of third tergite, apical 0.35 of fourth tergite (broad- 

 ened laterally), apical 0.3 of fifth tergite (much broadened laterally), 

 and lateral spot on sixth tergite, yellow; mandible medially, upper 



