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Figures 53, 54. — Localities: 53 (left), Metopius {Cultrarius) consector; 54 (right), M. (C.) 



rufipes. 



Type: d\ Columbia, Mo., Sept. 27, 1938, W. S. Craig (Washington 

 USNM 63620). 



Paratypes: d 1 , "at sugar," Fort Collins, Colo., Sept 26, 1894, C. 

 F. Baker (Washington) 9, Riley Co., Kans., Marlatt (Washington), 

 cf, "Reno, western Kans., Oct. 4, Lautz" (Cambridge). d\ Olmsted 

 Co., Minn., C. N. Ainslie (Townes). 9, West Point, Nebr., Septem- 

 ber 1887 (Philadelphia). d\ Nebraska (Washington). 9, Martin, 

 S. Dak., Sept. 15, 1931, H. C. Severin (Townes). 9, Glencarlyn, Va., 

 Oct. 4, N. Banks (Cambridge). 



This species ranges from the Atlantic to Colorado, in the upper 

 Austral zone. Adults occur in fall. 



6. Metopius (Cultrarius) rufipes Crcsson, new combination 



Metopius rufipes Cresson, 1865, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 4, p. 270; 9 • 

 Type: ?, Colorado (Philadelphia). 



Female: Front wing 8.5 to 10.3 mm. long; facial shield about 1.2 

 as high as wide, with a strong median longitudinal carina, with coarse 

 punctures and scattered smaller punctures on the interspaces, the in- 

 terspaces about 0.6 the diameter of coarse punctures; wider segments 

 of flagellum about 3.0 as wide as long; galea elongate, not as long as 

 in M. ultimatus and many other species of Cultrarius but longer than 

 in M. xanthostigma, projecting about 0.7 as long as mandible, with 

 rather few setae, these denser apically and along the edges; glossa 

 long, projecting beyond galea but a little shorter and stouter than in 

 M. ultimatus and many other species of the subgenus Cultrarius; 

 second segment of maxillary palpus swollen, a little flattened, about 

 2.0 as long as wide; punctures on mesopleurum and metapleurum 

 coarse, those on mesopleurum separated by about 0.7 their diameter, 

 those on metapleurum separated by about 1.5 their diameter; prepectal 



