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with brown apically; flagellum fulvous, shaded to fulvous brown 

 apically. 



Specimen: cf (type), Nevada (Philadelphia). 



3. Metopius (Cuitrarins) seapulatus, new species 



Figure 184,e 



Male type: front wing 9 mm. long; facial shield about 1.0 as high 

 as wide, with a median longitudinal carina; wider segments of flagel- 

 lum about 2.6 as wide as long; second segment of maxillary palpus 

 about 0.33 as wide as long, not distinctly flattened. Otherwise 

 structurally similar to M. pectinatus. 



Black, the basal half of abdomen stained with ferruginous and the 

 legs and antenna ferruginous, the hind femur, tibia, and tarsus 

 brownish ferruginous. Face, cheek, clypeus, frons except centrally, 

 interantennal process, scape and pedicel except above, mouth parts 

 except apex and margins of mandible, elongate marginal mark on 

 mesoscutum covering front end of notaulus, broad mark on upper 

 edge of propleurum, subtegular ridge, vertical oval mark on front of 

 mesopleurum below subtegular ridge, small spot above middle coxa, 

 apical 0.65 of metapleurum, tegula except apically, scutellum, baso- 

 lateral appendage of scutellum, small spot at apex of area dentipara, 

 front and middle coxae, trochanters, and femora, apical part of first 

 trochanter of hind leg, front and middle tarsi and their tibiae except 

 below, apex of hind femur in front and above, irregular apical 0.4 of 

 first tergite, apical 0.7, 0.8, 0.5, 0.35, and 0.3 of tergites two through 

 six, respectively, median apical spot on seventh tergite, and gentalia, 

 yellow; wings tinged with brown. The apical yellow bands on tergites 

 four through six have a small median and sublateral protrusion. 



Type: tf 1 , McDade, Tex., Mar. 28, 1935, J. E. Gillaspy (Washing- 

 ton, USNM 63619). 



Figures 51, 52. — Localities: 51 (left), Metopius (Cultrarius) seapulatus; 52 (right), M. (C.) 



xanthostigma. 



