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Specimens: 9, Denver, Colo., June 11, 1948, H., M., G., and D. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, El Paso Co., Colo., July 7, 1921, Grace O. 

 Wiley (St. Paul), cf, 39 (including types of comptus and laticinctus) , 

 Colorado (Philadelphia). 9 Hamilton, Ga., May 16, 1936, P. W. 

 Fattig (Washington). 9, Lula, Ga., May 30, 1937, P. W. Fattig 

 (Washington). &, "Clover," S. Dak., June 18, 1929, H. C. Severin 

 (Townes). 



This species has been collected in Georgia, South Dakota, and 

 eastern Colorado. Adults occur in late spring and early summer. 



2. Mctopius (Cultrarius) scitulus Cresson, new combination 



Metopius scitulus Cresson, 1879, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, proc. p. xxix; d\ 

 Type: d\ Nevada (Philadelphia). 



Male type: Front wing 7 mm. long; facial shield about 1.16 as high 

 as wide, without a median carina, with coarse punctures interspersed 

 with smaller punctures, the interspaces of the larger punctures about 

 0.6 their diameter; lower edge of facial shield more sharply rounded 

 than usual for the subgenus; wider segments of flagellum about 2.1 as 

 wide as long; galea short, broadly rounded, with moderately dense 

 setae; glossa short (not visible in the specimen at hand); second seg- 

 ment of maxillary palpus pyriform, a little flattened and weakly 

 swollen; mesopleurum with very coarse punctures, the inserspaces 

 about 1.0 the punctural diameter; metapleurum with very coarse 

 punctures, the interspaces about 1.5 the punctural diameter; prepectal 

 carina complete; areolet about 2.0 as wide as length of second recurrent 

 vein; claws of front and middle tarsi pectinate throughout. 



Black. Broad lateral and ventral margins of facial shield, space 

 between facial shield and eye, interantennal process, clypeus except 

 for a mediobasal area, second segment of maxillary palpus, scape and 

 pedicel beneath, broad stripe on upper margin of pronotum, small spot 

 on tegula, vertically rectangular area on mesopleurum below wing, 

 small elongate mark on mesopleurum near middle coxa, most of meta- 

 pleurum, scutellum except at base, small spot at apex of area dentipara, 

 large apicolateral spot on first tergite, front and middle coxae apically 

 and on apical half in front, apical 0.25 to 0.35 of second through 

 sixth tergites medially and increased to apical 0.6 to 0.8 sublaterally, 

 apical 0.3 of seventh tergite, most of under part of first through fifth 

 abdominal segments, apical 0.2 to 0.3 of sixth and seventh sternites, 

 and genitalia, yellow; legs beyond coxae yellow, marked with blackish 

 as follows: hind femur except on base, apex, and in front; middle 

 femur except on base and apex; front femur except on apex; and hind 

 tibia on its apex, the extent of the blackish apex of hind tibia grading 

 from the apical 0.4 below to the apical 0.12 above; palpi, except for 

 second segment of maxillary palpus, yellowish brown; wings sub- 

 hyaline, tinged with brown; tarsi, especially the hind tarsus, tinged 



