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and dorsal spots on hind coxa, trochanters except for base of first hind 

 trochanter, usually front of front femur, sometimes front of middle 

 femur, base and broader apex of all femora, front and middle tibiae 

 and tarsi, hind tibia except for hind face which is brown (broader 

 apically) and usually a brown subapical mark on front face, apical 

 0.8 of first tergite, second and following tergites apically and laterally, 

 and male genitalia, yellow; flagellum basally brown beneath; hind 

 tarsus light brown, the basitarsus largely yellowish; wings tinged with 

 brown, the front half of front wing darker. The yellow on abdominal 

 tergites 2 to 7 includes the apical 0.2 to 0.45 and the sides (narrowly 

 to broadly) except for the basal lateral oblique impressions, which are 

 black. The basocentral black area on the tergites varies from a 

 rectangular shape with somewhat concave sides (usually in males) to 

 a U-shaped or V-shaped area, in all cases making a pattern unique 

 among the Nearctic species of Metopius, but somewhat like that in 

 M. errantius californicus. 



A single male from Indian Flat, Mariposa Co., Calif., has the yellow 

 markings unusually extensive, including all of the front and middle 

 legs except for the extreme base of coxae and entire front face of hind 

 femur. 



Type: 9, 4 miles west of Quincy, Calif., June 22, 1949, A. S. Deal 

 (Washington, USNM 63617). 



Paratypes: 12 c?, 219, from California (Arroyo Seco Camp in Mon- 

 terey Co., Blocksburg, Carrville at 2,400 to 2,500 ft., Comanche 

 Creek Canyon in Yolo Co., Dunsmuir, Fort Seward, Herkey Creek 

 in the San Jacinto Mts., Indian Flat in Mariposa Co., Keen Camp 

 in the San Jacinto Mts., Lower Lake in Lake Co., 4 miles west of 

 Quincy, Samuel Spring in Napa Co., Sierraville, near Stanford 



Figures 48, 49. — Localities: 



(left), Metopius {Metopius) galbaneus; 49 (right), M. (M.) 

 vittatus. 



