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the middle; palpi yellowish fulvous; thorax rufous except where 

 described as yellow, and black as follows: median stripe on meso- 

 scutum (broadened anteriorly and abbreviated posteriorly), pro- 

 pleurum laterally, posteroventral part of pronotum, prepectus except 

 above, mesosternum except next to sternaulus, lower and hind parts 

 of mesopleurum, front third and lateral faces of scutellum, front part 

 of metapleurum except for an area in upper front corner, hind margin 

 of metapleurum, and base of propodeum; tegula rufous; legs fulvous 

 (except where described as yellow), the front and middle tibiae and 

 tarsi largely yellowish and hind face of hind femur brownish; wings 

 pale brown, the front half of front wing darker brown; second and 

 third tergites rufous, basally black and apically yellow. 



Female: Black. Face except for median vertical elliptical area, 

 interantennal process, side of frons, scape, spot on subtegular ridge, 

 apical 0.35 of scutellum, spot on laterobasal part of scutellum, 

 postscutellum, central area of metapleurum, indistinct small spot at 

 apex of second lateral area of propodeum, apex of coxae, upper side 

 of hind coxa, most of middle and hind trochanters, apex and extreme 

 base of femora, tinge at base of tibiae, first tergite except basally, 

 small apical lateral and apical median spots on third tergite, and 

 tergites four to six except for their basal 0.3 and basolateral area, 

 yellow; scape and flagellum red-brown, the flagellum darker beyond 

 the middle; palpi, upper part of pronotum, tegula, upper anterior 

 part of mesopleurum, lateral margin of mesoscutum, a median pair 

 of narrow stripes on hind part of mesoscutum (these are united by 

 a cross bar in front of scutellum), lateroapical part of propodeum, 

 base of first tergite, apical 0.7 of second tergite, and apical 0.65 of 

 third tergite except for its apical yellow spots, rufous; legs ferruginous 

 except where described as yellow, the hind coxa black basally behind, 

 the hind femur black behind, and the hind tibia infuscate at apex; 

 wings pale brown, the front half of front wing darker brown. 



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

 Townes (Townes). 9 (type of mirandus), Colorado (Philadelphia). 

 cf, Colorado (Washington). 9 (type of grandior), Hamilton Co. 

 at 3,350 ft., Kans., June 1902, F. H. Snow (Lawrence). 



lc. Metopius (Metopius) robustus robustus Cresson 



Figure 183, c 



Metopius robustus Cresson, 1879, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, proc. p. xxvii; 



?. Type: ?, Maryland (Philadelphia) . 

 Metopius harbecki Skinner, 1906, Ent. News, vol. 17, p. 150; [cT] (new synonymy). 



Type: d\ Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. (Philadelphia). 



Black. Face except for median vertical elliptical area, inter- 

 antennal process, basolateral part of frons, sometimes narrow stripe 



