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tergite, apical 0.3 to 0.6 of third tergite, fourth to seventh tergites 

 except basally, and male genitalia, yellow; flagellum reddish brown, a 

 little darker toward apex; front and top faces of front and middle 

 femora light brown; wings light yellowish brown, the front half of 

 front wing a little darker. 



Specimens: 9, Inverness, Calif., May 28, 1939, E. C. Van Dyke 

 (San Francisco). 9, Laytonville, Calif., May 30, 1955, E. I. Schlinger 

 (Townes). 9, Sonoma Co., Calif. (Washington), cf , Gardnerville, 

 Nev., May 28, 1939, P. C. Ting, M. A. Cazier, J. A. Downes, and T. 

 Aitken (Townes). cf (type), Nevada (Philadelphia). 



lb. Metopius (Metopius) robustus mirandus Cresson, new status 



Figure 183,b 



Metopius mirandus Cresson, 1879, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, proc. p. xxix; 



9. Type: 9 , Colorado (Philadelphia) . 

 Metopius grandior Viereck, 1905, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 19, p. 314; 9 



(new synonymy). Type: 9 , Hamilton Co., Kans., 3,350 ft. (Lawrence). 



Male: Black. Face, interantennal process, side of frons, scape, 

 pedicel, more or less of cheek, more or less of basal margin of labrum, 

 sometimes spot on base of mandible, stripe along upper margin of 

 pronotum, small area on subtegular ridge, apical 0.35 and laterobasal 

 part of scutellum, postscutellum, very small spot on mesopleurum next 

 to middle coxa, larger spot on hind part of metapleurum, spot at apex 

 of second lateral area of propodeum, coxae except basally, trochanters, 

 narrow base and broader apex of femora, most of outer face of hind 

 femur, first tergite except at extreme base, narrow apex of second 

 tergite and broader apex of third tergite, fourth to seventh tergites 

 except basally and in laterobasal grooves, and genitalia, yellow; 

 clypeus brownish; flagellum pale reddish brown, darker brown beyond 



Figures 39-41. — Localities, subspecies of Metopius (Metopius) robustus: 39 (left), concinnus; 

 40 (center), mirandus; 41 (right), robustus. 



