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*hesperus Bohart and Menke. Calif, to B. C, Nev., Utah, Wyo., Colo. Prey: 

 immature Ajiabrus simplex Hald. 

 Palmodes hesperus Bohart and Menke, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63: 

 184, fig. 6. $,9. 



*insularis Bohart and Menke. Calif. (San Clemente Is.). 



Palmodes insularis Bohart and Menke, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63: 

 186. $, ?. 



laeviventris (Cresson). Remove morio (Kohl), a valid sp., from synonymy, 

 and place it under *carbo Bohart and Menke. Calif., Wash., Nev., 

 Mont., Utah, Idaho, Wyo., Colo. 



*Iissus Bohart and Menke. Southern Calif., Ariz., Tex. 



Palmodes lissus Bohart and Menke, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63: 187, 

 figs. 5, 12. $, 9. 



*pacificus Bohart and Menke. Calif. 



Palmodes pactficus Bohart and Menke, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63: 

 188, figs. 8, 9, 14. $,9. 



praestans (Kohl). Calif., Nev., Ariz., N. Mex.; Mexico (Coahuila). 



rufiventris opuntiae (Rohwer). Syn. of dimidiatus (DeGeer). 



rufiventris rufiventris (Cresson). Syn. of dimidiatus (DeGeer). 



^'stygicus Bohart and Menke. Calif., Nev., Utah, Ariz., N. Mex. 



Palmodes stygicus Bohart and Menke, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63: 

 191, figs. 1, 11, 16. $, 9. 



980. 



SPHEX subgenus CHLORION Latreille, p. 974 

 Transfer to Tribe Sceliphronini and place after Podium Fabricius, p. 



Genus SPHEX Linnaeus 

 ( = Ammophi7o Kirby, of Catalog, pp. 974—977) 



*Ammophila subg. Eremnophila Menke, 1964. Canad. Ent. 96: 875. 



Type: Ammophila opulenta Guerin. Orig. desig. 

 Biology: Evans, 1959b. Amer. Midland Nat. 62: 449-473 :— Powell, 1964. 

 Kans. Ent. Soc. Jour. 37: 240-258. 



aberti (Haldeman). Transfer montezuma Cameron to syn. of junceus 

 (Cresson). Prey: Larvae of Euchlaena sp. in Geometridae, and of 

 Hesperiidae sp. 



Taxonomy: Evans, 1959a, loc. cit. supra, p. 148, figs. 31-33 (larva). 



Biology: Evans, 1959b, loc. cit. supra, pp. 454-456. — Powell, 1964, loc. 

 cit. supra, pp. 244-251. 



*aplirodite (Menke), n. comb. Ariz., Nev., Calif. 



Ammophila aphrodite Menke, 1964. Acta Hym. 2: 8, fig. 2. $,9. 



arvensis (Dahlbom). Delete from Catalog, an extralimital species (teste 

 Menke, 1964. Acta Hym. 2: 21); evansi (Menke) replaces 

 arvensis of American authors. 



aureonotatus (Cameron). Prey: Heterocampa guttivitta (Wlkr.), larva. 

 (Eremnophila) 



Biology: Krombein, 1958. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 60: 104.— Evans, 1959b, 

 loc. cit. supra, pp. 464-465. 



*bellulus (Menke), n. comb. Ariz. 



Ammophila bellula Menke, 1964. Acta Hym. 2: 17, fig. 10. $,9. 



*boharti (Menke), n. comb. Calif., Nev. 



Ammophila boharti Menke, 1964. Acta Hym. 2: 9, fig. 7. $, 9. 



*californicus (Menke), n. comb. Calif. 



Ammophila calif ornica Menke, 1964. Acta Hym. 2: 18, fig. 16. $, 9. 



chiriquensis (Cameron). Syn. of volcanicus (Cameron). 



