pepsestae: tribe pepsini 



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PYRRHOMELAS GROUP 



Head and body usually dull, with dense, small, adjacent setiferous 

 punctures and with the clothing hairs unusually dense and fine. 

 (Certain parts of the body in one or both sexes may be shiny.) Anal 

 lobe about 0.75 as long as the submediella ; fifth tarsal segment of 

 female usually with discal bristles beneath ; front tarsal claws of male 

 with a long declined tooth (the tooth is especially long on the outer 

 claw), the rest of the claws of both sexes with a short, more or less 

 erect tooth; teeth on outer side of hind tibia of female smaU, but sharp 

 and distinct; male abdomen with an evident constriction between the 

 first two tergites; male subgenital plate usually spherically concave, 

 hairy, with the marginal hairs longer to make a fimbriate border 

 (exception: C. deceptus). 



The species included are the Nearctic deceptus, pyrrhomelas, maculi- 

 pennis, heiligbrodtii, feroculis, and validus. 



3. Chirodamus deceptus (Banks) 



Priocnemis decepta Banks, 1926, Canadian Ent., vol. 58, p. 201, ( 9 ]. Type: 9 , 

 Fedor, Lee Countj, Tex. (Cambridge). 



Male: Fore wing 9 mm. long; temple 0.5 as long as the eye (about 

 0.6 as long as the eye in all other Nearctic species of the group except 



Figure 4. — Localities for Chirodamus deceptus. 



(I heiligbrodtii) tooth on outer claw of fore tarsus about 0.6 as long as 

 the part of the claw beyond it, the two parts widely separated basally 

 but somewhat convergent apically; mesopleuron a little shining, with 

 dense fine punctures and scattered indistinct larger punctures; ab- 

 domen with a very weak constriction between the first and second 

 tergites; apical margin of fifth sternite weakly concave; subgenital 



