pepsestae: tribe pepsini 21 



Female: Forewing 14 to 17 mm. long; second jflagellar segment 

 about 2.5 as long as wide; propodeum with fine weak transverse 

 wrinkles; larger punctures on sternites very sparse, weak. 



Black. Wings black, the forewing with an oval or subcircular 

 orange spot centering below the stigma and occupying about 0.7 the 

 wing width. A specimen from Barber County, Kans., has the spot in 

 the forewing enlarged and rather diffuse. 



Specimens: 9, Wadley, Ala., H. H. Smith (Washington). 9, 

 Imboden, Ark., Byron C. Marshall (Washington). 9, Atlanta, Ga., 

 July 9, 1929, P. W. Fattig (Washmgton). 9, Cornelia, Ga. (Ithaca). 

 9, Head River, Ga., July 18, 1936, P. W. Fattig (Townes). 9, Sprmg 

 Creek, Decatur County, Ga., July 17 to 23, 1911, J. C. Bradley 

 (Ithaca). 9, Stone Mt., Ga., June 25, 1930, P. W. Fattig 

 (Emory Univ.). 9, Barber County, Kans., July 12 (Manhattan). 

 9, luka. Miss., July 14, 1930, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 9, Ozark 

 Lake, Mo., Sept. 18, 1939, E. C. VanDyke (Berkeley), cf, Van 

 Buren, Ozark Mts., Mo., June 6, 1930, E. A. Pence (Ann Arbor). 

 9, Mo., June (Washington). 9, Raleigh, N. C, July 7, 1922, C. S. 

 Brimley (Raleigh). 9, Southern Pines, N. C, June 6, 1906, R. 

 Woglum (Raleigh). 9, Bastrop County, Tex., April 28, 1935, J. E. 

 Gillaspy (College Station, Tex.). 9, College Station, Tex., Oct. 8, 

 1937, E. B. Dubuisson (College Station, Tex.). 69, Fedor, Tex., 

 May 12, 13, 21, 1905, May 1910, June 2, 1909, and Dec. 1909 (Cam- 

 bridge). 29, Lee County, Tex., May 26 and Oct. 1910 (Cambridge). 

 9, Oldenburg, Tex., Nov. 5, 1932, R. W. Strandtmann (Strandtmann) . 

 9, Paris, Tex., May 10, 1904, C. T. Brues (Cambridge). 9, no data 

 (Cambridge) . 



This species occurs in the warmer portions of the Southeastern 

 States. 



6. Chirodamus heiligbrttdtii (Cresson) 



Priocnemis heiligbrodtii Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 204, 9 . 



Type: 9 , Texas (Washington) . 

 Agenia belfragei Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 205, cf . Lecto- 



type: cf, Texas (Philadelphia). 

 Onochares brazoria Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 9, 9 . Type: 9 , Fedor, Lee 



County, Tex. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing about 15 mm. long; temple about 0.7 as long as 

 the eye (about 0.6 as long as the eye in all other species except C. 

 deceptus) ; 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 apicall}^; mesopleuron dull, with very dense 

 fine punctures and scattered indistinct larger punctures; abdomen with 

 a weak constriction between the first and second tergites; apical 

 margin of fifth sternite gently concave; sixth sternite with evident 

 punctures, especially laterally (practically impunctate in the other 



