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Specimens: 9, Bear Creek, Colo., September (Washington). 9, 

 Boulder, Colo., Aug. 7, 1906, W. P. Coekerell (Washington). 9 

 (type), Clear Creek, Colo., Oslar (Cambridge). 9, Kerrville, Tex., 

 June 2, 1906, F. C. Pratt (Washington). 9, Lee County, Tex., June 

 (Cambridge) . 



4. Priocnessus apache (Banks) 



(Plate 2, figure 16 



Priocnemis (Priocnessus) apache Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 11, 9 . Type: 

 9 , Apache Canyon, Santa Catalina Mts. at 5,500 ft., Ariz. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 11 to 13 mm. long. Structure as described for 

 the male of P. nebulosus. 



Light rufous. A spot in front of front ocellus, upper side of flagel- 

 lum, thorax near bases of wings and of coxae, and base of abdomen, 



Figure 17. — Localities for Priocnessus apache. 



fuscous, the extent of the fuscous quite different in the two specimens 

 at hand; coxae sometimes blackish basally; middle and hind tarsi fus- 

 cous apically; wings lightly suffused with yellowish brown, the hind 

 wing a little less so than the forewing; forewing with three transverse 

 brown bands, one across the apex, one centering just beyond the apex 

 of the stigma, and one along the basal vein and nervulus; hind wing 

 tinged with brown apically; seventh tergite with a large whitish spot. 

 The male from Texas has the fuscous markings much more extensive 

 than the male from Arizona. 



Female: Forewing 11 to 15 mm, long; hind tibia with its dorsal 

 teeth strong and the bristles in its dorsolateral row about 0.65 as long 

 as the distance between their sockets; last segment of tarsi without 

 preapical bristles beneath. 



