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suffusion caused by orange hairs against the blackish wing membrane. 

 The paratype has more orange on the wings than the type. 



Type: 9, Theodore, Ala., June 12, 1917 (Ithaca). 



Paratype: 9, on flowers of Cicuta maculata, Osage County, 

 Kans., Aug. 5, 1950, H. E. Evans (Evans). 



2b. Priocnemioides austriniis austrinus (Banks) 



Plate 1, figuke 5 



Cryptocheilus austrinus Banks, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, p. 102, 9- 

 Type: 9 , Texas (Cambridge) . 



Wings orange, infuscate apically and at the base. Specimens from 

 central Kansas and Texas often have the orange of the wings some- 

 what suft'used with brownish, and are thus somewhat intermediate to 

 the subspecies fuscaius. 



Figure 22. — Localities for Priocnemioides austrinus austrinus. 



Specimens (28 cf, 229) : From Colorado (Boulder) ; Kansas (Barber 

 County, Butler County, Cheyenne County, Comanche County, Dick- 

 inson County, ElHs County, Ford County, Gray County, Hamilton 

 County, Harvey County, Manhattan, Morton County, Neosho 

 County, Russell County, Scott City, and Sedgwick Count}'-) ; and 

 Texas (Clarendon, College Station, C3^press Mills, Dallas, Fedor, 

 Hunt County, Maxwell, Williamson County, and Wolfe City). 



Most collection dates are from June 16 to the end of August. Those 

 outside of this range are: May 8, May 21, and Oct. 2 at College Sta- 

 tion, Tex.; June 6 at Fedor, Tex.; Sept. 17 at Maxwell, Tex.; and 

 Sept. 22 at Dallas, Tex. Flower records comprise Melilotus alba, 

 Symphoricarpos , Ampelopsis arborea, and Solidago. 



This subspecies occurs in Texas, Kansas, and Colorado (Boulder). 

 Adults occur mostly from June to September. 



