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Benicia, Berkeley, Blythe, Calexico, Canby, Clarksburg, Clayton, 

 Davis, Del Puerto Canyon in Stanislaus County, Dixon, Dos Palos, 

 Firebaugh in Fresno County, Hemet, Holtville, Imperial Count3% 

 La Grange, Lemoncove, Los Angeles, Mendota, Morgan Hill, Mount 

 Diablo in Contra Costa Countj^, National City, Newport Bay in 

 Orange County, Niles, Nipomo, Old Town in San Diego County, 

 Oxalis in Fresno County, Petaluma, Eedwood City, Ripley, Sacra- 

 mento, Sacramento River Valley, San Diego, San Dimas, San Jose, 

 Stanford Universit}^ Telsa in Alameda County, Temecula, Tracy, 

 Vacaville, Walnut Creek, and Willows) ; and Baja California, Mexico 

 (Catavina, 20 miles north of Comondii, and Purissima). 



Most dates of capture are in July and August, but a num.ber of 

 others extend the usual distribution from June 2 to Sept. 27, and the 

 subspecies has been taken at Blythe, Calif., on May 7 and Oct. 3 and 

 at Telsa, Calif, on Oct. 15. Two collections were made on the flowers 

 of Asclepias. 



This subspecies occurs in central and southern California and in 

 Baja California. Most adults are on the wing from early Jime to 

 late September. 



7d. Priocnemioides unifasciatiis urichi Banks, new status 



Priocnemioides urichi Banks, 1945, Bol. Ent. Venezolana, vol. 4, p. 89, 9 • Type: 

 9 , northwestern part of Trinidad (Cambridge) . 



Black. Pubescence of face and clypeus medium brown; flagellum 

 orange; wings orange, fuscous basally and apically. The fuscous 

 basal portion extends about 0.65 the distance to the basal vein, and 

 the fuscous apical portion does not reach or just reaches the apex of 

 the radial cell. 



Specimens (4 c?', 99): From Panamd (Chiriqui and Barro Colorado 

 Island) ; Colombia (Cincinnati) ; Trinidad ; Venezuela (Merida and 

 Valera) ; and Ecuador (Mera) . 



7e. Priocnemioides unifasciatus luteicornis (Lepeletier), new status 



Calicurgus luteicornis Lepeletier 1845, Histoire naturelle des insectes, hym^noptferes, 

 vol. 3, p. 404, 9. Type: 9, Province des Mines, Brazil (?Paris). 



fPepsis Bonariensis Lepeletier, 1845, Historie naturelle des insectes, hym^noptferes, 

 vol. 3, p. 476, 9. Type: 9» Buenos Aires, Argentina (?Paris). 



Priocnemioides tenebrosus Banks, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 96, p. 480, 

 cT, 9 (new synon3^my). Type: 9 , Brazil (Cambridge) . 



Black. Pubescence of face and clypeus light brown; flagelliun 

 orange; wings orange but more or less suffused with brownish and 

 distinctly infuscate basally and apically. The basal and apical 

 infuscation is not as sharply defined as in the subspecies urichi, 

 cressoni, and californicus. Specimens of the present subspecies from 

 Argentina in general have less brownish suffusion on the wings than 

 do those from elsewhere. 



