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minus Kohl 1905; and Priocnerais montrouzieri Williams 1945. A 

 paratype of montrouzieri has been examined. All these species except 

 the New Caledonian montrouzieri are from Chile and all are new com- 

 binations in the genus Priocnemis or in the subgenus Sphictostethus, 

 or in both. 



Priocnemis (Sphictostethus) pretiosa Banks, new combination 



Plate 2, figure 21 



Priocnemis pretiosa Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 13, <f . Type: cf, Mount 

 Lemmon at 6,000 ft., Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 6.5 to 10 mm. long; hind edge of hind tibia with 

 feeble teeth; subgenital plate tongue-shaped, flat with its edge weakly 

 reflexed, its surface with erect hairs averaging about 0.7 as long as 

 the width of the subgenital plate, the more posterior hairs longer than 

 the rest. 



Figure 39. — Localities for Priocnemis pretiosa. 



Black. Wings orange, their apices margined with fuscous. Smaller 

 males have an additional, more or less well developed fuscous cloud 

 centering just beyond the apex of the stigma. 



Female: Forewing 7.5 to 11 mm. long; hind edge of hind tibia 

 with moderately strong teeth. 



Black. Wings orange, the apex of the forewing margined with 

 fuscous. 



Two undetermined species from Mount Popocatepetl, Mexico 

 (9,600 ft.), are very close to pretiosa, differing only in minor characters 

 in the male subgenital plate and lacking the discal cloud in the fore- 

 wing of the male. One of the two may prove to be a subspecies of 

 pretiosa. 



Specimens: 49, Carr Canyon, 7,500 ft., Huachuca Mts., Aiiz., 

 July 29, 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans). 9, Cochise County, Ariz., 



