pepsinae: tribe pepsini 



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Black. Most of head and thorax dull ferruginous with the sutui-es 

 black ; coxae with an external dull ferruginous area ; wings moderately 

 infuscate, the forewing a little darker along the basal vein and nervulus 

 and in an area just beyond the level of the stigma; abdomen ferrugi- 

 nous, infuscate beyond the third tergite, the apical margins of the 

 first to third tergites usually weakly infuscate; base of first tergite 

 somewhat infuscate. 



Specimens (ScT, 459): From Alabama (Montgomery): Arkansas 

 (Palm); Colorado; Kansas (Baldwin County, Douglas County, 

 Ellsworth, Manhattan, and Wichita) ; Missouri (St. Louis) ; Nebraska 

 (Lincoln and Malcolm); North Carolina (Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and 

 Tryon); and Tennessee (Clarksville and Knoxville). The 3 males 

 were collected on Mar. 4 and 16 at Manhattan, Kans., and on Mar. 30 

 at Lincoln, Nebr. Dates of capture for females are from Mar. 8 to 

 May 2, one from Malcolm, Nebr., on May 12, and one from Osage, 

 Kans., in "August." Most were collected in April. 



This is a species of the Central and Southeastern States. Adults 

 occur in early spring. 



3. Priocnemis {Priocnemissus) oregona Banks, new combination 



Pompilus comparatus Walker, 1866, in Lord, The naturalist in Vancouver Island 

 and British Columbia, vol. 2, p. 341, 9 (preoccupied). Type: 9, British 

 Columbia (London). 



Priocnemis oregona Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 11 (new name). 



Male: Forewing 6.5 to 11 mm. long; clypeus moderately convex, 

 rather long, its apex truncate; subgenital plate tongue-shaped, its 

 hairs erect and about 1.3 as long as the width of the subgenital plate. 



Black. Wings moderately infuscate; abdomen red, the base of the 

 first tergite black. 



Figure 42. — Localities for Priocnemis oregona. 



