pepsinae: tribe pepseni 



95 



and at most these parts plus almost all of the front femur and of the 

 middle and hind femora and tibiae; basal half of abdomen usually 

 stained with fulvous laterally. 



Female: Black. Front tarsus, front of front tibia and often the 

 basolateral parts of the abdomen stained with fulvous. 



Specimens (16 cf, 609): From Connecticut (East Hartford, Lyme. 

 Orange, and Stafford) ; Maine (Orono) ; Massachusetts (Holliston and 

 South Natick); New Hampshire (Greenfield, Pinkham Notch, Pitts- 

 field, and Stinson Lake) ; New York (Big Indian Valley in the Catskill 

 Mts., Boston, Cold Spring Harbor, Gardiners Island, Ithaca, Keene, 

 New Russia, Niagara Falls, Oneonta, Poughkeepsie, Sea Cliff, and 

 Van Courtland); North Carolina (Crabtree Meadows in Yancey 

 County at 3,600 ft., Hamrick, Mount Mitchell at 5,200 ft., and 

 Mount Pisgah at 4,600 ft.); Ohio (Columbus and Shaker Heights); 

 Ontario (Chatham); Pennsylvania (Paupack); Quebec (Knowlton 

 and Montreal); Vermont (Woodstock); and Wisconsin (Sawder 

 County). 



Most dates of capture are from Jul}' 15 to Aug. 31. The extreme 

 dates are June 15 to Sept. 10. 



This subspecies occurs in the Canadian and Alleghenian faunas. 

 The habitat is the undergrowth of moist woods. Adults are on the 

 wing mostly in the last half of summer. 



2b. Priocnetnis (,Priocnemis) scitula scitula (Cresson) 



Plate 2, figube 23 



Pompilus {Priocnetnis) scitulus Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 

 p. 118, 9. Type: $, Illinois (Philadelphia). 



Male: Black. Coxae below and sometimes almost entirely, tro- 

 chanters except at the base, middle and hind femora except at the 



t?^-;-^. 



Figure 45. — Localities for Priocnemis scitula scitula. 



