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apex, front tibia except for a weak dorsal infuscation, middle and 

 hind tibia except toward their ends, front and middle tarsi, more or 

 less of the posterolateral part of pronotum and sides and venter of 

 basal half of abdomen, fulvous. 



Female: Black. Thorax varying from entirel}^ black to almost 

 entirely fulvous; legs fulvous, with more or less extensive infuscation, 

 this infuscation usually covering upper side of the coxae, the hind 

 knees, and the hind tarsi; abdomen fulvous with approximately the 

 apical half black or infuscate. 



Specimens (28 cT, 449): From Alabama (Coosa River in Chilton 

 County); District of Columbia; Illinois; Iowa (Iowa City); Maryland 

 (Bowie, Cabin John, Glen Echo, Plummers Island, and Takoma Park) ; 

 Massachusetts (Wellesley); Minnesota (Norman County); New Jersey 

 (Moorestov/n and West Englewood) ; New York (Sea Cliff) ; Pennsyl- 

 vania (Inglenook, Overbrook, and Philadelphia) ; Virginia (Arlington, 

 Falls Church, and Palonian Springs); and West Virginia (Bolivar). 



Most dates of capture are from June 15 to Sept. 15. Those earlier 

 and later are: Ma}^ 28, June 1 and 11 at Falls Church, Va.; Sept. 21 

 at Iowa City, Iowa; Sept. 23 at Bolivar, W. Va.; Sept. 24 at Bowie, 

 Md.; and Oct. 13 on Plummers Island, Md. 



This subspecies occurs in low vegetation of moist woods in the 

 Carolinian Fauna. Adults occur throughout the summer. 



3. Priocnemis (Priocnemis) aequalis (Banks) 



Ageniella aequalis Banks, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., vol. 63, p. 243, cf. 

 Type: cf , Revelstoke, Selkirk Mts., British Columbia (Ithaca). 



Male: Fore wing 3.7 to 5 mm. long; frons subpolished, with shallow 

 punctures separated by about 0.3 their diameter; sixth sternite with 

 its lateral hook unusually distant from its apical margin, postero- 

 mesal to the hook a weak semicircular impression that is bounded 

 mesally by a weak oblique ridge; exposed part of subgenital plate 

 tongue-shaped, about 1.3 as long as wide and covered with short 

 oblique setae. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous; apex, front, and under 

 side of front tibia fulvous; wings subhyaline, the apical third of the 

 forewing faintly infuscate. 



Female: Forewing 5 to 7.5 mm. long; frons weakly mat, with 

 shallow punctures separated by about 0.3 their diameter. 



Black. Apical half of mandible ferruginous ; wings faintly infuscate, 

 the forewing with a weak indefinite infuscation along the basal vein 

 and nervulus, and its apical third moderately infuscate; apical portion 

 of hind wing faintly infuscate. 



Specimens: d", Calgary, Alberta, July 18, 1917, Sladen (Ottawa). 

 d'y Fort Nelson, British Columbia, June 13, 1948, W. R. M. Mason 



