pepsinae: tribe pepsini 



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Figure 46. — Localities for Prtocnemis aequalis. 



(Evans), cf(type), Revelstoke, Selkirk Mts., British Columbia, 

 July 1, 1905, J. C. Bradley (Ithaca). 9, Pelham, N. H., Sept. 5, 

 1905, J. C. Bridwell (Washington), cf, Ringwood, Tompkins 

 County, N. Y., July 21, 1928, H. A. Scullen (Corvaliis). d', Rome, 

 N. Y., June 24, 1934, H. Townes (Townes). 9, Norman Wells, 

 Northwest Territory, July 23, 1949, W. R. M. Mason (Evans). cT, 

 Hemmingford, Quebec, July 19, 1925, G. H. Hammond (Ottawa). 

 9, on flowers of Pastinaca saliva, Orderville, 5,500 ft., Utah, Aug. 14, 

 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans). 9, Rutland, Vt., Aug. 1 to 5, 1916 

 (Cambridge), cf, Muskego, Wis., Aug. 7 to 16, 1936, P. B. Lawson 

 (Lawrence). Scf, 29, Watson Lake, Yukon Territoiy, June 20, 

 1948, W. R. M. Mason (Evans and Townes). cf, A. P. Morse 

 (Cambridge). 



This species is transcontinental in the Canadian and in the cooler 

 parts of the Transition Zone. 



4. Priocnemis {Priocnemis) hestia (Banks) 



Plate 2, figure 24 



Ageniella hestia Banks, 1915, Canadian Ent., vol. 47, p. 400, cT. Type: cf, 



Falls Church, Va. (Cambridge). 

 Ageniella crassicornis Banks, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, p. 108, cf . 



Lectotype: cT, Forest Hills, Mass., June 11, 1910, C. T. Brues (Cambridge). 



Male: Fore\\dng 3.7 to 5 mm. long; frons subpolished, with small 

 subadjacent punctures; sixth stemite with a pair of short, median, 

 longitudinal, parallel, high carinae; exposed part of subgenital plate 

 tongue-shaped, its apex subtruncate, about 1.3 as long as wide and 

 covered with long erect hairs. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous or the mandible mostly 

 pale. Head, body, and legs with a variable amount of pale markings, 

 at least the front of the front tibia fulvous and usually ^nth more or 



