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less extensive additional pale markings as follows: palpi pale brown; 

 clypeus with its apical margin cream-colored to mostly cream-colored ; 

 hind margin of pronotum pale brown; legs fulvous, the tibia, tarsus, 

 and knees of the hind legs fuscous ; basal half of abdomen more or less 

 extensively tinged with fulvous. Wings subhyaline, the forewing with 

 a faint infuscation along its basal vein, subapically, and along its 

 apical margin. 



Female: Forewing 4 to 6 mm. long; frons mat, with very dense, 

 fine, weak, inconspicuous punctures. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous; front tibia fulvous apically; 

 wings hyaline, the forewing with a broad conspicuous infuscation 

 along the basal vein and nervulus, and extending across the anal cell, 

 also infuscate in its apical third with a conspicuous hyaline area in the 

 basal 0.7 of the fourth cubital cell. 



Figure 47. — Localities for Priocnemis hestia. 



Specimens (23 cf , 26 9) : From Connecticut (Soapstone Mount near 

 Somers and Stafford); District of Columbia; Maryland (Cabin John, 

 Glen Echo, and Takoma Park); Massachusetts (Forest Hills, South 

 Natick, and Woods Hole) ; New York (Farmingdale and Ithaca) ; 

 North Carolina (Nantahala Gorge at 3,000 ft.) ; Virginia (Chain 

 Bridge, Dead Kun, Dunn Loring, and Falls Church) ; and West Vir- 

 ginia (Kanawha Station). 



Dates of collection are distributed from May 26 to Sept. 11. Neaiij^ 

 half of the collections were made in August. Five different collections 

 are labeled "in woods." 



This species occurs in woods in the Alleghenian fauna from Massa- 

 chusetts to North Carolina. The adult stage occurs in summer. 



