pepsinae: tribe pepsesti 



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E. Hartford, Conn., June 28, 1946; 9, with Pirata arenicola 9, E. Hart- 

 ford, Conn., Aug. 1, 1946; 9, with immature Evarcha hoyi, E. Hartford, 

 Conn., Sept 2, 1947; 9, dragging a very young Lycosa on clay bank, 

 RUey County, Kans., Oct. 2, 1949; 9, on clay bank with immature 

 Pardosa cf, Riley County, Kans., Oct. 16, 1949 ; 9, stinging an immature 

 Lycosa several times, including once on the back, Manhattan, Kans., 

 Oct. 10, 1949. Flower records on the specimens before me comprise 

 Ranunculus calif ornicus, Daucus carofa, and Bifora americana. Seven 

 of the collections were made "on sand" and one "in woods." My own 

 observations indicate that the usual habitat is rather bare ground in 

 the open, often somewhat sandy. 



This species occurs in the entire United States and southern Canada. 

 The usual habitat is bare or rather sparsely covered ground in the 

 open. Adults occur from early summer to midfall. 



6. Priocnemis {Priocnemis) minuscula (Banks), new combination 



Plate 2, figure 25 



Agenia minuscula Banks, 1917, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, p. 110, cf. 

 Type: cf, Dallas, Tex. (Cambridge). 



M4LE: Forewing 3.1 to 4 mm. long; frons wealdy mat, with small, 

 shallow, adjacent punctures ; exposed part of subgenital plate spatulate, 

 as seen from below convex transversely and concave longitudinally, 

 with a single median row of long erect hairs, otherwise bare. 



Figure 49. — Localities for Priocnemis minuscula. 



Black. Apical part of mandible, sometimes the underside of scape, 

 most of legs, much of first abdominal segment, all or most of the second 

 abdominal segment, and the basal part of the third segment fulvo- 

 ferruginous. The legs have the coxae basally to entirely, and the 

 trochanters sometimes infuscate. The fore tarsus apicaUy, the middle 

 and hind tibiae at the base and apex or entirely, and all of the middle 

 and hind tarsi are more or less infuscate. The first abdominal segment 



