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is infuscate basally and the second tergite is sometimes infuscate 

 medially. Wings subhyaline. 



Female: Forewing 3.8 to 4.2 mm. long; frons mat, with very fine, 

 close, and indistinct punctures; wings unusually short and narrow, 

 but functional. 



Black. Mouthparts, apical half of clypeus, scape, pedicel, pro- 

 thorax, tegula, legs, and abdomen rufous; wings slightly infuscate, 

 the forewing with a strong but indefinite fuscous transverse band on 

 the basal vein and strongly infuscate from the level of the base of the 

 stigma to the apex, often somewhat less strongly infuscate beyond the 

 apex of the radial cell; apical part of hind wing somewhat infuscate. 



The correctness of the association of the female with the male is 

 uncertain. 



Specimens: 9, Bloomington, 111., July 8, 1909 (Ottawa). 9, Man- 

 hattan, Kans., Oct. 24, 1930, D. A. Wilbur (Manhattan). 9, Hamrick, 

 N. C, Aug. 29, 1950, H. Townes (Townes). d', Wallace, N. C, June 

 17, 1949, H. Townes (Townes). d", Columbia, S. C, Aug. 11, 1951, 

 G. F. Townes (Townes). 9, Dallas, Tex., June 3, 1911, H. Pinkus 

 (Washington). cT (type), Dallas, Tex., Aug. 2, 1916, F. C. Bishopp 

 (Cambridge). 9, Liberty Hill, Tex., June 18, 1936, (Strand tmann) , 



The female collected at Hamrick, N. C, was found crawling along 

 the ground in the edge of a weedy field, unwilling to take flight, and 

 appearing much like an ant. 



This species occurs in the Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas. 



7. Priocnemis (Priocnemis) abbreviatus, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Body 4 mm. long; frons mat, with ver}^ fine punctures 

 separated by about their diameter; wings vestigial, the forewing about 

 1.6 mm. long, about 0.78 as long as the thorax. 



Figure 50. — Locality for Priocnemis abbreviatus. 



