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polished background; apical margin of clypeus broadly angled to a 

 rounded median point; second flagellar segment about 4.8 as long as 

 wide; groove of pronotum with rudimentary fine, oblique wrinkles; 

 P3^gidial area mat, apically with scattered punctures that are separated 

 by about 2.5 their diameter. 



Black, without iridescence. A very narrow line on inner orbit 

 fulvous; flagellum fulvescent beneath; apical part of mandible ferrugi- 

 nous; palpi pale brown, darker basally; tegula brown; coloration of 

 rest of legs varying with the subspecies; wings subhyaline. 



There are three subspecies, differentiated on the basis of leg colora- 

 tion, all in the eastern half of the United States and Canada. 



5a. Auplopus melllpes mellipes (Say) 



Pompilus mellipes Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 304 (Leconte 

 edition, vol. 2, p. 746), ?. Type: ?, Indiana (destroyed). 



Agenia fuhipes Dahlbom, 1843, Hymenoptera Europaea . . . , vol. 1, p. 92, ? . 

 Types: 9 9 , Pennsylvania and South Carolina (Lund). 



Pseudagenia mellipes var. interior Banks, 1911, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 

 19, p. 233 [9 ]. Type: 9 , Southern Pines, N. C. (Cambridge). 



Biology: Rau, 1916, Journ. Animal Behavior, vol. 6, pp. 42-43, fig. 22; 1918, 

 Wasp studies afield, pp. 84r-89; 1926, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 25, 

 pp. 196-197, and pp. 342-358, figs. 37-40; 1928, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 

 21, p. 26.— Krombein, 1952, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, pp. 176-177. 



Figure 82. — Localities for Auplopus mellipes mellipes. 



Male: Palpi pale fulvous, fuscous basally; tegula and legs fulvous, 

 the middle and hind tarsi usually mostly fuscous, the fore and middle 

 coxae usually partly fuscous, and the hind coxa partly to mostly 

 fuscous. 



Female: Legs beyond coxae fulvous, the tibial spurs and the tarsi 

 apically brown. The dark stripe on the inner side of the hind tibia, 

 which Banks described for his variety interior^ is due to dirt in the 

 tibial brush of his type. 



