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This subspecies occurs in the Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas, 

 in woods. The dividing line between it and the subspecies varii- 

 tarsatus seems to coincide with the farthest southward extent of 

 glaciation. Adults are on the wing from late spring to midfall. 



Figure 83. — Locality for Auplopus mellipes meridianus. 

 5b. Auplopus rneUipes meridianus, new subspecies 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Front coxa black, rufous at the extreme apex; middle and 

 hind coxae rufous, infuscate basally; legs beyond coxae rufous, the 

 tibial spurs and the tarsi apically brown. 



Type: 9, Paradise Key, Fla., Apr. 7, 1951, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes) . 



Paratypes: 29, Paradise Key, Fla., Apr. 6, 1951, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes) . 



5c. Auplopus mellipes variitarsatus (Dalla Torre), new status 



Pompilus {Agenia) varipes Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, p. 126, 



9 (preoccupied). Type: ? , Illinois (Philadelphia). 

 Agenia variitarsata Dalla Torre, 1897, Catalogus hymenopterorum . . . , vol. 8, 



p. 210 (new name). 



Male: Palpi brownish to fulvous, infuscate at the base; tegula 

 fulvous to dark brown; coxae blackish, the front coxa sometimes 

 partly fulvous; front leg beyond coxa entirely fulvous or sometimes 

 with fuscous areas; middle leg beyond coxa ranging from entirely 

 fulvous with the tarsi brownish to alraostly entirely blackish; hind 

 leg blackish, often somewhat tinged with fulvous. 



Female: Legs black or blackish brown, with fulvous stains on the 

 front of the fore tibia, much of fore tarsus, and at most of the joints. 



Specimens intermediate to the typical subspecies are a female from 

 Zumbra Heights, Carver County, Mmn. (Townes); four males from 



