pepsinae: tribe macromerini 



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Specimens: 9, Huachuca Mts., Ariz., June 15, 1920, F. X. Williams 

 (San Francisco), cf , 9, Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 29 

 and May 5, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9 (type), Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico (Philadelphia). 



7. Auplopus mollis, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Forewing 8.0 to 9.5 mm. long; clothing hairs of frons short, 

 whitish, and dense, arising from fine adjacent punctures; apical mar- 

 gin of clypeus broadly angled to a rounded median point; second 

 flagellar segment about 4.5 as long as wide; groove of pronotum with 

 weak cross wrinkles ; pygidial area poHshed, without evident punctures. 



Figure 86. — Localities for Auplopus mollis. 



Black, with a greenish blue iridescence that is strong on the head 

 and thorax, weak on the coxae and abdomen. A narrow line on front 

 orbit and part of apical edge of clypeus fulvous; apex of mandible 

 rufous; palpi brown; tegula mostly pale brown; legs beyond coxae light 

 rufous, the tibial spurs, middle and hind tarsi, and front tarsus beyond 

 the first segment infuscate; wings hyaline. 



Type: 9, Mission, Tex., July 22, 1931, L. G. Plyler (Washington, 

 USNM 61701). 



Paratypes: 9, taken from grapefruit tree, San Benito, Tex., Aug. 

 15, 1931, W. R. Heard (Townes). 9, taken from cabin of plane 

 (from Mexico), at Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 22, 1943 (Washington). 

 9, taken from cabin of plane (from Guatemala) at Brownsville, Tex., 

 Apr. 15, 1945 (Washington). 



8. Auplopus caerulescens (Dahlbom) 



Male: Forewing 4 to 5 mm. long; apical margin of clypeus a little 

 concave, the apex thin and simple; mandible evenly curved; second 



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