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prey (Misumenops oblongus 9, with legs cut off) taken by H. E. Evans 

 at Manhattan, Kans.; and another with prey {Phidipjpus audax 

 immature) taken by H. E. Evans at Ithaca, N. Y. In my own col- 

 lecting experience this subspecies is common in pastures and aban- 

 doned fields, rather than in woods as is the case with ^, nigrellus. 

 Its mud cells are somewhat more rotund and more perfectly made of 

 harder clay than with certain other species. Always they are under 

 a stone in the open, in an irregular group of usually three to five, 

 plastered to the stone and against one another, in a place the stone 

 happened to be raised above the soil enough to give the female space. 

 This subspecies occurs in the Transition to Austroriparian Zones 

 from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains and west of the Rocky 

 Mountains into Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. It intergrades 

 with the more western subspecies (A. architectus metallicus) in these 

 three States and in northern Mexico. Adults occur throughout the 

 growing season, usually in overgrown fields. The nests are under 

 stones in the open. 



10. Auplopus nigrellus (Banks), new combination 



Plate 1, figure 11 



Pseudagenia nigrella Banks, 1911, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 232, 

 9 . Lectotype: 9 , North Fork of Swannanoa River, Black Mt., N. C, 

 May. (Cambridge). 



Pseudagenia nanella Banks, 1912, Canadian Ent., vol. 44, p. 198, [ 9 I- Lecto- 

 type: 9, Sea Cliff, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 5 to 10 (Cambridge). 



Figure 92. — Localities for Auplopus nigrellus. 



Male: Fore wing 4.7 to 6.0 mm. long; apical margin of clypeus a 

 little concave, the apex thin and a Uttle reflexed; mandible evenly 

 curved; second segment of flagellum about 3.2 as long as wide, the 

 penultimate segment about 1.65 as long as wide; mesopleuron mat, 



