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sometimes partly brown; femora and tibiae varjing from fuscous to 

 bright ferruginous, the tibiae of the middle and hind legs darker at the 

 base and apex; tibial spurs stramineus, infuscate basally ; wings hyaline 

 the apex of the hind wing and the apical part of the forewing (beyond 

 the tip of the radial cell) somewhat infuscate; a small faint infuscate 

 cloud centering over the juncture of the second intercubital and the 

 cubital veins; first three tergites ferruginous, the base of the first 

 fuscous and the third sometimes more or less infuscate; fourth and 

 following tergites tinged with ferruginous; seventh tergite with a large 

 whitish spot. 



Female: Abdomen entirely fulvous. 



Type: 9, visiting cottonwood honeydew, Manhattan, Kans., July 8, 

 1950, H. E. Evans (Washington, USNM 61798). 



Paratypes: cf, on corn and sorghum infested with mealybug, 

 Manhattan, Kans., July 5, 1934, R. H. Painter (Manhattan). 2cf , 

 29, same data as the type (Townes). 3 cf , Manhattan, Kans., July 16, 

 1950, H. E. Evans (Evans), d" 9, Manhattan, Kans., July 27, 1950, 

 H. E. Evans (Evans). 



2. Ageniella (Priophanes) rufescens (Banks), new combination 



Priocnemis rufescens Banks, 1939, Canadian Ent., vol. 71, p. 229, [ 9 J- Type: 

 9, Aden, N. Mex. (Cambridge). 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Forewing about 4.7 mm. long; pubescence of head and 

 thorax moderately dense, the setiferous punctures strong; apical hair- 

 less margin of clypeus mat, not widened medially, its apical margin 

 very weakly convex; nervulus beyond the basal vein by about 0.5 

 its length. 



Figure 100. — Localities for Ageniella rufescens. 



