pepsinae: tribe macromerini 



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This is a subspecies of the Gulf and South Atlantic States, except 

 Florida, where it is replaced by the subspecies ventratis. Seasonal 

 data suggest an early summer and a late summer brood. The females 

 from Takoma Park, Md., were taken in a damp meadow of grass 

 and Solidago, at honeydew; those from Raleigh in September and 

 October were taken at the nectaries of Cassia nictitans. All these 

 looked and acted like large red ants crawling over the vegetation, 

 and were rather slow to take flight, trusting more to their legs. 



3b. Ageniella (PriopJianes) faceta ventralis, new subspecies 



Male: Fulvo-ferruginous. Tibial spurs white, the middle and hind 

 ones ferruginous basally; wings subhyaliue, with a cloud over the basal 

 vein, a broader cloud just beyond the stigma, and its apex infuscate; 

 first abdominal segment and basal part of second abdominal segment 

 fulvous, the rest of the abdomen blackish with a fulvous tinge at the 

 apex. 



Figure 102. — Localities for Ageniella faceta ventralis. 



Female: Fhst abdominal segment fulvous, the rest blackish with 

 the sclerites more or less distinctly margined with fulvous; fuscous 

 markings on v/ings a little darker and more extensive than in the 

 subspecies faceta. In the paratype from Mexico the basal third of 

 the second abdominal segment is fulvescent. 



Type: 9, Orlando, Fla., June 19, 1931 (Washington, USNM 61702). 



Paratypes: c?, Arcadia, Fla., Mar. 31, 1954, K. V. Krombein 

 (Krombein). 29, Larkins, Fla., AprU and May (Cambridge). 9, 

 Osceola County, Fla., Aug. 6, 1929, J. J. Kirldand (Washington). 

 9, Pasco County, Fla., Sept. 10, 1929, J. W. Chapman (Washington). 

 9, Seminole County, Fla., Aug. 16, 1929, C. Nelson (Washington). 

 9, Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, June 2 to 5, 1951, H. E. Evans 

 (Evans) . 



