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Black. Frons and mesoscutum with a faint bluish iridescence; 

 wings subhyaline, the apex of the forewing weakly inf uscate ; abdomen 

 rufous. 



Specimens (32c?', 769): From Alberta (Medicine Hat); Arizona 

 (Douglas); Colorado (Boulder and Logan County); District of Co- 

 lumbia (Washington); Florida (Hernando County, Jacksonville, 

 Orange County, and Pasco County); Georgia (Nashville and Tifton); 

 Kansas (Manhattan, Reno County, and Riley County); Louisiana 

 (Crowley and Opelousas); North Carolina (Clinton, Wake County, 

 Wallace, and Wendell); South Carolina (Colmnbia and Yemassee); 

 Texas (Balmorhea Lake in Reeves County, Brazos County, Browns- 

 ville, College Station, Davis Mts. in Jeff Davis County, Fedor, Fort 

 Davis, and Williamson County); Virginia (Clifton); and Mexico 

 (Ahuacatldn and ChapaliUa in Nayarit, Canutillo and Nombre de 

 Dios in Durango, Sombrerete in Zacatecas, Teotihuacdn, Vera Cruz 

 (city), and Villa Guadalupe in Jalisco). 



Collection dates for males are mostly in early to midsummer, 

 though there are July and August records, and one for Sept. 14 at 

 Nashville, Ga. Females come on the wing somewhat later and are 

 much more numerous than males after July. Extreme dates for 

 males are: May 6 at Opelousas, La.; May 24 at Clinton, N. C; 

 June 4 at Columbia, S. C; July 13 at Raleigh, N. C; July 21 in 

 WiUiamson County, Tex. ; August in Riley County, Kans. ; and Sept. 

 14 at Nashville, Ga. Extreme dates for females are May 6 at Ope- 

 lousas, La.; June 7 at Raleigh, N. C, and at Washington, D. C; 

 Sept. 30 at Yemassee, S. C; Oct. 1 at Manhattan, Kans.; Nov. 13 

 in Pasco County and Hernando County, Fla. These data indicate 

 more than one brood per season. 



This species occurs in the Transitional, Upper Austral, and Lower 

 Austral Zones east of the Rocky Mountains. Adults are on the 

 wing throughout the warm season. 



7. Ageniella (JPriophanes) fuscipennis, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Forewing 5.5 to 6.5 mm. long; pubescence of head and 

 thorax rather dense; apical hairless margin of clypeus mat, not 

 widened medially, the central half of its apical edge evenly convex; 

 mesoscutum mat, with very close fine punctures; nervulus beyond 

 the basal vein by about 0.75 its length; teeth on outer side of hind 

 tibia more erect and tuberclehke than in other members of the sub- 

 genus. 



Black. Wings inf uscate, a httle paler basaUy, and the apex of the 

 forewing a little darker; abdomen varying from dark red to black. 

 The abdomen of the type is dark red. 



Type: 9, Tracy, San Joaquin County, Calif., May 31, 1949, 

 J. W. MacSwain (Berkeley). 



