pepsinae: tribe macromereni 



201 



Church, Va., Aug. 22 and 28 and Sept. 6, N. Banks (Cambridge and 

 Raleigh). 29, Falls Church, Va., June 25 and July 12, N. Banks 

 (Cambridge). 29, Columbia, S. C, July 30 and Aug. 18, 1951, 

 G. and L. Townes (Townes). 



This subspecies has been collected from the District of Columbia to 

 South Carolina. 



7. Ageniella {Ageniella) euphorbiae (Viereck) 



Agenia euphorbiae Viereck, 1902, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 54, 



p. 734, d'. Type: cf , San Pedro, Calif. (Philadelphia). 

 Ageniella subaequalis Banks, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 63, p. 243, cT. 



Tj'pe: cf , mountains near Claremont, Calif. (Ithaca). 



Male: Forewing 3.3 to 6.5 mm. long; apical margin of clypeus 

 entire, not toothed or notched medially; temple with about eight 

 long suberect hairs; mesopleuron without an oblique carina at the 

 front end of its transverse groove; third cubital cell about 1.45 as 

 long as high, receiving the second recurrent vein at about its basal 

 0.43; seventh sternite narrowly tectate, "wdthout erect hairs. 



Black. Wings subhj^aline, the apical part of the forewing weakly 

 infuscate; seventh tergite with a large whitish spot. 



Female: Forewing 5.5 to 7.5 mm. long; apical hairless margin of 

 clypeus broadened medially, sometimes to make an indistinct median 



Figure 115.— Localities for Ageniella euphorbiae. 



tooth; temple with about ten long suberect hairs; mesopleuron with- 

 out an oblique carina at the front end of its transverse groove or 

 sometimes with a short indistinct one; propodeum \vithout wrinkles. 



Black. Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and abdomen with a dark 

 blue irridescence ; forewing fuscous; hind wing subhyaline. 



Specimens (15 cf, 189): From Arizona (Carr Canyon in the Hua- 

 chuca Mts.); British Columbia (Vernon); California (Benicia, Berke- 

 ley, mountains near Claremont, Huntington Lake in Fresno County 



