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without an oblique carina at the front end of its transverse groove; 

 propodeum without transverse wrinkles. 



Black. Head, pronotum, mesonotum, femora, tibiae, and abdomen 

 with a dark blue iridescence; forewing infuscate, a little paler basally; 

 hind wing subhyaline, its apex a little infuscate. 



Type: 9, Mount Lemmon at 9,000 ft., Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz., 

 Aug. 2 to 4, 1948, H. E. Evans (Ithaca). 



Paratypes: 29, Madera Canyon at 6,500 ft., Santa Rita Mts., 

 Ariz., July 30, 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans and Washington). 9, 

 Rustlers Park at 9,000 ft., Chiricahua Mts., Ariz., July 7 to 8, 1948, 

 H. E. Evans (Evans). 9, with prey (immature Lycosa sp.). Cloud- 

 croft, N. Mex., 9,000 ft., July 26, 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans). 9 

 (lacking abdomen), South Fork of Eagle Creek at about 8,000 ft.. 

 White Mts., N. Mex., Aug. 16, C. H. T. Townsend (Washington). 

 29, Teotihuac^n, "Pyr.," Mexico, July 7, 1951, H. E. Evans (Evans 

 and Townes). 



This species is known only from Mexico and the mountains of Arizona 

 and New Mexico at 6,500 to 9,000 ft. altitude. 



Figure 120. — Localities for Ageniella norata. 



12. Ageniella {Ageniella) norata Banks 



Ageniella norata Banks, 1914, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 22, p. 305, cf. 

 Lectotype: cf, Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 31, 1910, M. C. Van Duzee (Cam- 

 bridge) . 



Ageniella cupidella Banks, 1915, Canadian Ent., vol. 47, p. 400, ?. Type: ?, 

 Ridgeway, Ont. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 4.5 to 5.5 mm. long; clypeus without a median 

 apical tooth or a notch; temple with about 15 long suberect hairs; 

 mesopleuron without an oblique carina at the front end of its trans- 

 verse groove, or sometimes with a short weak one; third cubital cell 

 about 1.7 as long as high, receiving the second recurrent vein at the 



