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c?", Takoma Park, Md., Sept. 5, 1942, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 

 cT, emerged May 12, 1939, from dense, oval cocoon found under bark 

 on Apr. 22, 1939, Hunt County, Tex., R. W. Strandtmann (Strandt- 

 mann). cf , reared from larva on the body of a young lycosid spider, 

 found May 14, 1945, at Gainesville, Ga., spun a cocoon May 16, 1945, 

 pupated May 18, 1945, and emerged as an adult June 9, 1945, B. J. 

 Kaston (Kaston). Another larva, possibly of this species, was found 

 on the bodjT^ of a young lycosid spider by B. J. Kaston at Gainesville, 

 Ga., Sept. 19, 1940; the larva moulted Dec. 19, 1940, and Dec. 31, 

 1940; spun a cocoon Jan. 2, 1941; but failed to emerge as an adult 

 (Kaston). cf (tj^pe). Falls Church, Va., July 12, N. Banks (Cam- 

 bridge). 



This species appears to belong to the Carolinian and Austro- 

 riparian faunas. 



Figure 138. — Localities for Minagenia julia. 



7. Minagenia julia (Brimley) 



Plate 4, figures 41, 42, 43, 47 



Ageniella julia Brimley, 1934, Ent. News, vol. 45, p. 42, cf. Type: cf, Raleigh, 

 N. C. (Raleigh). 



Male: Fore wing 4.2 to 6.0 mm. long; sternites 2 to 5 with very 

 short clothing hairs, and a few oblique hairs a little longer than the 

 rest; subgenital plate rather narrowly oblanceolate, its apical point 

 rounded and its sides upcurved; squama linear, elongate or short, 

 with a fringe of very long suberect bristles on the outer side. 



Color variable, usually as described here. Black. Under edge of 

 scape, labrum, and apical part of mandible light brown; palpi and 

 tegula brown; legs rufous, the fore coxa basally behind, a longitudinal 

 stripe on middle and hind coxae, front tarsus apicaUy, middle and 

 hind tarsi, middle tibia apically, and most of hind tibia, infuscate; 



