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Ageniella accepta (Cress.) 
Lycosa sp., immature [N. Banks] 
Riverhead, L. I., N. Y. ; Aug. 1, 1917; Wm. T. Davis 
It is customary for the species of Ageniella and Pseud- 
agenia to mutilate their spiders by removing the legs. The 
present spider forms no exception, as all eight legs have 
been nipped off at the coxae. According to Hartman (Bull. 
Univ. Texas 65:47. 1905), this Psammocharid also preys 
on Attids. 
Crabro (Thyreopus) argus Pack. 
Rhaphium vanduzeei Curran [C. W. Johnson] 
White Plains, N. Y.; Sept. 10, 1921 
This is apparently the first reference to the prey of the 
above wasp. The fly has been described since the compila- 
tion of the New York list. 
Tachytes mandibularis Patt. 
Conocephalus saltans (Scud.) [Wm. T. Davis] 
White Plains, N. Y. ; Sept. 10, 1921 
Orchelimum fidicinium Rehn & Hebard [Wm. T. Davis] 
Oyster Bay, L. L, N. Y. ; Aug. 31, 1929 
In the case of the second record, the wasp was flying 
with the Orchelimum, and both were caught in one sweep 
of the net. The wasp was killed, but the grasshopper was 
brought back to the laboratory for observation. Two days 
later it was still alive, and when stimulated, moved the 
abdomen, the antennse, and both pairs of palpi. That eve- 
ning and also the next morning, it was moving the antennse 
and palpi spontaneously. The following morning (Sept. 
4), it was dead. 
When Patton described T. mandibularis (Ent. News 
3:90. 1892), he gave the prey as Xiphidium (now Cono- 
cephalus). F. X. Williams found it preying on an imma- 
ture Orchelimum (Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull. 8:198, 1913), and 
Wm. T. Davis has an additional record for Orchelimum 
fidicinium in the New York list (p. 23). 
