. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 56 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 209 4. Priocnemioides texanus (Cresson) Forewing of male 12 to 16 mm. long, of female 15 to 20 mm. long; clypeus of male about as wide as long, of female about as wide* as long; temple not receding from just behind the eye, so that the head as seen from above is almost or quite as wade across the temples as across the eyes; propodeum and metapleuron smooth, not at all wrinkled; hind femur about as long as wide; teeth on dorsal side of hind tibia of male distinct, oblique, of female prominent and
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 56 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 209 4. Priocnemioides texanus (Cresson) Forewing of male 12 to 16 mm. long, of female 15 to 20 mm. long; clypeus of male about as wide as long, of female about as wide* as long; temple not receding from just behind the eye, so that the head as seen from above is almost or quite as wade across the temples as across the eyes; propodeum and metapleuron smooth, not at all wrinkled; hind femur about as long as wide; teeth on dorsal side of hind tibia of male distinct, oblique, of female prominent and rather wide, about as wide as the length of the bristle beyond each; sixth sternite of male laterally with long, erect, black hairs, discally without long erect hairs; subgenital plate of male with a marginal brush of hairs, these hairs longer on the lateroapical margin than on the apical margin; discal hairs on male subgenital plate short, declinate. Black. Wings almost entirely black to mostly orange, according to the subspecies; head and thorax with a faint purple iridescence. This species occurs in the Southwestern States and eastward to Louisiana. It comprises two subspecies. 4a. Priocnemioides texanus atripenniSf new subspecies Wings black. Type: cf, Opelousas, La., May 25, 1897, G. R. Pilate (Washing- ton, USNM 61696).. Figure 24.—Locality for Priocnemioides texanus atripennis. 4b. Priocnemioides texanus texnnits (Cresson) Priocnemis texanus Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 204, cT, ?. Lectotype: 9? Texas (Philadelphia). Wings mostly orange, ranging from clear orange with the apical part and the extreme base rather abruptly infuscate in specimens from the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of t
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