. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. pepsinae: tribe macromerini 183 This is a subspecies of the Gulf and South Atlantic States, except Florida, where it is replaced by the subspecies ventratis. Seasonal data suggest an early summer and a late summer brood. The females from Takoma Park, Md., were taken in a damp meadow of grass and Solidago, at honeydew; those from Raleigh in September and October were taken at the nectaries of Cassia nictitans. All these looked and acted like large red ants crawling over the vegetation, and were rather slow to take flight, trusting more to the
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. pepsinae: tribe macromerini 183 This is a subspecies of the Gulf and South Atlantic States, except Florida, where it is replaced by the subspecies ventratis. Seasonal data suggest an early summer and a late summer brood. The females from Takoma Park, Md., were taken in a damp meadow of grass and Solidago, at honeydew; those from Raleigh in September and October were taken at the nectaries of Cassia nictitans. All these looked and acted like large red ants crawling over the vegetation, and were rather slow to take flight, trusting more to their legs. 3b. Ageniella (PriopJianes) faceta ventralis, new subspecies Male: Fulvo-ferruginous. Tibial spurs white, the middle and hind ones ferruginous basally; wings subhyaliue, with a cloud over the basal vein, a broader cloud just beyond the stigma, and its apex infuscate; first abdominal segment and basal part of second abdominal segment fulvous, the rest of the abdomen blackish with a fulvous tinge at the Figure 102.—Localities for Ageniella faceta ventralis. Female: Fhst abdominal segment fulvous, the rest blackish with the sclerites more or less distinctly margined with fulvous; fuscous markings on v/ings a little darker and more extensive than in the subspecies faceta. In the paratype from Mexico the basal third of the second abdominal segment is fulvescent. Type: 9, Orlando, Fla., June 19, 1931 (Washington, USNM 61702). Paratypes: c?, Arcadia, Fla., Mar. 31, 1954, K. V. Krombein (Krombein). 29, Larkins, Fla., AprU and May (Cambridge). 9, Osceola County, Fla., Aug. 6, 1929, J. J. Kirldand (Washington). 9, Pasco County, Fla., Sept. 10, 1929, J. W. Chapman (Washington). 9, Seminole County, Fla., Aug. 16, 1929, C. Nelson (Washington). 9, Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, June 2 to 5, 1951, H. E. Evans (Evans).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of the
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