Bichard Dow.
Notes on the Prey of Wasps.
Psyche 37:181-182, 1930.

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19301 Prey of Wasps 181
wing bright yellow. Pleurse shining black without yellow markings, a brown spot on mesopleurse, upper pteropleurse and on the metapleurse. Scutellum yellow with a narrow brown transverse band. Dorsum papillosetose with a transverse stripe along the suture, not connected medianly. First abdominal segment dark reddish, with a black spot in the middle above and on either side and with a narrow posterior black border. Second segment black, on the sides and posteriorly dark red, anteriorly yellow; very much con- stricted. Remaining segments shining black with deep red posterior border and prominent gray pollinose lunules. Legs shining red, the basal half of all the tibiae becoming pale yellow, and the femora basally, paler in color. Hal- teres and squamas brownish yellow. Wings dark brown on the whole anterior half the infuscation, reaching to the tip of wing or end of costa.
Type, female and three paratypes, females, Dilley, Texas, May 4-11, 1920 (H. J. Reinhard).
This interesting form is certainly related to bellardi in the pattern of the pleurae, thorax, and abdomen. However, the several specimens of this species differ from that species in a number of points. Among them are the face with its papillosetse and its peculiar bulges, and the ventral con- cavity of the abdomen with the unusual shape of the last two abdominal segments. Structurally it would appear nearest related to schwa& Shnn. The shining, glossy black of schwarzi Shnn. renders that species abundantly distinct. NOTES ON THE PREY OF WASPS
BY RICHARD Dow
The first three records are based on specimens in the collection of Dr. J. Bequaert, who has kindly permitted me to publish on his material. I am also indebted to Prof. N. Banks, Mr. C. W. Johnson, and Mr. Wm. T. Davis for assistance in determining specimens.




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Psyche
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 sultans (Scud.) fWm. T. Davis] White Plains, N. Y. ; Sept. 10, 1921
Orchelimum fidicinium Rehn & Hebard [Wm. T. Davis] Oyster Bay, L. I., 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 antennae, and both pairs of palpi. That eve- ning and also the next morning, it was moving the antennae and palpi spontaneously. The following morning (Sept. 4), it was dead.
When Patton described T. rnandibularis (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 fidicimum in the New York list (p. 23).




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