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Yellowish red as in A. blaisdelli; a little black between ocelli, abdomen 

 sometimes darkened (discolored) above near tip; wings violaceous black, 

 uniformly dark throughout in both pairs. Similar to A. blaisdelli in structure; 

 the pronotum behind rather angulate; legs weakly spinose; distinguished by 

 its much larger size and uniformly darker wings. 



Length 14 mm. 



Ageniella blaisdelli (Fox). 



Calif.: Lemoncove, Tulare Co., 9-11 July, Lompoc, 9 September, 

 Mesa Grande, Russian River, 30 September, Glenwood, 27 Miay, 

 Sugar Pine, Madera Co., 21: -31 August. 



Ageniella euphorbiae (Viereck). 

 Cjalif. : Described from San Pedro (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



Ageniella subaequalis, sp. nov. 



Type. — Cornell Univ. Coll. 



Calif.: Mts. near Claremont (Baker). 



c? Black; tips of mandibles reddish; wings faintly fumose, hardly darker 

 at tip; last segment of abdomen brownish above. Body very slender; face 

 narrowed below, silvery sericeous on the lower part, lateral ocelli a little closer 

 to each other than to the eyes, last joint of the antennae strongly compressed; 

 hind margin of pronotum deeply emarginate behind, pleura and hind part of 

 the metanotum silvery; abdomen very slender, first segment about three 

 times as long as broad at tip, petiolate, slightly margined below toward tip. 

 Spurs rather paler than legs, inner spur of hind tibia a little more than one 

 half of the basitarsus. Wings rather short, marginal cell fully its length from 

 wing-tip, third submarginal plainly higher than long, only slightly narrowed 

 above, basal vein bowed, interstitial with the transverse, second recurrent 

 reaches third submarginal cell beyond the middle. 



Length 4 mm. 



Ageniella aequalis, sp. nov. 



Type. — Cornell Univ. Coll. 



B. Col.: Revelstoke, Selkirk Mts., 1 July (Bradley). 



