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Length 10 to 12 mm. 



From Long Beach, L. L, N.Y., Aug., (Shannon); Chesapeake Beach, 

 Md., 18 to 21 Sept.; Gulfport, Fla., April, (Reynolds); Billy's Island, Okefenokec 

 S^^arrp, Ca , 1 to 5 Selpt., (Bradley), and Tybee Island, Ga., (Bradley); evi- 

 dently a coastal species. Body and legs more hairy than hyacinthinus , and 

 with longer comb, four on first joint. 



Ageniella eximia, n. sp. 



cT. Black, apical parts of legs more brown; wings slightly fumose, not 

 darker on tips. Small and very slender; face rather broad, hardly narrowed 

 below, lateral ocelli plainly nearer to each other than to the eyes; pronotum 

 behind strongly arcuate, metathorax sericeous on its sides. Abdomen very 

 slender, basal segment about one and a half times longer than broad at tip; 

 inner spur of the hind tibia little more than one-half of the basitarsus. Wings 

 slender, rather short, marginal cell not its length from wing-tip, third sub- 

 marginal higher than long, slightly narrowed above, receiving the second re- 

 current a little before middle, basal vein a little before the transverse. 



Length 3'/2 to 41/2 mm. 



From Falls Church, Va., Ithaca, N.Y., 15 July to 10 Aug., (Bradley), 

 Albany, and McLean, N.Y., 3 July. 



Related to A. iridipennis Cress., but very much smaller, darker spurs and 

 front legs, and slightly different in venation. Several specimens have the 

 apical part of hind femora reddish, but otherw^ise agree. 

 Agriogenia, n. gen. 



Based on Agenia hrevis Cress. It agrees in general with Ageniella, but 

 differs in being clothed with a fine, appressed, greyish yellow pubescence; the 

 legs, especially the femora, are shorter and stouter than in Agenia, and the 

 shape of marginal cell and- third submarginal was noted by Cresson. The 

 ferrule, I'owever, has on the underside of the he>ad back of the mouth a curved 

 row of long white bristles which look as though arranged to hold food. Nothing 

 similar occurs in Ageniella; the head is flatter in the frontal region than 

 in Ageniella. 



Philanthid^. 

 Cerceris completa, n. sp. 



Male from Claremont, California, (Baker). Black, with yellow marks; 

 face below antennae, base of mandibles, stripe on scape beneath, spots on pro- 

 notum, the postscutellum, and legs (except basal two-thirds of femora, yel- 

 lowish. Basal segment of abdomen black, second yellow above, with a median 

 transverse black spot, pointed at each side, the following segments yellow with 

 large basal, transverse, black spot, that on the third and fourth segments nar- 

 rowed at extreme base; the venter with pale bands on second, third and fourth 

 segments broader on sides, fifth with spots on side Clypeus truncate in middle 

 below; hair lobes small; enclosure smooth and shining; first abdominal seg- 

 ment plainly longer than broad, and not one-half the width of the second; 

 other segments broad; pygidial area once and two-thirds longer than broad at 

 base, rather broader at base than elsewhere. Body rather finely and densely 

 punctate; head, thorax, and first segment plainly hairy; stigma yellowish. 



Length 11 mm. 



