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Wings subhyaliue, tinged with pale fuscous, especially towards the 

 tips, beautifully iridescent; nervures fuscous; second and third submar- 

 ginal cells of equal size, subquadrate. Legs long and slender, piceous- 

 black, clothed at base with a fine hoary pile ; tibiae and tarsi without 

 spines or teeth. Abdomen elongate, slender, shining, the basal half, 

 except extreme base, ferruginous; remainder black. Length 2f lines; 

 expanse of wings 4 5 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Guudlach. One specimen. 



Belongs to the subgenus Agenia. 



Sec. 3. — Wings hyaline, banded with fuscous. 



Pompilus pulchellus, n. sp. 



Ferruginous; head, antennae and disk of metathorax black; wings hyaline, 

 with two broad fusco-violaceous bands ; legs slightly spinose, the posterior 

 tibiae serrate. 



Female. — Head black ; the face, cheeks and clypeus covered with a 

 dense whitish pile; face broad and flat; clypeus, mandibles and palpi, 

 ferruginous; antennae nearly as long as the body, subporrect, slender, 

 fuscous, ferruginous at base. Thorax ferruginous, covered with a very 

 fine whitish-sericeous pile, dense and glittering on the metathorax ; 

 postscutellum and disk of metathorax blackish, the latter gradually 

 rounded behind and somewhat silvery on the sides. Wings hyaline, 

 witht wo broad fuscous bands on the anterior pair which have a beautiful 

 purple reflection, the one nearest the tip the broadest; posterior wings 

 hyaline, the tips faintly dusky; nervures fuscous. Legs moderate, 

 entirely ferruginous ; the intermediate tibiae with a few small spines, 

 the posterior pair serrate. Abdomen ovate, convex, entirely ferrugi- 

 nous, smooth and shining; sides of the segments covered with a very 

 fine silvery-white sericeous pubescence ; the apical segments, as well as 

 the venter, clothed with long pale pubescence. Length 3 2 lines; ex- 

 pause of wings 6i lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



A beautiful little species, easily recognized by its handsomely ornated 

 wings. It belongs to the subgenus Priocnemis. 



D a O 



Pompilus elegans, n. sp. 



Ferruginous ; head, antennae, legs and broad band near base of abdomen, 

 blackish ; metathorax, legs and base of apex of abdomen, densely covered with 

 cinereous pile ; wings whitish-hyaline, with a very large fuliginous spot near 

 the tip, as well as a small spot at base and middle. 



Female. — Head flat, wider than the thorax, black, with an obscure 

 purplish-brown shade; face broad and short; antennae short, piceous- 

 black. slightly involute. Thorax long and rather narrow, ferruginous; 



