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2. Pangonia tranquilla n. sp. 



$ ,2 • Brownish-black, sides of abilomen and base of venter reddish, abdominal segments beset with 

 golden-yellow h.iirs on tlie ]iosterior borders; legs brown, antennfe black, wings tinged with brownish. 

 Body 12, wings 10 i- miliini. long. 



Head yellowish-gray, beset with yellowish-gray hairs ; palpi ( $ ) brown beset with black 

 hairs, palpi ( S ) narrow, brownish-black, grayish-pollinose at the base, sometimes reddish at 

 tip ; prol:)o>cis somewhat longer than the liead, black with well developed labella ; anten- 

 nie jjlack ; basal joint slightly grayish-pollinose and beset with blaclv hairs. Thorax brown- 

 ish, with gray pollen and beset with yellowish hairs ; in the $ the thoracic dorsinn shows 

 three brown longitudinal lines on grayish ground ; scutelhnn brownish, posterior margin 

 grayish-pollinose. Abdomen blackish-larown ; three iDasal segments reddish-yellow on the 

 sides and on a narrow margin posteriorly ; the following segments have only a trace of yel- 

 lowish-red on the sides ; all the segments with a fringe of golden-yellow hairs on the poste- 

 rior margin : venter ; basal segments reddish-yellow, the following ones black. Legs black, 

 knees somewhat paler. Wings with a brownish tinge, which is more saturate and somewhat 

 yellowish in the region of the stigma and along the anterior margin ; no stump of a vein 

 on tlie fork of the third vein ; posterior cells open. 



Hab. Massachusetts (Mr. Sanljorn); White Mts. (B. P. Mann); also in the Middle 

 States (Eutom. Soc. Phil.) ; Canada (Belanger). One male and two females. 



3- Pangonia pigra n. sp. 



ct , ? . Brownish-yellow, beset with golden-yellow hairs ; anteuua) and legs reddish-yellow. Wings hya- 

 line, stigma yellow. 



Body 11-lH, wings 10^ millini. long. 



Female. Head yellowish-gray ; j^alpi reddish-yellow, beset at the base v.'ith pale yellow 

 hairs ; antenniB reddish, basal joints yellowish-pollinose and beset with pale hairs ; proboscis 

 somewhat shorter than the head, comparatively stout, with large labella. Thorax fulvous, 

 ■with short appressed yellow hairs above, altogether covering the blackish stripes on the disc ; 

 longer, paler hairs on the sides and below. Scutellum fulvous, more or less blackish in 

 the middle. Abdomen brownish-yellow, with appressed golden-yellow hairs, especially ap- 

 parent as a fringe on the posterior margins of the segments. Legs brownish-fellow. 

 Wings nearly hyaluie, slightly graj'ish ; 3-ellowish at base and along the costal margm, in- 

 side of the first longitudinal vein ; stigma large, elongate, saturate yellow ; no stumj^ on 

 the fork of the third vein ; posterior cells open. 



A male from the Museimi of the Entomological Society in Philadelphia has the thoracic 

 dorsum blackish, with two reddish lines separating the usual stripes ; the scutellum is black- 

 ish in the middle ; the brownish-red abdomen has, besides the appressed golden-yellow 

 hairs, which are but little apparent, some short, erect blackish hairs, especially visijjle on 

 the sides. 



Hab. Bee Spring, Kentucky, in June (Sanborn) ; another specimen from the State of 

 New York. Two females, one male. 



