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Jen sericeous; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellowish, with a 

 golden gloss, apical margin of both pairs dusky; marginal cell long, 

 narrow and acute at tip; second submarginal oblique-quadrate, the 

 third nearly twice as large, longer than wide, slightly narrowed to- 

 wards the marginal, and receiving the second recurrent nervure about 

 the middle ; basal series of transverse nervures widely dislocated ; legs 

 long, rather slender, black, strongly sericeous, especially the coxae and 

 anterior tarsi, which are bright golden beneath ; abdomen petiolate, 

 oblong-ovate, convex, strongly ashy sericeous, especially at base; apex 

 pilose. Length 5J lines. 



Hab. — ^A^est Virginia, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 



One 9 specimen. Easily recognized by the golden face, polished 

 thorax and petiolate abdomen. 



67. Pompilus (Priocnemis) conicus. 



PompUus {2Iiscns) cornicus. Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 305, % 9- 



Female. — Black, subsericeous, subopaque, except the abdomen, 

 which is more or less highly polished ; anterior margin of the clypeus 

 subarcuate; posterior margin of the prothorax angular; metathorax 

 rounded ; wings long, fusco-hyaline. not uniformly so, the second and 

 third submarginal and the third discoidal cells have each a fuscous 

 spot, sometimes indistinct, and the first submarginal cell an oblique, 

 hyaline streak beneath the stigma; the externo-medial cell is nearly 

 hyaline; marginal cell long, narrow and acute at tip, the second sub- 

 marginal rounded at tip, and much pointed towards the base of the 

 wing, the third larger than the second, subquadrate, but slightly nar- 

 rowed towards the marginal and with the lower basal angle pointed 

 within, by reason of the second trausverso-cubital nervure being round- 

 ed outwardly ; the basal series of transverse nervures widely dislocated, 

 in some specimens the cubital nervure is continued clearly and entirely 

 to the apical margin of the wing, thereby making four distinct submargi- 

 nal cells; legs black, sericeous, especially the coxae; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae strongly serrated ; tarsi brownish ; abdomen ovate, con- 

 vex, polished, black, subpetiolate; apex pilose. One specimen (probably 

 immature), has the apical margins of the abdominal segments rufo-tes- 

 taceous. Length h\ — 6 lines. 



Male. — Much like the J , but more slender, more sericeous, wings 

 clearer and the tibiae less strongly serrated. Length 4j — 5 lines. 



Hah. — Maine, Conn., Penna., Canada, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. and 

 Mr. E. Norton.) 



Six 9 , two % specimens. 



