118 E. T. CRESSON. 



Thirteen 9 specimens. This is a pretty and easily recognized spe- 

 cies. The % has not been identified. 



73. Pompilus (Priocnemis) scitulus, n. sp. 



Female. — Small, bright honey-yellow, polished; head large, black; 

 anterior margin of the clypcus broadly rounded; mandibles brown ; an- 

 tennae rather long and slender, blackish above, brown beneath ; thora.x; 

 narrow, compressed at the sides ; posterior margin of the prothorax 

 •angular; mesothorax stained with blackish, the region on each side of 

 the scutellum and post-scutellum black ; metathorax smooth and round- 

 ed, the stigmata black ; wings hyaline, iridescent, marked as in alienn- 

 tits, the second submarginal cell is longer thaji in that species, while 

 the third submarginal is not so much narrowed towards the marginal ; 

 the basal series of transverse nervures is widely dislocated ; legs honey- 

 yellow, tips of tibire and tarsi dusky ; tibife not strongly serrated; ab- 

 domen ovate, subpetiolate, convex, polished, honey-yellow, the apical 

 half of the third and the remaining segments entirely, black, tip pice- 

 ous and hairy. Length 3 lines. 



//(//v.— Illinois, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) 



One 9 specimen. This handsome little species is closely allied to 

 alienatus, but is at once separated by the color of the body, except the 

 head and apex of abdomen, being entirely honey-yellow. 



74. Pompilus (Priocnemis) nothus, n. sp. 



Female. — Black, somewhat shining; anterior margin of the clypcus 

 subarcuate ; mandibles rufo-piceous at tips ; antenuce brown-black ; 

 posterior margin of the prothorax arcuate; metathorax oblong, round- 

 ed above, with a well impressed line down the middle ; wings pale fus- 

 co-hyaline, nearly hyaline at base, iridescent; marginal cell long, nar- 

 row and acute at tip ; second submarginal pointed towards the base of 

 the wing, the third subquadrate, broader than long, slightly narrowed 

 towards the marginal, and receiving the second recurrent nervure be- 

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

 legs brown-black, tarsi paler, tibitc strongly serrated; abdomen short, 

 ovate, convex, polished, dull ferruginous, apex brown. Length 4 

 lines. 



JIah. — Connecticut, (Coll. Mr. E. Norton.) 



One 9 specimen. 



75. Pompilus (Priocnemis) nuperus, n. sp. 



Female. — Head golden-ferruginous, with golden hairs, very long on 

 the cheeks; clypeus large, its anterior margin truncate; mandibles 

 blackish at tips; antennae long and slender, golden-ferruginous, the 



