132 E. T. CRESSON. 



108. Pompilus ^Agenia) Montezumia, 



Agenia Montezumia, Smith, Journal of Entomology, i, p. 397. 



'■'Male. Length 4'} lines. — Black; face with a dense golden pubes- 

 cence ; clypeus transverse, widely emarginate in front; head with a 

 long, thin, black pubescence. Thorax thinly covered with long black 

 pubescence; tips of anterior femora in front, tibiae in front and their 

 apex rufo-testaceous ; wings ample, flavo-hyaline, their apical margins 

 faintly clouded, and with a fuscous fascia crossing the superior pair at 

 the base of the marginal cell. Abdomen subpetiolate, black, with an 

 obscure blue tinge ; the apex with a short black pubescence." 



Hah. — " Oajaca, Mexico." Not seen. 



1(19. Pompilus (Agenia) orbiculatus. 



Agenia orbiru/ata, Smith, Journal of Entomology, i, p. .397. 



'■'■Female. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax black, adorned with 

 golden pile ; inner orbits of the eyes, a spot behind them, two spots 

 on the clypeus, mandibles, and third and fourth joints of the flagellum 

 yellow ; wings flavo-hyaline, nervures testaceous ; legs and abdomen 

 ferruginous, coxae black; apical joints of tarsi fuscous; basal margins 

 of the segments of the abdomen fuscous. 



'■'Male. Length 4^ lines. — Closely resembles the female, but has 

 the coxae yellow beneath ; abdomen fuscous, apex of the basal segment 

 yellowish, second and third segments with a large yellow spot on each 

 side, the extreme apex reddish-yellow." 



ILih. — " Mexico." Not seen. 



no. Pompilus (Agenia) caerulipes. 



Agenia coerulijies, Smith, Journal of Entomology, i, p. 397. 



'^Female. Length 5 J lines. — Nigro-aeneous, legs steel-blue; five api- 

 cal joints of antennae yellow; clypeus transverse, margined anteriorly, 

 and widely emavginate ; posterior margin of pi-othorax curved; meta- 

 thorax with bright silvery pile at its apex; wings flavo-hyaline; ante- 

 rior pair with two narrow, brown fasciae, the basal one crossing at the 

 apex of the externo-medial cell, the second at the base of the marginal 

 cell ; apex of the wings with a pale fuscous margin. Abdomen subpetio- 

 late and clothed with golden pubescence. This species when recently 

 disclosed, would probably have the head and thorax clothed with shin- 

 ing yellowish-white pile." 



Uab. — "Orizaba, Mexico." Not seen. 



