126 E. T. CRESSON. 



1»2. Pompilus (Agenia) varipes. n. sp. 



Female. — Black, clothed with a dense ashy-sericeous pile; anterior 

 margin of the clypeus sinuous ; tips of mandibles piceous ; prothorax 

 broadly margined posteriorly, the posterior edge arcuate; metathorux 

 silvery, finely sculptured, with scattered deeper punctures, and a finely 

 impressed line down the middle ; wings hyaline, the extreme tip dusky; 

 marginal and subuiarginal cells shaped much as in the preceding spe- 

 cies, except that the third submarginal cell is larger, longer and more 

 narrowed towards the marginal; legs black, tips of anterior femora, their 

 tibia) and most of their tarsi fulvous, as well as the extreme tips of the 

 four posterior tibiae; the tarsi tinged with testaceous; abdomen ovate, 

 convex, petiolate, shining, pruinose, the apical segment with a large 

 ovate polished space surrounded by long pale hairs. Length 5 lines. 



llab. — Illinois, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 



One 9 specimen. Closely allied to bomb^cinus, but the thorax is 

 broader and the legs differently colored. 



93. Pompilus (Agenia) pulchrinus, n. sp. 



Mdle. — Slender, black, clothed with fine, silvery-white pubescence ; 

 broad anterior orbits not reaching the summit of the eyes, narrow pos- 

 terior orbits, the clypeus, except a large square spot on the middle, 

 and the mandibles, except extreme- base and apex, white ; clypeus 

 large, sinuous anteriorly ; antennae long, filiform, opaque-black above, 

 testaceous beneath, especially beyond the middle; posterior margin of 

 the prothorax angular; scutellum prominent, convex; metathorax 

 smooth, rounded, and densely silvery ; wings hyaline, slightly irides- 

 cent, the apical margin I'uliginous; w^ng-cells as in Fig. 8. <?; legs 

 long, slender, black ; coxae silvery, the anterior pair with a broad white 

 stripe in front ; extreme tips of the anterior femora, a stripe on tlieir 

 tibi;e exteriorly, and a band on the three basal joints of the four ante- 

 rior tarsi, yellowish-white ; all the tibial spurs are white; abdomen 

 ovate, subpetiolate, subdepressed, posterior margins of the segments 

 subhyaline, the apical segment more or less whitish. Length 41 — 5 

 lines. 



JI(lb.—^Ycst Virginia, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 



Two S specimens. Easily recognized by the white markings of the 

 liead and front coxae. 



94. Pompilus (Agenia) agilis, n. sp. 



Male. — Very slender, black, clothed with a silvery pile, very bril- 

 liant on the face, metathorax and coxae; clypeus small and truncate in 

 front, densely covered with silvery pubescence, as well as the mandi- 



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