TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 205 



Priocnemis validus. 



Priocnemis validus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 116. 

 Two $ specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Priocnemis nothus. 



Priocnemis nothus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 1 18. 

 One $ specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Priocnemis nuperus. 



Priocnemis nuperus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 118. 

 One $ specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Priocnemis facetus, n. sp. 



9 . — Small, uniformly pale ferruginous, shining ; antennae paler, sericeous ; 

 posterior margin of prothorax arcuate ; metathorax smooth, convex, closely 

 and minutely punctured; wings dusky hyaline, a fuscous band on apical 

 fourth, a large spot covering marginal, second and third submarginal and apex 

 of discoidal cells and the extreme apex also fuscous, marginal cell long, lance- 

 olate, apex acute, the second and third submarginal cells much as in Agenia 

 accepta, Cress. (Trans, etc. i., p. 130, fig. 11) ; legs long, slender, posterior tarsi 

 fuscous; abdomen polished, dusky towards apex which is clothed with yellow- 

 ish hair. Length .27 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Agenia Belfragei, n. sp. 



%. — Black, opaque, clothed with short black pubescence; tips of mandi- 

 bles ferruginous; head not wider than thorax; antennae robust, gradually nar- 

 rowed to apex; thorax long, subcompressed, sides parallel, posterior margin of 

 prothorax arcuate; metathorax rounded, finely and densely punctured; wings 

 ample, dark yellow, tinged with dusky, especially at apex which is narrowly 

 margined with fuliginous; abdomen very closely and minutely punctured, 

 sutures between first, second and third segments constricted, apex emarginate, 

 fringed with long black pubescence. Length .60 inch. 



Two specimens. (Belfrage.) Easily known by the yellow wings 

 and long black body. 



Agenia architectus. 



Pompilus architectus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 303. 

 One $ specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Agenia mellipes. 



Pompt/us mellipes, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 304. 



One 9 specimen. (Heiligbrodt.) 



Agenia longa, n. sp. 



J. — Form long, narrow, parallel, black, impunctured, thinly covered with 

 a fine pale sericeous pile; anterior margin of clypeus shining, truncate; man- 

 dibles piceous; antennae as long as head and thorax, slender; thorax long, 

 sides parallel, posterior margin of prothorax subangular; metathorax long, 

 convex, even; wings smoky hyaline, darker at tips, marginal cell broadly 

 rounded at tip, not reaching beyond third submarginal cell, second submar- 



