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ginal truncate at tip, pointed at base, third submarginal as long as second, nar- 

 rowed to one-half its length towards marginal, both submarginal cells receiv- 

 ing the recurrent nervures in the middle; legs long, slender, the posterior pair 

 very long; abdomen about as long as thorax, subpetiolate, smooth, shining, 

 fulvo-ferruginous, fourth and following segments fuscous. Length .38 inch. 

 One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belf'rage.) 



Agenia accepta. 



Agenia accepta, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 130. 

 One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Parapompilns Irevifrons. 



Fcrrcola Icevifrons, Cress. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, vii., p. 376. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Parapompilns vicinus. 



9. — Black, opaque, with a more or less strong violaceous reflection; head 

 covered with a pile like that on thorax, but less dense and faintly purplish ; 

 mandibles piceous; metathorax deeply excavated posteriorly; wings viola- 

 ceous black; abdomen much as in Icevifrons, less compressed at apex. Length 

 .53 inch. 



Three specimens. (Belfrage.) Allied to Isevifrons, but much 

 smaller and the head not smooth and polished as in that species, but 

 with a clothing as on thorax. 



Parapompilns texanus, n. sp. 



9. — Black, opaque, with a purplish sericeous reflection in certain lights, 

 head smooth and shining; metathorax transversely subconcave on posterior 

 face; wings violaceous-black; legs sericeous; abdomen beyond first segment 

 orange-ferruginous, covered with a dense silvery sericeous pile; venter black- 

 ish. Length .65— .70 inch. 



Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Parapompilns contiguns, n. sp. 



9. — Black, opaque; head shining, vertex thinly covered with a reddish- 

 brown pile, sides of face and of clypeus with a silvery-cinereous pile; mandi- 

 bles dull reddish at tips; pro- and mesothorax fulvous, with a golden sericeous 

 pile; scutellum brown-black; metathorax above stained with dull fulvous; 

 wings violaceous black, posterior pair paler; legs entirely black, sericeous, es- 

 pecially beneath; abdomen not longer than head and thorax, second and 

 third segments except narrow apical margin of the latter which is brown, ful- 

 vous, with a golden reflection; first and fourth segments deep black, two apical 

 segments silvery. Length .65 inch. 



One specimen. (Boll. Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.) Closely allied to 

 Marise, Cresson. 



Parapompilns legatus. 



Pompilus ? legatus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 109. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Boll.) 



