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CHARLES A. BLAKE. 



Untilla puteola. — 9 • — Ferruginous; head round, wider than the thorax , 

 closely and evenly punctured; eyea round, large, cheeks clothed with white 

 sericeous pubescence, antennae fuscous; thorax elongate-ovate, narrowed to 

 apex, closely and regularly punctured, sides slightly sericeous; legs fuscous, 

 thinly clothed with scattered white hairs; abdomen ovate, basal segment 

 clothed with sericeous white pubescence, second closely and regularly punc- 

 tured, its apical margin fringed at sides with silvery pubescence, fuscous at 

 middle, third segment fuscous, apex paler. Length 5 mm. 



Hab. — Texas. Three specimens. Allied to pygmea Blake, from 

 which it differs by the narrow thorax, and in being destitute of the 

 long hairs of the abdomen. 



Agania bacolor. — %. — Head and thorax dark honey-yellow, thinly 

 clothed with erect white pubescence; head subquadrate, posterior angles 

 rounded, finely punctured; eyes round, large, prominent; antennae fuscous 

 toward the tips; tips of mandibles fuscous; thorax ovate, narrowed posteriorly, 

 closely punctured, metathorax roundly truncate, broadly reticulate; wings 

 hyaline, faintly tinged with yellowish toward apex, marginal cell ovate, first 

 submarginal narrow, second subtriangular, receiving the first recurrent about 

 the middle; tegulse round, honey-yellow; legs fuscous, paler about the joints, 

 clothed with fine white pubescence, calcaria long; abdomen fuscous, ovate, 

 petiolate, petiole subsessile with the second segment, smooth, minutely and 

 remotely punctured, thinly clothed with long, erect white pubescence. Length 

 5 mm. 



Hah. — Texas, Two specimens. Allied to Nokomis Blake, but 

 may be easily separated by the small size, and the triangular second 

 submarginal cell. 



Agania ampla. — %. — Head transverse, small, black, polished, eyes and 

 ocelli large, prominent; mandibles honey-yellow before the tips, antennae 

 fulvous; thorax elongate-ovate, narrowed to apex, dark honey-yellow, shining, 

 metathorax tapering posteriorly, smooth, flanks of mesothorax swollen; wings 

 as long as entire insect, hyaline, iridescent, marginal cell short, arcuate, lying 

 almost entirely beneath the stigma which is large, lanceolate, fuscous, first 

 submarginal as large as the second and third together, second small, triangular, 

 receiving the first recurrent near the base, third subquadrate, receiving the 

 second recurrent near the middle; tegulse honey-yellow; legs pale honey- 

 yellow, thinly clothed with yellow pubescence; abdomen elongate-ovate, petio- 

 late, petiole long, thinly clothed with white hairs, second and following seg- 

 ments fuscous, with the apical margins dark honey-yellow, clothed with a few 

 scattered hairs. Length 14 — 16 mm. 



Hah. — Colorado. Two specimens. Allied to alcanor Blake, but 

 may be easily separated by the form of the metathorax. 



Againa rustica. — % . — Head round, as wide as the thorax, honey-yellow, 

 clothed with erect fulvous hairs; eyes and ocelli prominent, antennse fuscous, 

 as long as the head and thorax, flagellum pruinose ; thorax black, disc of meso- 

 thorax clothed with coarse fulvous pubescence, metathorax roundly truncate, 

 coarsely and broadly reticulate; wings yellowish hyaline, clouded about the 



