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rupted subapically, or in some females not quite interrupted; second 

 sternite of female with a pair of large, weak, cusliionlike swellings 

 surmounted by a pair of weak approximate tubercles; sixth sternite 

 of male gently concave, with some long erect hairs on each side; 

 subgenital plate of male approximately flat, with a median basal 

 longitudinal elevation, and its free margin with some long hairs. 



This species group includes fulvicornis and angusticeps of North 

 America; unvfasciatus of North and South America; molestus Banks 

 1946, of South America; and (Pompilus) Priocnemioides flammipennis 

 Smith, new combination (=Pompilus ignipennis Cresson, new synony- 

 my), of the West Indies. 



5. Priocnemioides fulvicornis (Cresson) 



Pompilus (Priocnemis) fulvicornis Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 

 p. 112, cf, 9. Lectotype: 9, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). 



Forewing of male 12.5 to 16.5 mm. long, of female 14.5 to 21 mm. 

 long; temple rather full, the head almost or quite as wide at the temples 

 as at the eyes ; suberect hair on upper part of pronotum rather short ; 

 propodeum with rather fine obscure transverse wrinkling, or in the 



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male usually smooth; second sternite of female with the tubercles 

 averaging a little more prominent and farther apart than in P. angus- 

 ticeps or P. unvfasciatus; subgenital plate of male with a low, weak, 

 median longitudinal ridge that tapers from the base. 



Black. Flagellum orange; wings entirely black. 



Specimens (219 cf, 2239): From Alabama (Mobile and Tusca- 

 loosa) ; Arkansas (Arkadelphia, Hazen, and Springdale) ; District of 

 Columbia; Florida (Coconut Grove, Jacksonville, Miami, and Mic- 

 cosukee) ; Georgia (Albany, Tifton, and Warrenton) ; Illinois (Hanna 



