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Figure 43. — Localities for Priocnemis germana. 



1. Priocnemis {Priocnemis) germana (Cresson) 



Plate 2, figube 22 



Pompilus {Priocnemis) germanus Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 



p. 116, ?. Lectotype: 9 , Delaware (Philadelphia) . 

 Pompilus (Agenia) iridipennis Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 



p. 127, c?. Lectotype: cf, West Virginia (Philadelphia). 



Male: Forewing 4 to 7 mm. long; clypeus with the apical margin 

 specialized, the specialization varying from a sublateral thickening or 

 weak impression of the margin to a very large deep pit in the same 

 position; frons subpolished, with sharp punctm-es separated by about 

 0.2 their diameter. The stronger specialization of the clypeus occurs 

 usually in larger males. In these there is a tendency for the clj^peus 

 to be narrower than usual and the head is always swollen postero- 

 dorsally. In all other Nearctic species of this subgenus the apical 

 margin of the clj^peus is simple and sharp in both sexes and the head 

 is of normal shape. Middle third of sixth sternite smooth; exposed 

 part of subgenital plate tongue-shaped, about 1.3 as wide as long, 

 overed with short oblique hairs. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous; front tarsus and front side 

 of front tibia usually fulvous; wings subhyaline, the apical third of 

 the forewing weakly infuscate. 



Female: Forewing 6 to 10 mm. long; frons mat, with small very 

 close punctures; clypeus with a weak, median, transverse, subapical 

 swelling. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous ; wings subhyaUne, the fore- 

 mng with a narrow indefinite infuscation along the basal vein and 

 its apical third moderately infuscate, with a conspicuous hyaline area 

 covering the basal 0.7 of the fourth cubital cell; apex of hind wing 

 weakly infuscate. 



