pepsinae: tribe pepsini 



99 





Figure 48. — Localities for Priocriemis cornica. 



5. Priocnemis (Priocnemis) cornica (Say) 



Pompilus (Miscus) cornicus Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 30-5, 



9 (cT misdetermined ?). Type: 9, Indiana (destroyed). 

 Potnpilus (Miscus) conicus Leconte, 1859, in The complete writings of T. Say on 



the entomology of the United States, vol. 2, p. 746 (emendation). 

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



p. 116, 9. Lectotype: 9, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). 

 Salius pompilivs (!) Dalla Torre, 1897, Catalogus hymenopterorum . . . , vol. 8, 



p. 237 (misspelling). 

 Priocnemis pompilus (!) Banks, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 63, p. 24.5 



(misspelling) . 

 Ageniella eximia Banks, 1919, Canadian Ent., vol. 51, p. 83, c?. Lectotype: cf , 



Falls Church, Va., May 30, N. Banks (Cambridge). 

 Ageniella aludra Brimley, 1928. Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 43, p. 201, 



(?. Type: cf, Raleigh, N. C. (Raleigh). 



Male: Forewing 3 to 4 mm. long; frons weakly mat, with close, 

 very fine, indistinct punctures; sixth stemite between its lateral hooks 

 smooth, Vvith hairs to the apex; exposed part of subgenital plate 

 spatulate, about 2.3 as long as wide and covered with long, rather 

 sparse, strongly recurved hairs. 



Black. Apical half of mandible rufous; apical half of middle and 

 hind femora often with a more or less extensive fulvous stain or mark; 

 wings weakly infuscate. 



Female: Forewing 4 to 7 mm. long; frons mat, \\ath very dense, 

 fine, weak, inconspicuous punctures. 



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

 wing a little darker than the hind wing. 



