pepsinae: tribe macromerini 141 



Genus Phanagenia Banks 



Phanagenta Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 18. Type: (Phanagenia osceola 

 Banks) = bonibycina Cresson; original designation. 



Clypeiis of male with a specialized apical margin, of female large, 

 convex, and with the apex projecting as a broadly rounded lobe as in 

 Auplopus; mentum of female with a brush of about 20 long stout 

 setae which are not parted into right and left groups; front tibia with- 

 out one of its apical bristles specialized; dorsal edge of hind tibia 

 smooth; last tarsal segment without distinct preapical bristles be- 

 neath in the male, but with them in the female; propodeum without 

 long erect hairs; first tergite with a fine line or fold separating off the 

 epipleuron ; female mth an oval, bare pygidial area. 



Phanagenia is close to the large and variable genus Auplopus, but in 

 the Western Hemisphere, where it is represented only by the geno- 

 type, it is distinct in the characters mentioned in the key. Old World 

 species that might be referable to Phanagenia are as follows: An un- 

 determined African species represented in Cambridge by two females 

 seems to be a typical Phanagenia; the Madagascan Agenia macula 

 Saussure 1891, as represented b}'- both sexes in Cambridge (deter- 

 mined by Banks), may be a Phanagenia but the mental bristles of the 

 female are rather sparse and male clypeus simple; the Australian 

 Fahriogenia incompta Banks 1941, represented by the female type in 

 Cambridge, has the mental bristles and bristles on the under side of 

 the fifth tarsal segments as in Phanagenia, but lacks the suture sepa- 

 rating the epipleuron of the first tergite. 



Phanagenia bonibycina (Cresson) 



Pompilus {Agenia) hombycinus Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 

 p. 125, cf, 9. Lectotype: 9, West Virginia (Philadelphia). 



Ageniella annecta Banks, 1911, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 233, ? . Type: 

 9 , Falls Church, Va. (Cambridge). 



Phanegenia osceola Banks, 1933, Psyche, vol. 40, p. 18, 9- Type: 9, Miami, 

 Fla. (Cambridge). 



Biology: Walsh and Riley, Amer. Ent., 1869, vol. 1, pp. 131-133, 136, 163.— 

 Peckham, 1898, On the instincts and habits of the solitary wasps, Wisconsin 

 Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 2, pp. 164-165; 1905, Wasps social and solitary, 

 pp. 244-247.— Savin, 1924, Nat. Hist., vol. 24, pp. 520-522. 



Male: Forewing about 8 mm. long. Structure as indicated for 

 the genus, the distorted clypeus being particularly distinctive. Black. 

 Wings subhyaline, the forewing weakly infuscate apically. 



Female: Forewing about 9 mm. long. Structure as indicated for 

 the genus. Wings weakly to strongly infuscate, the hind wing a little 

 paler than the forewing. 



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