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pronotiun rather elongate, especially in the male (not elongate in 

 any of the other subgenera) ; mesopleuron without an oblique carina 

 at the front end of its transverse suture ; propodeum posteriorly with 

 a few inconspicuous suberect hairs; brush on inner side of hind tibia 

 with a wide subapical interruption; hind tibia of female with two 

 external rows of teeth, the dorsal row longer and comprised of stronger 

 teeth than the subdorsal row, the tibia not longitudinally concave 

 between the two rows; sixth sternite of male with the apical margin 

 weakly concave, the surface of the sternite with a median longitudinal 

 low polished ridge which is highest apically; subgenital plate rounded 

 to an apical point with a median longitudinal pohshed ridge and 

 sloping away to each side, the apical edge of the plate with a fringe 

 of short stout setae. 



Face and tibial spurs of both sexes blackish. 



Only one species is known, the Nearctic and Neotropic longula. 



5. Ageniella (Netnagenia) longula (Cresson) 



Pompilus (Agenia) longulus Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, p. 129, 



cT. Type: cf, Dakota (Philadelphia). 

 Agenia longa Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. See, vol. 4, p. 205, "9"=c?'. 



Type: cf, Texas (Philadelphia). 

 Priocnemis directa Banks, 1912, Canadian Ent., vol. 44, p. 197, [ 9 ]. Lectotype: 



9, Lee County, Tex., August, Birkmann (Cambridge). 

 Priophanes otiosa Banks, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 96, p. 442, 9. 



Type: 9, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Cambridge). 



Figure 97. — Localities for Ageniella longula. 



Male: Forewing 4.5 to 6.3 mm. long. Blackish. Wings subhyaline, 

 the apical part of the forewdng brownish; abdomen rufous, sometimes 

 infuscate beyond the fourth segment. 



Female: Forewing 5.5 to 10.5 mm. long. Blackish. Wings rather 

 uniformly light brown; abdomen rufous. 



