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Female: Forewing 7.0 to 8.5 mm. long; apical hairless margin of 

 clypeus with a broad weak median tooth, the rest of the clypeus 

 very densely pubescent; temple with about 5 long suberect hairs 

 below, near the occipital carina; propodeum with weak, irregular, 

 transverse wrinkles. 



Black. Head, pronotum, mesonotum, legs, and abdomen with a 

 strong, dark blue iridescence; forewing fuscous; hind wing subhyaline, 

 its apical part weakly infuscate. 



Specimens: 9, Poudre Canyon at 5,200 ft., Larimer County, 

 Colo., Aug. 19 to 22, 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans), d', Atlanta, Ga., 

 June 23, 1938, P. W. Fattig (Washington). 9, Sioux City, Iowa, 



Figure 117. — Localities for Ageniella cupida. 



Aug. 26, 1920, C. N. Ainslie (Washington), 9, on flowers of Euphorbia 

 marginata, Manhattan, Kans., H. E. Evans (Townes). 9, Chaffee, 

 N. Y., Aug. 6, 1934, J. G. Franclemont (Krombein). 9, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., July 25, 1890 (Cambridge). 9, Grand Canyon, Pa., Aug. 2, 



1946, S. W. Frost (Evans). 9, Highspire, Pa., Aug. 21, 1909, W. S. 

 Fisher (Cambridge), cf , Dunn Loring (near Vienna), Va., July 13, 



1947, K. V. Krombein (Krombein). 2cf, Dunn Loring, Va., July 

 22, 1951, K. V. Krombein (Kjombein and Townes). 9, Guatemala 

 City, Guatemala, June 12, 1923, E. G. Smyth (Washington). 29, Teoti- 

 huac^n, "Pyr.," Mexico, July 7, 1951, H. E. Evans (Evans and 

 Townes) . 



This is a widely distributed but uncommon species. It has been 

 taken from New York to Guatemala, and as far west as the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



