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3. Ageniella (Ameragenia) salti (Banks) 



Priocnemella salti Banks, 1928, Studies on Cuban insects (Harvard Univ. Press), 

 vol. 1 p. 6, ? . Lectotype: ? , Soledad, Cuba, Feb. 16, 1925, G. Salt (Cam- 

 bridge) . 



Priocnemis osceola Banks, 1939, Canadian Ent.^ vol. 71 p. 230, 9 . Lectotype: 9 , 

 Orlando, Fla., April 18, Paige (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 4.5 mm. long; propodeum with long erect hairs; 

 seventh sternite short spatulate, a little convex, with a weak median 

 longitudinal carina. 



Blackish. Face and clypeus with a median fulvous stripe extending 

 from between the antennae nearly to the apex of the clypeus, other- 

 wise white with the white extending to the lower lateral corner of the 

 frons; legs fulvous, the upper side of the hind coxa infuscate and the 

 spurs of the middle and hind tibiae white; abdomen beneath tinged 

 with fulvous, the underside of the first segm.ent definitely fulvous. 



Female: Forewing 6.0 to 8.5 mm. long; apical hairless margin of 

 clypeus polished, separated from the rest of the clypeus by an indis- 

 tinct groove ; propodeum with numerous long erect hairs ; tibial bristles 

 numerous and long. 



Blackish. Face, clypeus, mouth parts, scape, and pedicel fulvo- 

 ferruginous; flagellum brown above, fulvous beneath; frons and 

 mesonotum with a greenish iridescence; wings hyaline; underside of 



Figure 128. — Localities for Ageniella salti. 



coxae, more or less of underside of trochanters, and femora except 

 above, dusky fulvous ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; abdomen laterally, 

 apically, and ventrally dusky fulvous, the central part of its underside 

 partly fuscous. 



Specimens: 9, Gainesville, Fla., Feb. 17, 1923, T. H. Hubbell (Ann 

 Arbor). 9, Miami, Fla., "3-31," J. N. KnuU (Washmgton). 9 (type 

 of osceola), Orlando, Fla., Apr. 18, Paige (Cambridge). 9, Miami, 

 Fla. (Washington). 9, Orange County, Fla., Apr. 18, 1930, W. M. Loe 



