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2. AGENIA CALLISTO. _A._ nigra, pilis sericeis vestita; facie thoraceque
subtus pube argentato-alba dense: vestitis; alis fasciis duabus
angustis.
_Female._ Length 8 lines. Black; the face, clypeus, and cheeks with a
dense silvery-white pile; the tips of the mandibles obscurely
ferruginous, the palpi black. Thorax with a brilliant silvery-white pile
on the sides, beneath, and on the coxae; the metathorax transversely
rugose; the wings hyaline; the anterior pair with a narrow fuscous
fascia at the apex of the externo-medial cell, and a second rather
broader at the base of the marginal cell, which does not quite cross the
wing; the apex of the wing fuscous. Abdomen petiolated, smooth and
shining, with a beautiful glossy pile, which is most dense at the sides;
the apical segment longitudinally subcarinated in the middle above.
_Hab._ Aru.
3. AGENIA JUCUNDA. _A._ nitida nigra; facie metathorace abdomineque pube
sericea vestitis; antennis, pedibus, abdominisque marginibus apicalibus
ferrugineis; alis hyalinis.
_Female._ Length 5-1/2 lines. Black; head, pro- and mesothorax, as well
as the scutellum, glassy-smooth and shining; the face covered with
silvery-white pile; the antennae, tips of the mandibles, and the legs
ferruginous; the palpi elongate and pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax: the
wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures very slender and pale
rufo-testaceous, the stigma fuscous; the metathorax rounded behind,
transversely rugose, and covered with silvery-white pile. Abdomen
petiolated; the apical margins of the second and following segments
ferruginous, the apical segment entirely so; the ferruginous band on
each segment produced in the middle into an angular shape; on the
abdomen beneath they are similarly produced; the basal segment entirely
ferruginous, with a black spot on each side.
_Hab._ Aru.
4. AGENIA ALTHEA. _A._ nigra; facie pube argentato-alba vestita, thorace
abdomineque sericeo pubescentibus; alis hyalinis, venis nigris.
_Female._ Length 5 lines. Black; the face silvery; the anterior margin
of the clypeus rounded and narrowly smooth and shining; tips of the
mandibles ferruginous; the mandibles elongate and pale rufo-testaceous.
Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright
silvery-white pubescence; the coxae, the thorax beneath and on the sides,
with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiae and tarsi, and all
the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and
iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulae testaceous.
Abdomen shining, and with a fine silvery sericeous pile; the apical
margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the terminal segment with
an elongate, smooth, shining space, which extends to the apex, which is
testaceous.
_Hab._ Aru.
5. AGENIA ALCYONE. _A._ nigra, pilis sericeis cinereis vestita; antennis
pedibusque ferrugineis, alis hyalinis; abdomine petiolato; marginibus
apicalibus segmentorum flavis.
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