To provide a female connector enabled to make ground connection suitable for a high speed signal transmission and to lessen the number of parts.

In the female connector provided with an insulation housing 102 retaining a contact 140 inside a nearly rectangular insertion-coupling concave part 104; and a shielding shell 106 made of metal cladding the housing 102, fitted to a base plate, ground connected to the base plate, the shell 106 is equipped with a face plate 120 covering at least a front face of the housing 102, and the face plate 120 is equipped with a plurality of spring contact pieces 126 to be in contact with a male connector at an upper side and a lower side of the insertion-coupling concave part 104, and further, at an underside of the face plate 120, a plurality of lingual pieces 110 are set in protrusion to be ground connected to the base plate in the vicinity of the lower-side spring contact piece 126.