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entirely yellow, the wings distinctly suffused with fuscous, the face and clypeus much 

 less strongly haired, the apex of the clypeus more sharply and obliquely depressed, and 

 the head less developed behind the eyes, and more sharply retreating. 



V 



4. Philanthus multimaculatus. (Tab. vill. fig. 14, <j .) 



Niger ; capite et thorace flavo maculatis (mesonoto cum 2 lineis flavis), abdominis segmentis late pedibusque 



fere toto flavis ; alis fulvo-hyalinis, costa et stigmate fulvis. <$ . 

 Long. 9 millim. 



Eab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann). 



Clypeus flat, rounded and margined at the apex; the lateral hair-fringe very long, 

 the outer hairs reaching (when pressed) nearly to the centre of the clypeus. Ocelli in 

 a triangle ; the hinder ocelli separated from the eyes by hardly the length of the third 

 antennal joint, and from each other by more than the length of the fourth. Third 

 antennal joint more than twice the length of the fourth, and longer than the first. 

 Head shining, the pile and punctuation sparse and not very strong. Thorax shining, 

 sparsely punctured ; the median segment closely transversely rugose, its apex sharply 

 suboblique ; there are two furrows on the mesonotum. Abdomen longer than the 

 head and thorax united; sparsely covered with large, moderately deep punctures. 

 Pygidial area with a few punctures. The head in front from a little below the ocelli, 

 the mandibles (except at the base and apex), the scape and joints 3 and 4 of the 

 antennae beneath, a large mark (incised in front and projecting in the middle behind) 

 behind the ocelli, an elongated line running from the vertex down the outer orbits, 

 the pronotum broadly, a small mark on its sides, two broad lines in the centre of the 

 mesonotum, a short line in front of the tegulse, the tubercles and two spots (the interior 

 the larger and more irregular) behind them, a large mark on the mesopleura, the 

 tegulee, the scutellum and a mark on either side of it, the metanotum, two oblique 

 marks at the base of the median segment and a large one on the sides, the abdominal 

 segments broadly above and beneath, the base of the coxa?, the apical half of the 

 femora, and the tibiae and tarsi, clear yellow. The first recurrent nervure is received 

 before the middle of the cellule, the second near the base. 



B. Abdomen petiolate, imjpunctate. 



v 5. Philanthus mexicanus. 



Trachypus mewicanus, Saussure, Reise de Novara, Hymen, p. 86 ( ? ) \ 

 Philanthocephalus mewicanus, Cam. antea, p. 89, Tab. VI. figg. 5, 5 a, b (S), 6 ( ? ) 2 . 



To the Mexican localities given 2 , the following has to be added : — Tampico 1 . 



6. Philanthus punctifrons. 



Philanthocephalus punctifrons, Cam. antea, p. 90, Tab. VI. figg. 7, 7 a ($). 



