1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 287 



Spalacopsis filum Duval. 



By some inadvertence this name was converted into linwu in 

 the synopsis of the Lamiina; (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 145 , and 

 the error was not observed till after publication. In the same 

 paper, on page 169, a similar error occurs, where Ancylocera 

 brevicornis Casey is said to be the female of Elytroleptus divisns; 

 it should have been the female of Ancylocera bicolor Oliv. 



A NEW SPECIES OF PHILANTHUS FROM NEW MEXICO. 



By S. N. DUNNING, Hartford, Conn. 



Philanthus psyche n. sp. 9- Length: body 9 mm.; of anterior wins 

 5 mm. Black, with white markings, inclined to yellowish on legs. Head 

 subquadrate, slightly broader than high, densely and firmly punctate and 

 covered with a short, sparse pubescence; clypeus, face and extension to 

 emargination of eyes and small spot back of eyes white, except extension 

 of color between the antennae is inclined to lemon-yellow, clypeus 

 rounded, and with four distinct teeth, the central incision longer and less 

 distinct than others; ocelli in a triangle, first as large as last two com- 

 bined; eyes emarginate, elongate oval, dark green; mandibles: first two- 

 thirds white, last third black; scape: antennae white at tip and below, 

 above black, but white predominating; first joint of flagellum black, 

 second black above and reddish brown below, larger at tip, remainder 

 reddish brown, lighter below. Thorax black, with collar; four elongated 

 spots on mesothorax near collar, tegulse, tubercles, slightly curved mark 

 back of same, scutellum, postscutellum, and two short lines on tneta- 

 thorax white, covered with short, sparse, whitish hair, closely and finely 

 punctate; a slight cavity between markings on metathorax, also a larger 

 cavity on posterior angle. Abdomen above more coarsely punctate than 

 thorax, faint indications of pubescence, black with a large whitish band 

 on segments 1-5, growing smaller towards tip, band on first segment con- 

 sists of two semi-circles, curving towards tip and joined by a straight line 

 on posterior side; band on second segment curved much as in first, but 

 white is extended, so that instead of being in semi-circles there are two 

 black spots in midst of white, but near posterior margin of the segment; 

 third band consists of two rounded spots joined by a straight line; fourth 

 and fifth similar, but fainter; last segment bronzed, edged with rulMis. 

 more coarsely and sparsely punctate, slightly emarginate; ventrals sparsely 

 and about as coarsely punctate as last segment above, a faint tiiiLv 

 rufous on posterior edge second segment; anterior coxae black, trochan- 

 ters white tipped inside, rest black, first half of femora black, rest whitish; 

 tibia yellow, with elongated black spot inside; tarsi yellowish, inclined to 

 rufous and armed with a series of long spines, longest in the middle; first 

 joint long as second and third combined; middle coxa- white tipped out- 



