THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 81 



NEW PSAMMOCHARID^ AND PHILANTHID^. 



BY NATHAN BANKS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



The following new species are mostly from the northern and northwestern 

 parts of the United States or from Canada. 



PSAMMOCHARID SC. 



Psammochares lasiope, n. sp. 



9 Black, basal part of abdomen reddish above and below, extreme base 

 of first segment black. Head, pro- and metanotum densely clothed with rather 

 long hairs. Clypeus truncate, margined; antennae slender, second plus third 

 joints fully equal vertex width, vertex from in front hardly convex; the lateral 

 ocelli nearer to each other than to the eyes; hind border of pronotum angulate; 

 base, tip, and venter of abdomen with few fine hairs, no bristles near tip of 

 abdomen; legs slender, with short spines, three in comb on basitarsus, not 

 ver>' long; inner spur of hind tibia about one-half of the basitarsus. Wings 

 nearly uniformly blackish, but not very dark; second and third submarginals 

 subequal in size, both broad above, separated by a vertical vein, and receiving 

 the recurrent veins near the middle; basal vein before transverse; in hind wings 

 the fork is interstitial with the end of the cell. 



Length 11 mm. 



From Saranac Lake, 26 Aug.; Wilmington, 20-26 Aug.; New Russia, Essex 

 Co., 18 Aug., all in New York, (Bradley). Differs from atlanticus, autumnalis, 

 marginalis, in having longer hair on metanptum and broad-topped third sub- 

 marginal cell ; the spines of the comb are about the length of those in marginalis, 

 much shorter than in autumnalis and atlanticus. 

 Anoplius depressipes, n. sp. 



9. Deep black throughout; wings uniformly black. The face is rather 

 broader below than above, the clypeus very broad, nearly truncate below, but 

 rounded at outer sides, vertex straight across, hind ocelli about as close to eyes 

 as to each other, antennae slender, second plus third joint equal vertex width; 

 pronotum behind angulate, metanotum sloping, not very long, with a deep 

 median groove, with long hair. Abdomen slender, basal and apical segments 

 hairy above, all below; legs slender, not very spiny, those on the tibiae hardly 

 one-half of the width of joint, inner spur of hind tibia about one-half of basi- 

 tarsus, anterior tarsi flattened, the outer edge angulate, concave below, no spines 

 above on basitarsus, 2 in the concavity on lower outer side. Wings moderately 

 long, second submarginal cell longer than wide, receiving the first recurreat 

 beyond middle, third submarginal fully as long as the second, narrowed above, 

 receiving the second recurrent vein riear middle, latter curved, basal vein a 

 little before the transverse; in hind wing the fork interstitial with the end of 

 the cell. The head and thorax are clothed with rather long hair. 



Length 12 to 16 mm. 



From Ithaca, N.Y., 12 July (Needham) ; Spring Creek, Decatur Co., Ga., 

 16 July, (Bradley) and Burton, Ga., 21 May, (Bradley). 



The nature of the anterior tarsus, especially the basal joint, will distinguish 

 it from our other species of this genus. 



April, 1919 



