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mens that differ somewhat otherwise from the typical form are de- 

 scribed below as a variety. 



The specimen on which the present writer's notes on Paniscus gem- 

 inatus (Say), pubhshed in the Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society of Washington (vol. 15, 1913, pp. 155-157), were based is the 

 Vienna, Virginia, specimen listed above. 



PANISCUS FALLENS, variety BARBERI, new variety. 



Differs from the typical form in its conspicuously smaller size 

 (9-12 mm.) and in having the ocelli distinctly though usually only 

 slightly removed from the eyes. The type is a female. 



Type-locality. — Cranmoor, Wisconsin. 



Allotype -locality. — Plummer Island, Maryland. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25999, U.S.N.M. 



Three females, the type taken by C. W. Hooker, one from Green- 

 ville, Texas (F. C. Bishopp), and one from Santa Fe, New Mexico 

 (T. D. A. Cockerell) ; and two males, the allotype taken at light by 

 H. S. Barber and the other on the Virginia shore of the Potomac 

 River opposite Plummer Island by H. L. Viereck. 



PANISCUS TOWNSENDI. new species. 



Female. — Length 15 mm.; antennae 13 mm. 



Temples rather broad, convex; ocelli slightly removed from eyes; 

 face distinctly broader than long and hardly a half broader than 

 frons, subopaque shagreened, sparsely punctate; clypeus nearly flat, 

 hardly half as long as broad, broadly truncate, more shining and 

 more coarsely punctate than face; antennae slender, attenuate at 

 apex, middle joints fully twice as long as thick, subapical joints 

 about a half longer than thick. Thorax shining, weakly punctate, 

 almost without shagreening; notauli long; scutellum margined to 

 apex, the intercarinal space long, hardly twice as broad at base as 

 at apex; propodeum long, nearly straight above in profile, trans- 

 versely finely striate, apophyses subobsolete ; areolet subquadrangular, 

 subsessile; recurrent interstitial, strongly curved throughout; nervulus 

 postfurcal by about half its length; postnervulus broken at upper 

 third; nervellus broken at a right angle at its upper third; legs 

 slender; apical joint of middle tarsus hardly as long as third, claws 

 small, with about eight large teeth. Abdomen slender; first tergite 

 more than five times as long as wide at apex, spiracle at basal third; 

 second tergite two and one-half times as long as wide at base, sides 

 slightly divergent; sheath about two-thirds as long as first tergite. 



Bright rufo-testaceous ; orbits j^ellow; vertex black; face paler 

 testaceous; antennae concolorous, fuscous apically; scutellum paler; 

 wings hyaline, venation brownish, stigma and costa pale: legs 

 concolorous, tibiae and tarsi paler; sheath pale fuscous. 



