318 PRO('EEDIN(^S OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voi,. xxxi. 



This species provisions its nests with crickets (and perhaps with 

 o-rasshoppers also). References to its capturing spiders for this pur- 

 pose are due to a confusion with th(> smaller /Scclij^hron. 



Subgenus PALMODES Kohl. 



I'ahnuilt's Koiii.. Ann. natur. Ilofnuis. Wien, V, 1890, p. 112. 

 PahiKxhx Koni,, .\nii. natnr. Ilofnius. Wien, XI, 1896, p. 318. 



Tyjx'. — Chloi'foii {P<tInio(h:'s) occilitnicinn Lepeletier and Serville, 

 Ency. Meth., X, 1825, p. 162. 



Second cubital cdl of the fore wing much higher than broad. Claws 

 Avith two blunt teeth near the base of the imier edge. Median seg- 

 ment without a stigmatal groove. Clypeus flat, with a median trun- 

 cated elongation and a .sinus at each side. Stigma of the tii"st dorsal 

 abdominal plate at or l)ehind the middle. Tarsal cond) of the female 

 developed. Comb teeth of the outer part of the hind til)ial spine 

 thorn-like or tooth-like. Inner borders of the eyes parallel in the 

 female, converging downward in the male. Last ventral abdominal 

 plate of the female laterally compressed, almost forming a longitudinal 

 edge in the middle. Ventral abdominal plates of the male flat, the 

 fourth and fifth silky sericeous. A])domen black, ferruginous, or 

 yellow. (Plate IX, fig. 11; Plate X, fig. 23.) 



CHLORION (PALMODES) L^EVIVENTRIS (Cresson.) 



Sphex kcrivevtrtH C'REHsoy, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., lA^, 1865, p. 463. 



? HarpacfopuH riifirentris Pattox, Bull. U. 8. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., V, 1880, 



p. 354. 

 Sphe.c {Palinodes) )»or/o Kohl, Ann. natur. Hofmuy. Wifen, V, 1890, p. 321. 



Typt'^. — Six female, ten male specimens, in the collection of the 

 American P^ntomological Society in Philadelphia. Though sixteen 

 specimens were studied when the description was prepared only one 

 bears a lal)cl in Cresson's handwriting, and I am told that it was his 

 custom to label but one and regard that as the tA'pe. At the present 

 time four females and four males of this lot bear printed "type" 

 labels. 



Black, quite robust, wdthout pubescence except on the front of the 

 head; wings uniformly fuliginous; hairs black. 



Fenude. — Head l)]"oad, quadrangular from above with rounded cor- 

 ners, very slightlv excavated in front between the eyes; clypeus l)road, 

 somewhat arched near the middle, the sides flat; densely brownish 

 black sericeous, and with numerous punctures and long, black hairs; 

 its anterior margin bare, smooth, slightly reflexed, with a broad 

 median truncated projection, at the side of which is a sinus beyond 

 which the edge turns upward toward the eye, near which it again 

 extends laterally to the base of the niandil)le below the eye; frons 

 densely brownish black sericeous; in some cases, together with the 

 clypeus, more or less silver}' pubescent; with scattered punctures a 



