Sept., 1904] ViERECK AND COCKERELL : PhILANTHID.E. 145 



coxae brownish to black, tibire yellow, a brown stripe on the under side, tarsi yellow, 

 the apical joints brownish like the claws, pulvilli blackish. 



Abdomen : Segments I and 2 more closely punctured than the dorsulum, yellow, 

 except a basal black border which widens into a triangle laterally and an apical black 

 border ; the remaining segments not so distinctly punctured as the first two ; seg- 

 ments 3, 4 and 5 with a sinuate, narrow yellow band on the apical margin; apical 

 segments black ; venter black. 



Entire insect covered with a sparse silvery pubescence, the hairs longest on the 

 head and metathorax. 



Habitat. — San Marcial, New Mexico (Cockerell, 31 18). 



Philanthus crotoniphilus, new species. 



$ . 9 mm. Head : front very closely punctured, dullish ; vertex rather sparsely 

 punctured, shining; cheeks finely rather closely punctured; front with a median 

 impressed line between the antenni^ ; sides of the face more shining, not so closely 

 punctured as the vertex ; clypeus indistinctly punctured ; front yellow except the 

 black dot on each side of the clypeus, the black margin of the clypeus, the black 

 around the insertion of the antenna which is fused with a broad band of black on the 

 front that connects with the black vertex and is united by a narrow band in front of 

 the anterior ocellus, cheeks black with a yellow spot, mandibles yellow ; malar space 

 longer than the pedicellum ; third joint of antenna longer than 4+5, shorter than 

 4 -f 5 -|- 6, antennae entirely black, eyes greenish. 



Thorax : Pronotura as in punctinudus ; dorsulum rather closely punctured except 

 posteriorly where the punctures become sparse, a median impression more closely 

 punctured than the adjoining area ; dorsulum black ; tegul^e, base of wings and tuber- 

 cles yellow ; mesopleura polished, distinctly rather sparsely punctured and with a trans- 

 verse median impressed line on the superior half where the punctures are closest ; 

 scutellum punctured like mesopleura, black with a yellow spot on each side ; postscu- 

 tellum not so distinctly punctured, yellow ; metathorax dullish, rather closely punc- 

 tured, the median impression of the superior face rugulose, the median impression of 

 the posterior face punctured like the adjoining area ; a yellow band on the metapleura 

 bordering the posterior face ; tegulas and base of wings yellowish, stigma and costa 

 testaceous, nervures brownish ; transverse median nervure received basad of the basal, 

 first recurrent nervure received by the second submarginal cell before the middle, 

 second recurrent nervure received by the third submarginal cell before the basal fourth, 

 stigma and nervures colored as in punctinudus ; coxds and trochanters black except 

 the yellow tips in some cases, femora black, the four anterior ones with nearly all of 

 apical half yellow, the posterior two with apex yellow, tibiss and tarsi yellow, the 

 apical joints of the tarsi and the claws brownish, pulvilli blackish. 



Abdomen : first and second segments coarsely punctured, the punctures nearly 

 adjoining, in addition the first segment has fine punctures on the basal and apical 

 margins ; first segment with a broad yellow band across the middle nearly interrupted 

 medially ; second segment yellow with a narrow basal black band which is enlarged 

 along the middle line and on the sides ; third segment with sparse, large, shallow 

 punctures, all of apical half and a little more covered with a yellow band widest 

 laterally ; segments 4-5 and 6 with a yellow band close to the apical margin, broadest 



