144 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Other localities : Victoria, Texas, from Trichobaris texana 

 (J. D. Mitchell coll.), and from Arceocerus fascicidatus (Hal- 

 lettsville, Texas). 



Type, Cat. No. 30821, U. S. Nat. Miis. 



P. magnificus, female, is much larger ; its sculpture is more 

 thimble-like ; the metanotum is finely reticulated medially ; the 

 propodeum is covered with thimble-like punctures and without 

 a row of pits along median carina ; mesopleurae and metapleurse 

 covered with strong reticulations ; all coxae green ; rest of legs 

 light ferruginous ; hind tibiae with medial spines not arranged 

 in a straight row and toward apex of tibiae often three abreast ; 

 hind femora beneath apically with a few short blunt teeth ; hya- 

 line band on forewing complete ; stigmal vein short, about one- 

 fourth as long as postmarginal, the latter about three-fourths 

 as long as marginal. The male of magnificus has the spines on 

 hind tibiae as in the female and the stigmal vein is less than half 

 as long as postmarginal. 



Perilampus chrysopas var. laevicephalus, new variety. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Differs from chrysopce in being 

 blue, the mesonotum somewhat blue-green, the antennae darker, 

 being reddish only at tips ; the face with the wrinkling above 

 antennae almost obsolete ; the tibiae entirely bluish, except that 

 the anterior and middle have a little light color at apex. 



Male. — Length, 2 mm. Resembles the female except that the 

 face is more distinctly wrinkled, not as distinctly as in chry- 

 sop(r nor do the wrinkles extend downward so far, being obso- 

 lete below upper third of scape. 



Described from 2 females and 1 male reared at the Califor- 

 nia State Insectary from Chrysopa calif ornica. 



Type, Cat. No. 20822, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



