»» (May, 



Now look upwards, The earth-light dimly reddens the moon 

 encircled by the corona. Venus beams forth brilliantly from a blue- 

 black sky oi quasi night. The air is humid ; no other star is visible 

 to the unaided eye. 



The 3| minutes of totality are almost ended. It grows lighter 

 in the north-west ; lighter at Burgos. Suddenly, at the moon's edge, 

 out bursts a dazzling bead of incandescent silver. Totality is over. 

 South-eastwards all was blue as the eastern sky at break of day, till 

 the shadow sped over the mountains out of sight. By the time that 

 the shadow of totality was passing off, a Casella's pocket thermometer 

 showed a fall in temperature of about 30° F., from about 80° F. to 

 50° F. 



LIST OF SPECIES CAPTURED. 



S'phex alhisectus, Lep., S • Tachysphex panzeri, v. d. Lind., S • Cerceris ferreri, 

 V. d. Lind., 9 . Pterochilus chevrieranus, Sauss, 9 . Colletes ligatus, Ev., ? . Sphe- 

 codes suhquadmhis, 8mith, $. Halictus scahiosip., Rossi, S ; interru,dus,'Pz., ^; 

 platycestus, Dours., ?; punctatissimus, Schk., ?; sp. ? ; virescens, Lep., <^ . An- 

 drena thoracica, F., ? , 3 ; hypopolia, Per., MS., 2 ? . Panurgus arctns, Er., 3 S 

 1 ?. MegacMle maritima,K., 2 ?. Anthiddum laterale, Ltr., <? . Bomhus ter- 

 restris, L., 2 § ; cullumanus, K., <? , 2 ^ ; Isesus, Mor., 4 $ . Apis melli^ca, L., $ . 



Of the above, Bomhus cullumanus and Jcbsus are both interesting 

 captures ; the workers of cullumanus have got the 1st and 2nd 

 abdominal segments clothed with yellow hairs as in our British 

 examples. — E. S. 



March, 1906. 



A NEW SPECIES BELONGING TO THE GENUS ANTICSIRA, 



ESCHSCHOLTZ. 

 BY THE REV. W. W. FOWLER, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S. 



Antichiea nevinsoni, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovata, convexa, laete olivaceo-viridis, capite obscuriori ; prothorace 

 longitudine duplo latiori, apicem versus gradatim sat fortiter angustato, basi ad 

 scutellum utrinque fortiter sinuata ; seutello niagno ; elytris separatim flavo- 

 testaceo regulariter marginatis, lineis tribus longitudinalibus in disco cujusque 

 flaro-testaceis, exteriori brevi, intermedia marginem basalera attingente, rainutissime 

 distauter seriatim punctatis ; pygidio virescente, leviter punctato ; corpore subtus 

 viridi-seneo, metasterno processu sat longo instructo, ad apicem obtuse rotundato ; 

 prosterno et mesosterno sat dense, metasterno parcius piloso ; pedibus viridi-seneis, 

 femoribus plus rainusve pilosis, tibiis spinis par vis nigris seriatim instructis. 



Oblong-ovate, strongly convex, of a bright olivaceous green colour, vrith the ^' 



head darker ; prothorax unicolorous, twice as broad as long, with the sides gradually 



