called SiMBLEPHiLUs, and the latter Philan- 

 THus, by Jurine. 



The name of this genus is compounded of 

 the Greek words <p\y^iZ, I love, and ^v^^?. a flower. 



PHILANTHUS CANALICULATUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pale yellow ; vertex, disk of the thorax, and 

 incisures of the tergum reddish-brown. 



SYNONYM. 



P. CANALICULATUS. NoMs. Westem Quarterly 

 Reporter^ vol. ii. p. 79. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body pale yellow; vertex reddish-brown; 

 front with two longitudinal reddish-brown lines 

 passing through the base of the antennae ; an- 

 tennse rufous, black at tip: mandibles black at 

 tip : superior ivings with a longitudinal brownish 

 line on the middle from near the base to the tip ; 



PLATE 49. 



