PHILANTnUS. 295 



b. Clypeus not carinate ; head and thorax 

 anteriorly coarsely punctured. Length 

 $ 8 mm P. pukhernmm, p. 299. 



530. Philanthns nigriceps, Bingh. Jour. Linn. Soc 1896, p. 441. 



c? . Head finely and closely puuctnred, thorax smooth and 

 shining, the mesonotuiu, scutellum, and postscutellum with a few 

 distant punctures, the median .segment smooth and impunctate at 

 base and down a medial line to the apex, the apex on each side 

 closely punctured and pubescent ; the legs punctured and covered 

 with a thin pubescence ; abdomen shining, with the bases of 

 segments 2-5 broadly depressed, the depressed parts forming 

 transverse bands very finely transversely striate ; the basal segment, 

 the apical margins of the 2nd- 5th and the 6th and 7th segments 

 entirely finely and distantly punctured, the anal segment slightly 

 pubescent above and below. A remarkable feature is the clvpeus, 

 which is porrect and broadly emarginate in the middle anteriorly. 

 Head and thorax black, abdomen dark chestnut-red ; the mandible, 

 except at apex, the clypeus, two spots above it, the inner orbits 

 broadly below diminishing in width upwards, two large spots 

 behind the eyes, a line on the pronotum, a spot before the teguhe, 

 a line on the postscutellum anteriorly, large triangular subapical 

 spots on abdominal segments 1-4, and an irregular line interrupted 

 in the middle on the 5th segment above yellow ; legs rufo-piceous, 

 the anterior femora, tibiae, and tarsi, and the femora at apex, the 

 tibiae, and tarsi of the posterior legs with a deep fulvous tinge ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegulae tes- 

 taceous, pubescence fulvous. 



Hah. North- AVest Provinces, c? . Length 13; e.vp. 24 mm. 



531. Philanthus depredator, Smith, Cat. iv. p. 470, j ; Cam. Mem. 

 Manch. L. Fh. Soc. (4) iii, 1890, p. 248. 



$ . Head, mesonotum, the pleurae, and the basal abdominal 

 segment very closely and somewhat finely punctured ; the pro- 

 notum, scutellum, postscutellum, median segment, and the 2nd 

 and following segments of the abdomen with a few fine scattered 

 punctures ; clypeus broad, anterior and posterior margins deeply 

 bisinuate, the surface very finely and minutel}' aciculate : median 

 segment shining, a very short and rather dee]), medial, longi- 

 tudinal furrow at base having a fine carina along the bottom and 

 the space between the carina and the sides of the furrow \^'ith a 

 single row of punctures. Ferruginous red, the base of the 

 mandibles, the clypeus, a crescentic mark above it, an oval spot 

 above that on the front, the sides of the face to the sinus of the 

 eyes, the scape in front, the posterior margin of the pronotum, the 

 tegulae, a line on the anterior femora and on the intermediate 

 tibiae beneath, a large spot on each side of the 2nd and 3rd 

 abdominal segments at base above, a crescentic mark on each 



