198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
had some data for this surprising assertion. The continuous or 
retarded emergence theories can hardly be invoked to explain 
away the anomaly—a butterfly emerging in March in the warm 
Midi would be extraordinarily belated to turn up fresh four 
months after the normal date. 
Melanargia galatea.—Var. procida, and variable. 
M. occitanica, Esq.—Plentiful, but local; ab. hiibneri, a few. 
Mr. Morris sent me an admirable water-colour drawing of this 
smoky aberration to name for him; it is figured by Hubner, but 
until M. Oberthur’s attention was called to the form it lacked a 
distinctive name. The nomenclature of the species bas suffered 
the usual fate; Lord Rothschild (‘Novit. Zool.’ xxi, p. 307, 
1914), restores the original occitanica of Esper (1786), which 
asa Herbst’s syllius by ten years, and Hubner’s psyche 
(1799). 
A NEW GENUS OF SCELIONIDA FROM THE WEST 
INDIES. 
By A A. Giravtt. 
Tax following genus differs from Phanurus in the greater 
size, the lateral ocelli are slightly yet distinctly separated from 
the eyes, the occiput is more strongly margined, the mandibles 
(female) tridentate, there is a median carina on the scutellum, 
the lateral margins, of the abdomen are acute or sharp, and 
the male scape is greatly dilated toward apex. 
1. Phanurcpsis semiflaviventris, n. sp. Genotype. 
Female.—Length, 1°65 mm. Ovipositor sometimes distinctly, 
shortly extruded, black. Eyes naked. Black, the wings subhyaline, 
the venation, legs, tegule, antennz except the 5-jointed club and the 
distal half of the abdomen (or somewhat more—from near the distal 
end of segment 3 to apex, sometimes less), brownish yellow. Head 
and thorax finely densely punctate, the scutum and scutellum with a 
soft, close, silvery down. Metathorax with the caudo-lateral angle 
acute or spined. Abdominal petiole transverse, longitudinally striate ; 
segment 2 (counting the petiole as 1) over thrice wider than long at 
the meson, striate for its proximal half (more or less); 3 longest, 
extending to base of distal fourth, five or more times the length of 
2, longitudinally striate at proximal fourth except at lateral margin, 
and rather broadly along the meson. Scutellum with a more or less 
distinct median carina. A small tooth on mesoventer in front of 
each middle coxa. Mandibles rather long, with three small, acute 
teeth. Abdomen depressed, conic-ovate, longer than the rest of the 
body, glabrous except distad of segment 3, where it is very slightly 
coriaceous. Lateral ocelli distinctly slightly separated from the eye, 
the occipital impression strongly margined as seen from above. 
