1921] Banks: WNearctic Fossorial Hymenoptera 19 
is plainly a little longer than the fourth; the pygidium is clothed with 
white hair; the emargination of the ventral plate is broader than in 
T. pepticus. 
Length, 13 mm. 
From Rockville and West Fairview, Penna., July and August 
(Knull and Kirk). 
Tachysphex maneeéi sp. nov., 
@. Resembles punctifrons in having long antennal joints, but with 
a narrower vertex, and the face clothed with a silvery pubescence; legs 
with black (instead of white) spurs; the head is more coarsely punctate 
than in T. punctifrons and the abdomen with four silvery bands. The 
lower edge of clypeus is evenly rounded; width of vertex about equal 
to second and third antennal joints together, much less than the third 
and fourth together, the third barely shorter than the fourth, this and 
all beyond longer than usual; dorsum of metanotum finely granulate, 
the sides finely striate; pygidial area slender, and sparsely punctate; 
marginal cell obliquely truncate. Color, wholly black. 
Length, 8.7 mm. 
From Southern Pines, N. Car., August 19, (Manee). 
Larropsis distincta var. semirufa var. nov. 
Structurally similar to the typical form, but in both sexes the 
basal two or three segments of the abdomen are bright red above. In 
the male the pygidial area is not silvery above as in the typical form, 
but is punctured in the same way. As large as the typical form, which 
it appears to replace in the north. 
From Lexington, Dennis, Provincetown and Essex Co., 
Mass., in August and September, (Morse and Banks). 
PSAMMOCHARID. 
Psammochares eurydice sp. nov. 
2. Closely resembles P. tropicus; black, with reddish on second 
segment of abdomen extending partly over the first and third segments. 
Structure of thorax, legs, abdomen, and venation about as in that 
species; the hair on basal abdominal segment is shorter and the groove 
on metanotum is not as evident. It differs in that the head is much 
more narrow, the face at vertex is hardly as wide as the second and 
third joints of the antennz together; the third joint of the antennz is 
rather longer than in Ps. tropicus, the spines of the comb of front tarsi 
are rather shorter, and the ocellar triangle is more equilateral, the 
lateral ocelli a little nearer to the eyes than to each other. 
Length, 13 mm. 
From Spring Creek, Decatur Co., Georgia, July 16, (Bradley). 
