76 Psyche [Juno 



than two-tliirds the length of the post petiole, thyridia oval, spira- 

 cles of second tergite as near to the apex as to the base, abdomen 

 mostly reddish above, post petiole partly reddish, second tergite 

 with its basal half mostly black, its apex also black, third tergite 

 blackish at base, remaining tergites reddish thronghont, plica stra- 

 mineous, rest of visible sternites reddish thongh not so dark as the 

 tergites. 



Holocremnus virginiensis sp. nov. 



Type.— 2\^. 11186, M. C. Z. 



Type-locality.— Falls Church. Virginia, June 28 (JST. Banks). 



Other locality. — Glencarlyn, Virginia, June 24 (IST. Banks). 



Female. — Length 9.5 mm. ; head dullish, covered with silvery 

 pubescence, black and densely sculptured, temples and occiput shin- 

 ing and rather indistinctly punctured, transfacial line : facial liiie 

 : : 41 : 34, lateral ocellar line distinctly shorter than the post- 

 ocellar line, interocellar space coarsely reticulately sculptured, con- 

 trasting sharply with the fine reticulation along the ocellocular line, 

 lateral ocellar line distinctly shorter than the ocellocular line and 

 apparently as long as the gieatest diameter of the lateral ocelli, 

 postocellar line apparently half as long as the ocelloccipital line, 

 eyes slightly concave along the inner margin, malar line distinctly 

 shorter than the mandibles are wide at base but distinctly longer 

 than half the width of the mandibles at base, axial line : temporal 

 line : : 20 : 10, clypeus punctured and partly indistinctly striate, 

 finely sculptured between the jumctures, clypeus truncate, man- 

 dibles yellow with stramineous lower edge and l)lackish-castaneous 

 teeth, antennae black or blackish excepting the scape which is mostly 

 yellowish in front, 37-jointed, scape ap])arently twice as long as 

 thickj pedicel hardly one-third the length of the scape, joint 3 

 distinctly longer than 4 but shorter than 4+5 and at least 4 times 

 as long as its greatest thickness, following joints subequal in length 

 except the ultimate joint which is distinctly longer than the pe- 

 nultimate joint, latter joint apparently two and one-half times as 

 long as thick; thorax, colored, sculptured and pubescent much like 

 the head, mesonotum densely reticulated and punctured, in part 

 almost striate-punctate, notauli represented l\v a more coarsely 



