78 Psyche [June 



Type-locality. — Glencarlyii, A^irginia, June 8, 17, 30, July 2, on 

 flowers of Ceanothus aniericana (Xathan Banks). 



Other localities. — Great Falls, June 25 and Sept. 21, and Falls 

 Church, Ya., June 11, 27 (N. Banks), Plmnmer Island, Maryland, 

 Aug. 25, 1907 (A. K. Fisher). 



Female. — Length 11 mm.; head dullish, covered with silvery 

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

 ing and rather distinctly punctured, transfacial line : facial line 

 :: 44 : 37, lateral ocellar line hardly more than half as long as 

 the postocellar line and apparently a little shorter than the ocel- 

 locular line and as long as the greatest diameter of the lateral ocelli, 

 postocellar line a])parently a little longer than the ocelloccipital 

 line, eyes slightly concave, along the inner margin, malar line more 

 than half as long as the mandil^les are wide at base, occiput extend- 

 ing distinctly behind a vertical plane tangent to the hind ocelli, 

 axial line : temporal line : : 22 : 10, clypeus almost rugoso punc- 

 tate, with adjoining punctures, truncate, mandibles yelloAv with 

 brownish stramineous lower edge and castaneous teeth with blackish 

 tips, palpi pale, antenna? black except for the apical edge of scape 

 and pedicel which is stramineous, 44- jointed, scape nearly as thick 

 as long, pedicel apparently less than half the lengih of the scape, 

 joint 3 distinctly longer than 4 but shorter than 4+5 and at least 

 three times as long as thick, following joints subequal in length 

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

 nultimate joint, the latter joint apparently one and one-half times 

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

 like the head, mesonotum densely reticulated and punctured, in 

 part striato-punctate, notauli present on the anterior third and 

 transversely striate, pronotum more or less striate all over, meso- 

 pleurse and mesoternum mostly punctured and finely reticulated, 

 the upper half of the former partly striate, partly sculptureless, 

 scutel and metanotum more densely sculptured than mesonotum 

 though apparently not more densely covered with pubescence, wings 

 almost colorless, with a uniformly distributed brownish tinge, sub- 

 costa and stigma blackish, rest of veins dark brownish stramineous 

 except bulla? which are whitish and the cubitus beyond the second 

 transverse cubitus which is paler beyond its first ninth than its 



