68 Psyche [June 



tennse. Face and front flat and thickly brown and silvery gray 

 pollinose. Two rows of long reddish brown bristles on oral mar- 

 gin, a few long white hairs above, extending to antennae. Ocellar 

 bristles brown. Cilia of posterior orbit brown. Antennae black, 

 gray pruinose. First two joints of antennae with brown bristles. 

 One strong bristle beneath second joint. Third joint flat and 

 slightly longer than first two joints together. Style rather slender 

 acuminate, and less than half as long as third segment. Post- 

 alars and supra-alars quite long and brown in color. White pile 

 on scutellum and just in front of. Legs medium slender, rounded. 

 Tibiae and tarsi very spinose. Femora hairy. Hind metatarsi 

 with many short strong spines beneath. Hind femora slender on 

 basal two-thirds and with a club-like thickening toward the end. 

 Hind tarsi thick and heavy. Metatarsus almost as long as three 

 following joints. Legs reddish yellow, the tarsi dark brown dis- 

 tally. Front femora dark brown. Bristles of legs reddish yellow 

 and pile white. Wings elongate and variegated with blackish 

 brown, basal third being hyaline. Tip of anal cell blackish, pos- 

 terior cells in part blackish. Fifth posterior cell all black. Hya- 

 line spot in marginal cell. Discal cell all dark. 



Type— v. S. N. M., Cat. No. 20200. 



Habitat — Redlands, Cal, April, 1914. 



There are three paratypes in the \J. S. N . M. collection. These 

 are all males. Two are labeled "Los Angeles Co., Cal., Co- 

 quillett," and in these the abdomen is more of a reddish color than 

 in the type. The other specimen is labeled "September, Los 

 Angeles Co., Cal." and is smaller and lighter in color than the 

 others, the abdomen being yellow. These specimens are probably 

 faded to some extent but agree very well with the type. As in the 

 described specimen the venter is brown with silvery pollinose 

 areas, and is thickly dotted with small dark brown spots. The 

 wings are marked as in the type but are more of a brownish color. 

 The tj'pe was taken on a sandy plot of ground in the foothills south 

 of Redlands, Cal. 



This species is quite close to abdominalis, but does not have 

 the tinge of red on the thorax. The last segment of the abdomen 

 is narrower, and the bluish black color of the abdomen is confined 

 to the base of the first and second segments. In lomo' the brown of 

 the wings is cut off sharply and does not spread into the basal 



