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apical two-thirds, dark brown to almost black, the rest of the insect more 

 or less yellow. Wings deep yellowish brown, nervures dark brown. 

 cf Length 25 mm. — Excepting the sexual differences, similar to the ?. 



The 9 from San Jo.se Del Cabo, L. California. The S Jilotlan 

 Jalisco, Mexico. While identifying the latter .specimen it was 

 found tw^o species had been confu.sed under P. carnifex Fabr. 



Polistes major Beauv. 



PoHstes major Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer., p. 206, pi. viii, fig. i. 



Polistes carnifex Sauss. in part. Etud. Fam. Vespid., ii, 90, 1853. 



Polistes carnifex Fox in part. Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., iv, 112, 1895. 



Clypeus 9 more quadrate than deltoid, not so distinctly convex. Cly- 

 peus in (J as long as wide. 



$ Length 20 mm. — Surface of face between the insertion of antennae 

 only slightly raised, a short longitudinal impressed line just above. Other- 

 wise the sculpture and color pattern is much the same are in P. cartii/ex. 



% Length 20 mm. 



The structural differences given and the size readily separate 

 this species from the large P. car?iifcx Fabr. 



Mazatlan, Mexico. San Domingo. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 



A New Phasmid from Mexico. 



By A. N. Caudell. Washington, D. C. 



In the collection of in.sects made in Mexico some years ago 

 by Dr. E. Palmer, was a single specimen of a new species of 

 walking stick, with short antennae, belonging to the genus 

 Bacillus as u.sed by Scudder for the United States .species.* 

 This insect may Ixi called luuillus palnicri and described as 

 follows : 



General color testaceous, much lighter below and on the head ; dor- 

 sally, except on the head and pronotum, almost black. Head as long 

 again as broad, enlarging from behind forwards and longitudinally at- 

 tached, light testaceous, slightly paler below and with a dark postocular 

 stripe, scarcely rejiching the thorax, just at the upper margin of the eye 

 is a short slender black line ; dorsally between the antennie two carinje 

 start, and after proceeding backwards a short distance, i)reak up into an 

 irregular mass of smaller tortuous carinie, and then continue on as tliree 

 sub-parallel carina-, all of which terminate about midway of the head, 

 the space between them somewhat infuscated. The antenn.e arc but 



* psyche, vi, 372 (1893). 



