1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 287 



Spalacopsis filum Duval. 



By some inadvertence this name was converted into linuni in 

 the synopsis of the Lamiinae (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 145), and 

 the error was not observed till after pubhcation. In the same 

 paper, on page 169, a similar error occurs, where Ancylocera 

 brevicornis Casey is said to be the female of Elytroleptiis divisus; 

 it should have been the female of Ancylocera bicolor Oliv. 



A NEW SPECIES OF PHILANTHUS FROM NEW MEXICO. 



By S. N. Dunning, Hartford, Conn. 



Philanthns psyche n. sp. 9- — I-ength: body 9 mm.; of anterior wings 

 5 mm. Black, with white markings, inclined to yellowish on legs. Head 

 subquadrate, slightly broader than high, densely and firmly punctate and 

 covered with a short, sparse pubescence; clypeus, face and extension to 

 emargination of eyes and small spot back of eyes white, except extension 

 of color between the antennae is inclined to lemon-yellow, clypeus 

 rounded, and with four distinct teeth, the central incision longer and less 

 distinct than others; ocelli in a triangle, first as large as last two com- 

 bined; eyes emarginate, elongate oval, dark green; mandibles: first two- 

 thirds white, last third black; scape: antennae white at tip and below, 

 above black, but white predominating; first joint of flagellum black, 

 second black above and reddish brown below, larger at tip, remainder 

 reddish brown, lighter below. Thorax black, with collar; four elongated 

 spots on mesothorax near collar, tegulae, tubercles, slightly curved mark 

 back of same, scutellum, postscutellum, and two short lines on meta- 

 thorax white, covered with short, sparse, whitish hair, closely and finely 

 punctate; a slight cavity between markings on metathorax, also a larger 

 cavity on posterior angle. Abdomen above more coarsely punctate than 

 thorax, faint indications of pubescence, black with a large whitish band 

 on segments 1-5, growing smaller towards tip, band on first segment con- 

 sists of two semi-circles, curving towards tip and joined by a straight line 

 on posterior side; band on second segment curved much as in first, but 

 white is extended, so that mstead of being in semi-circles there are two 

 black spots in midst of white, but near posterior margin of the segment; 

 third band consists of two rounded spots joined by a straight line; fourth 

 and fifth similar, but fainter; last segment bronzed, edged with rufous, 

 more coarsely and sparsely punctate, slightly emarginate; ventrals sparsely 

 and about as coarsely punctate as last segment above, a faint tinge of 

 rufous on posterior edge second segment; anterior coxae black, trochan- 

 ters white tipped inside, rest black, first half of femora black, rest whitish; 

 tibia yellow, with elongated black spot inside; tarsi yellowish, inclined to 

 rufous and armed with a series of long spines, longest in the middle; first 

 joint long as second and third combined; middle coxae white tipped out- 



