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of segments 2:3:4-8; body .8 x .8 mm.; spring .45 mm.; second and third 

 segments each .16 mm.; largest white spot on body about .18 mm., or 

 nearly one-fifth the body and head. 



Hab. — Orono, Me., July, August and September, 1891, F. L. 

 Harvey. Under bark on stumps and on herbage in the woods. 

 Several specimens examined. One specimen was taken July 7, 

 1 89 1, with Papirus marmoraius Pack, under the loose bark of a 

 fir tree stump. During July, August and September, they were 

 occasionally seen upon grass and other plants in the woods. 

 The accompanying cut was drawn for the writer from live speci- 

 mens by Mr. J. H. Emerton, Boston. It shows the insect mag- 

 nified about thirty times and a little too broad, due to compression 

 necessary to hold it still while drawing. 



This species is apparently related to .S. qitadrimaculata Ryder 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 335), but differs in the 

 larger size, broader body, purplish color and white spots between 

 the eyes. The dark blue-black color of the body, cleared by 

 balsam, appears decidedly purple, while the antennae and legs are 

 pale purple naturally. This form is rather sluggish, but jumps 

 well when disturbed. A beautiful species, not easily detected 

 because of its small size and dark color. 



Description of four new species of Fossorial Hymenoptera 

 from California. 



By William J. Fox, Phila., Pa. 



Sphex (Priononyx) ferrngineas n. sp. 9- — Ferruginous; tips of mandi- 

 bles, ocellar region, antennae, except joints one, two and basal half of 

 third and two longitudinal marks on metanotum black; front, face, clypeus 

 and the thorax densely covered with bright silvery pubescence. Wings 

 hyaline, nervures brownish; clypeus strongly convex, its anterior margin 

 rounded, entire; inner eye margins distinctly converging towards the cly- 

 peus; frontal furrow strong, beginning from a depression before the ante- 

 rior ocellus; scape of antenuce long, but much shorter than first joint of 

 flagellum, this latter a little longer than the two following ones united, 

 these joints in length about equal; prothorax above veryjsroad and con- 

 vex, not impressed; dorsulum with two parallel, raised, smooth, broad 

 ridges, which extend from base almost to apex; scutellum strongly and 

 wrdely furrowed medially, having the appearance of being bituberculate; 

 metanotum obliquely striated, the stride are only seen where the metanotum 

 is black, being covered by the silvery pubescence elsewhere; first recur- 

 rent nervure received by the first submarginal cell a little before the apex, 



