326 Psyche [December 
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF PSAMMOCHARID^E 
By Nathan Banks 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
Cryptocheilus cressoni sp. nov. 
$ Black, antennae mostly yellow, wings yellowish except 
dark base and tip; body only moderately hairy, also coxae, 
femora only slightly above. Third joint of antennae much 
longer than the fourth; lateral ocelli much nearer to each 
other than to eyes; pronotum angulate behind; propodeum 
coarsely transversely ridged, these ridges often weaker in 
the middle area of the posterior face; long spur of hind 
tibiae about one-third of basitarsus ; second ventral segment 
of female with two humps more or less distinct. Third 
cubital cell but little longer than the second, reaching much 
beyond the radial cell. The subgenital plate of the male 
has a median, elevated, punctured, spatulate area not reach- 
ing tip of plate, but with a median projection toward the tip. 
Length 15 to 20 mm. ; forewing 17 mm. 
Specimens come from Fedor, Dallas, and Austin, Texas. 
Others from N. Mex., Arizona, Utah, and California have 
the elevated part of subgenital plate longer. It has been 
considered as C. flammipennis Smith which is a San 
Domingo species. 
Lophopompilus azotus sp. nov. 
$ Black; head, thorax, abdomen and basal joints of legs 
strongly sericeous; the lower part of pronotal lobes almost 
snow-white, and also the lower lateral edges of the dorsal 
plates of abdominal segments one to three. Pilosity and 
structure similar to L. sethiops, but the hair is rather 
shorter and less dense, most noticeable on the head; the 
emargination of clypeus is as deep as in L. sethiops. It may 
prove to be but a variety of that species, but the coloration 
is so different that it deserves a name. 
From Springfield, South Dakota 14 Sept. (H. C. Severin). 
Aporinellus semirufus sp. nov. 
$ Head and thorax black, sericeous, especially on the 
clypeus; abdomen wholly red above and below; legs mostly 
