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Psyche 
[September-December 
Anoplius (Arachnophroctonus) cteniphagus new species 
Holotype. — 9, Mexico: Veracruz: Fortin de las Flores, 
3350' elevation, 20 Aug. 1967 (R. E. Leech) (Wasp dragging stunned 
ctenid spider, Ciupinnius foliatus P. — C. 9) [Canad. Nat. Coll., 
Ottawa]. 
Description of female type. — Length 20 mm; fore wing 18 
mm. Black, pubescence wholly dark and with strong bluish re- 
flections; wings dark brown, with bluish reflections. Head clothed 
with long, dark hair, including clypeus and scape; thorax also 
with dense, rather long, dark hair on dorsum and pleura, pro- 
podeum especially densely hairy; coxae strongly hairy, femora 
with somewhat shorter and sparser hairs; first tergite densely 
hairy anteriorly, tergites 2-3 with some short hair, 4-5 more 
densely hairy, 6 with dense, stout bristles; all sternites moderately 
hairy. Clypeus 2.5 X as wide as its median height, with a large, 
arcuate median emargination. Middle interocular distance 0.55 
X head width; inner eye margins strongly convergent above, 
upper interocular distance only 0.72 X lower interocular distance. 
Ocelli in a very compact triangle, ocello-ocular line 1.5 X posto- 
cellar line. Antennae extremely long and slender, third segment 
1.5 X as long as upper interocular distance. Pronotum short, 
very broadly angulate behind; postnotum a narrow transverse 
band; propodeum sloping evenly in profile, median line not im- 
pressed. Front basitarsus with 3 pecten spines, the spines about 
twice as long as width of tarsus. Marginal cell removed from 
wing tip by much less than its own length; second submarginal 
cell rhomboidal, 1.8 X as wide as high; third submarginal cell 
slightly wider and higher than second, narrowed by about half 
above. 
Remarks. — Known only from the type. Dr. Leech sent me 
this specimen several years ago, and I have held it hoping ad- 
ditional specimens would come to light. None have, but I felt 
the species worth describing because of the unusual prey record. 
The dense hair and emarginate clypeus suggest Lophopompilus, 
but because of the angulate pronotum I think it more likely 
that the species belongs in Arachophroctonus. Its closest relative 
may be echinatus Fox, known from northern South America 
north to Costa Rica. However, echinatus is a somewhat smaller 
