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August iE98.1
PSYCHE.
TI-IYNNIDAE IN THE UNITED STATES,
BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, WASHINGTON, D. C. IN Ent. News, Vol. Ill, p. 104 (1892), the following brief notice by Mr. Win. H, Patton occurs : " Thynnns in California. This
genus has not hitherto been found north of the equator in either hemisphere, nor has any of the family Thynnidae. A single
specimen received from Dr. F. E, Blaisdell, from Poway, San Diego County, Cal., is the first intimation of its occurrence in North America. It is a small black species with hyaline wings and may be named Thynnus
cahfort~tcu.~"
The author has not since published a
description of this interesting insect and the above laconic description is too insufficient for me to tell whether 01- not it is at all related to the two Thynnids, described below, also from California.
Telef horomjGa anthracha n. sp, - if;.
Length 13-14 mm. Black, shining but
pnctate, and clothed with black hairs, the hairs greyish on scape, the clypeus anteriorly and the anterior femora beneath.
Clypeus,
a small triangular spot above between the antennae, and the inner orbits to above the middle of eyes yellow or yellowish white. Wings violaceous black, paler or hyaline at basal one-third. Mandibles tridentate, the outer tooth the longest, acute. Mesonotum with four more or less distinct longitudinal grooved lines. Claws with a tooth at the middle.
Hub. - Loe Angeles, California.
Type-xo. $053, U. S. N. M.
Described from two specimens collected
by Mr. D. W. Coquillett.
The genus Telephoroniyia is peculiar to
South America.
Body smooth, polished, unpunctate,
clothed with very sparse, long yellowish- white hairs.
Head viewed from above quad-
rate, a little wider than long, with a long curved sulcus on each temple above the eye, the sulc~w fringed with long hairs.
Ocelli
wanting. Mandibles bidentate. Eyes not
large, oval, placed at the anterior angles of the head and almost touching the base of the mandibles. , Maxillary palpi 6-, labial palpi +-jointed. Antennae 12-jointed, short; the scape dilated, with a tuft of bristle6 above, and as long as the pedicel and the first two joints of flagellum united; the flagellum is about as long as the head is wide; pedicel shorter than the first flagellar joint, the letter being shorter and slenderer than the following joints; the last joint the longest, as long as the pedicel and the first joint of flagellum united. Thorax about 2& times as long as wide, divided into three parts, the pronoturn quadrate, the anterior angles a little rounded, and as long as the metathorax; mesonotnin transverse, entire, about half as long as the metathorax, the scutellum not differentiated; metathorax viewed from above trapezoidal, the posterior face and sides perpendicularly truncate. Legs fossorial, the middle and hind legs -
armed with short spines on anterior face, with longer spines at apex; tibia1 spurs I, 2, 2 ; tarsi long, each pair gradually increasing in length, the hind pair being the longest, the joints armed with spines; claws simple. Abdomen subsessile, long, subcylindrica.1, much longer than the head and thorax
united, six segmented, the second segment the longest, wholly smooth and polished, and clothed with long, sparse hairs.
Glyftometofa ame~icaua n. so. - 2.
Length 4.5 mni. Uniformly ferruginous,
sparsely clothed with rather long, glittering white hairs; eyes black; middle and hind tibiae armed with numerous short, stiff
spines, those on hind tibiae less distinct and sparser, the anterior tibiae smooth.
Hab. -Mamedo County, Gal.
Type -No. 5052, U. S. N. M.
Described from i single specimen taken in September, by Albert Koebele.




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