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Psyche 9:185-186, 1900.

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April, 1qm1] PSYCHE. 185
We have thus in this species a unique
and possibly even not worse, than sev-
example of an European butterfly, which
eral celebrated tropical species.
mimics the dead leaf as perfectly,
SOME INSECTS OF THE HUDSONIAN ZONE IN NEW MEXICO.-IV. HYMENOPTERA,
(Part)
BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD.
(I) Stm01-rabro cinctiiarsis, new spe-
cies.
f. -Length 6.5; mm. Black, shining :
the tibia1 spurs, the extreme apex of the first joint of the anterior tarsi and joints a and 3 entirely, and joints I to 3 of middle tarsi, yellowish-white. The clypens at apex inedi- ally is subprodnced and clothed with a dense silvery pubescence ; the mandibles and the mesopectus with sparse silvery hairs. The head is quadrate, smooth above, but anteri- orly it is sparsely, minutely punctate and with a median grooved line; the eyes are large and converge anteriorly ; the ocelli are arranged in a triangle, the space between the margin of the eye and the lateral ocelli being greater than the space between them. Man- dibles black, bidentate. The proiiot~tm is not short and has a deep transverse impres- sion above, the hind margin having a deli- cate median notch which conforms to a deli- cate median grooved line on the anterior half of the mesonotum ; both of these scler- ites are smooth and shining, although with a high power lens one can detect. sparse, micro- scopic punctures scattered over the surface. The metathorax above is smooth, polished, with a broad median groove and an oblong area on each side of the groove; the poste- rior face of the metatl~orax is transversely regulose, the pleura striate. The wings are hyaline, with a faint f uscous tinge, the stigma and veins being brown, the stigma and costal vein dark brown; the recurrent nervnre
unites with the cubital cell just beyond its middle. The abdomen is :i little longer than the head and thorax united, subclavate,
smooth and shining, but with a high power lens, exhibits, particularly on the second nnd third dorsal segments and the base of the third, very fine, delicate, transverse acicii- lations.
Type.- Cat. No. 5349, U. S. N. M.
Habitat.- Top of range between the
Sapello and Pecos Rivers at an altitude
of about 11000 feet,
One f specimen.
Family Pompiliciae.
(2) Ceropaksfraterna Smith.
Prof. Cockerel1 has taken one 9
specimen.
It is a species widely spread
over Canada and the United States,
(3) A ~~cisfrocerus stx~//ig~c/a/us, new species.
a- Length 8 mm. Black n ith the head
and thorax rather coarsely punctate ; a broad apical band on dorsal nhdominal segments I to 6, n band at apex of ventral segments 2 and 3 and 2 spot at hind angles ot 4 and 5, the mandibles except at apex, the clypens entirely, a short orbital line opposite the antennae, a spot between the antennae, a dot on temples back of the eyes, the scape beneath and tmo or three ot the following antenna1 joints



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186 P.~'YC'A%T. [April,
beneath, a transverse band on the anterior margin of the pronotuin, two spots on the tcgulae, two dots on the scutellum and the legs from the apices of the femora, lemon-yellow; flagellum beneath and including the hook and the penultimate joint fulvous.
Type.-Cat. No. 5350, U. S. N. M.
Habitat.- New Mexico.
Described from t f specimen.
The
species comes evidently nearest to A.
bristamenti Saussure, described from
Mexico and known only in the female
sex.
Family Formicidae.
(4) Formica neoru^ibarbis Emery.
Two 2 specimens. (Determined by
Mr. Theo. Pergande.)
Family Xenihredinida~i
(5) Tenthredo eryt/tromeraProvancher.
One 9 specimen. Occurs in British
Columbia and Alaska.
(6) Latidia or&/haZis Norton.
One ? specimen. Recorded from
Colorado, British Colun~bia, Vancouver
Island.
LEPIDOPTEKA RHOPALOCERA.
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
Pyrameis cardui L.
Vanessa milbertii subsp. subpaZZia'a
Ckll.
Argynnis eurynome Edw. Very
abundant.
Argynnis electa Edw., det. Skin-
ner. Only one taken; it is common
in the same region at lower altitudes,
where eurynome is not found.
Brenthis helena Edw, det. Skin-
ner Abundant. Dr. Skinner would
not separate Brenthis from Aqynnis,
but they seem to me sufficiently distinct. Erebia epipsodea Butler.
Coenonympha ochracea Edw.
Common ; forms with only one pupilled
ocellus on under side of secondaries.
Chrysophanus helloides Bdv.
Common.
Lycaena rustica Edw. Common ;
one is smaller than usual, with the
ground-color of under side of second-
aries quite dark, thus approaching L.
aqztizo.
Colias eurytheme Bdv.
Colias scudderi Reak. var.ftavofin-
cta n. var ; 9 delicate pale yellow, f
normal. The is figured (fig. 5) on
Edwards' plate in Butt. N. A. Several
seen ; my wife took a pair.
Parnassius smintheus Dbl. & Hew.
One <y taken by my wife ; expanse 63
mm. This is certainly smintheus, con-
sidering the locality, but it is unusually dark, and marked almost exactly as P.
clodizts var. baldur, figured (pi. 39, fig. 7) in Holland's Butterfly Book.
Pamphila comma nevada Scudd.
det. Skinner. Common, both sexes
taken.
Pyrgus centaureae Ramb., det.
Skinner. f.




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