ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIII. 



JUNE, 1912. 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS: 



Hungerford and Williams Biological 

 Notes on Some Kansas Hymen- 

 optera 241 



Davis A new Variety of Rihana (Ci- 

 cada) sayi Grossbeck (Hemip.) .. 261 



Rehn Two new Species of African 



Eumastacinae lOrth.) 262 



Townsend Vulturopinae, a new Sub- 

 family of the Psocidae ; type Vul- 

 turopsgen. nov. (Platyp.,Corrod.) 266 



Additions, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 269 



Editorial 270 



Needham, et al. Strict Priority in No- 

 menclatureor Not 271 



Collecting in South America 277 



New Postal Regulations Concerning 



Insects 277 



Entomological Literature 273 



Reyiew Walker on Aeshna 28, 



Doings of Societies 285 



Obituary Dr. N. M. Stevens 2gg 



Shigeru Kuwayama 2gg 



Biological Notes on some Kansas Hymenoptera. 



By H. B. HUNGERFORD and FRANCIS X. WILLIAMS, University 



of Kansas. 



(Plates XIV, XV, XVI) 



This paper is based on the collection and field observations 

 made by the authors on the Kansas University Biological Sur- 

 vey to Northwestern Kansas during the summer of 1910. 



During the time that we were in the field (June 16 to Sep- 

 tember 3) a large number of Hymenoptera and other insects 

 were collected, and some interesting 1 notes made on the biology 

 of a few species, particularly on the Fossores (Digger wasps), 

 and the Diplopteryga in the Solitary wasps. 



Some of the observations are very fragmentary, and have 

 been noted heretofore and published ; others we believe are ad- 

 ditions to science. We hope that the results of our observa- 

 tions will encourage students to pay more attention to this fas- 

 cinating branch of entomology. 



The Great Plains as represented in Northwestern Kansas, 

 though meager in some groups of insects, have a good repre- 



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