ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. I. 



NOVEMBER, 1890. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Fox Aculeate Hymenopteta 137 



Gillette Oviposition of Anomalon 139 



P. P. C. Elementary Entomology 140 



Hamilton Entomology at Longport. 142 

 Beutenmuller Preparatory stages of 

 Datana Contracta 144 



Notes and News 145 



Entomological Literature 147 



Doings of Societies 150 



Three new species of Aculeate Hymenoptera. 



BY WILLIAM J. FOX. 



Sphex Isodontia macrocephalus n. sp. 



9 . Black; head large, subquadrate, covered with long, erect, 

 black hairs, sparsely punctured, more closely so on the face and 

 clypeus; clypeus carinated; labrum and mandibles smooth and 

 shining, the former rounded in front, with a slight pit on each 

 side of the slight carina anteriorly. Thorax finely punctured, 

 covered with long, erect, black hairs; disc with a distinct im- 

 pressed line, extending from base to centre, scutellum not closely 

 punctured; tegulae smooth, impunctured; legs shining, posterior 

 surface of hind tibiae with sericeous pile. Wings blue-black, 

 shining, the marginal cell with the tip obtuse, the third submar- 

 ginal rounded at tip. Petiole finely, but not closely punctured; 

 with long, erect hairs ; the remaining segments of the abdomen 

 smooth, shining, with a few scattered, punctured beneath, and 

 last segment with a few scattered hairs. Length .80 inch. 



One specimen. Collected in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., during 1889. 



