42O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., 'l/ 



Family MUTILLIDAE. 

 Dasymutilla bioculata (Cress.)- Bismarck; one male, July 8, on 



flowers of Sium cicutae folium. 

 Dasymutilla canella (Blake). Minot; one male, Aug. 22. 



Family SCOLIIDAE. 



Tiphia sp. (inornatus Say ?). Bismarck; four, July 8, on flowers 

 of Sium cicutaefolium. 



Family SAPYGIDAE. 



Eusapyga sp. Williston; Aug. 14; two at clay bank where bees were 

 nesting (Anthophora and Osmia). 



Family VESPIDAE. 



Vespa arenaria Fab. (V '. consobrina Sauss.). Fargo; one worker, 

 Sept. 4. 1915. 



Vespa diabolica Sauss. Fargo; several, at flowers of Aster panicu- 

 latus, Clematis virginiana, Melilotus alba, Salix sp., Snlidago 

 canadcnsis, S. rigida. Also from Lake Park, Minnesota, (C. H. 

 Waldron) on Impatiens biflora and Scrophularia Icporclla. This 

 is the most common hornet in this locality. I have seen a nest 

 in a tree and several under the eaves of houses in the city. One 

 of the latter removed after dark, Aug. 25, contained over 600 

 adults and must have had two or three times as many larvae 

 and pupae. 



Vespa maculata Linn. Fargo: four males, one on Aster panicula- 

 tus. Also from Lake Park, Minnesota (C. H. Waldron), on 

 Eupatorium perfoliatum and Impatiens biflora. 



Vespa vulgaris Linn. Fargo; 3 queens, one male, one on Salix sp. 

 Also from Lake Park, Minnesota, (C. H. Waldron) on Impatiens 

 biflora. 

 T have also a worker of V . ridua Sauss. from Lake Park, Minnesota, 



(C. H. Waldron) on Impatiens biflora. This locality while only 40 



miles from Fargo is at the edge of the lake and forest region, and 



may be the western limit of many insects as it is of plants. 



Polistes sn. Fargo (in one of the college buildings), Medora, Sen- 

 tinel Butte, Mott (J. R. Campbell); on Aster sp., SoUdao ri./ida 

 and Vagnera stcllata. On Aug. 30, 1914, I found queens fairly 

 common at Medora ; otherwise these wasps have seemed very rare 

 here and I have not seen a nest. 



Family PSAMMOCHARIDAE. 



Cerooales fraternus F. Sm. Fargo, Bismarck. Schafer: July 8 to 



Sept. 6, on Mclilohis alba, Sium cicutaefolium and Solidago 



canadcnsis. 

 Cryptocheilus terminalis Say. Williston, one, Aug. 14, Mcdicago 



satii'a (not tripping the flowers). 

 Psammochares srctus (Cress.). Fargo; one. Tune 15. on. Zizia 



aurca (C. H. Waldron). 

 Psammochares illinoensis (Rob.). Fargo: one, September 10, on 



Aster paniculatus. 



Family SPHECIDAE. 

 Chlorion (Palmodes) laeviventris (Cress.). Williston; one female, 



Aug. 15, on McWntits officinalis. 

 Chlorion (Priononvx) atratum (T.ep.). Steele: one male, July l t. 



on Carduus iindulatus; Mott (J. R. Campbell): one female, Aug. 



20, on Solidago rigida. 



