ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICflL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. X. 



JANUARY, 1899. 



No. 1. 



CONTENTS : 



Mine Notes on Celithemis fasoiata 1 



( 'orkerell The bees of Kansas 3 



Wickham Recollections of old col- 

 lecting grounds "> 



Hancock A new species of Noino- 



U'ttix from Kansas s 



Asliniead Four new entomophilous 

 wasps il 



Rowley Notes on Missouri spliin- 



10 

 Editorial ........................ ........ |:; 



Notes and News ................... 11 



Entomological Literature ........... |.~> 



Doing of Societies ..................... _'() 



Exchanges .............................. i 



THYREUS ABBOTII (Swains). 



Our illustration of this curious Sphinx moth was made from 

 a pen and ink sketch drawn many years ago by Titian K. I Vale. 

 The larva- feeds upon species of I'/V/.s- and .1 ///y>r/oy>.s/.s-. The 

 distribution of the species is Canada, eastern United States, 



westward to Iowa. 



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(NOTES ON CELITHEMIS FASCIATA (OdonataX; 

 With a Short Description of the Female, 



IJy .1. S. HIM:, Columbus, Ohio. 



Very little has appeared in literature regard ing ('i'litlir,nix 

 /(iwiiifd. Within the last two years I have seen no less than 

 a do/en specimens of the species, and during the past summer 

 1 had I he pleasure of observing in t he field and collect in.u half 

 that number near Akron, Ohio. To my knowledge the female 

 has never been described, so I -jive below a short description 

 of that sex. 



Mature Female. Head with vertex and dorsil rdi- of IVoiisdark 

 shining brown, with a violet tinge from xnnevieu-: eyes, antennae, 

 mandibles and distal edges of labrum and labium dark : other part> 

 yellow. Thorax yellow with a wide median, a humeral and ->mr 



