ENTOMOLOGICflL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. X. 



NOVEMBEE, 1899. 



No. <. 



CONTENTS : 



( <ii-Uerell Now Species of Andrena 

 frein Kansas '-~k! 



S.>h\varz The "Art" of Collecting 

 Catocala 256 



Nature Studies 258 



The Psocids of an Old Snake Fence. . . % JiiO 

 The Digger Wasp 262 



Editorial 264 



Notes and News 265 



Entomological Literature 21 Hi 



Doings of Societies 271 



Exchanges i, ii 



NLW SPLCIES OF ANDRLNA FROM KANSAS. 



BY T. P. A. COCKKRELL, New Mexico Agricultural College. 



Audi-am /,YO/.V'//.S-;.V, u. sp.- ?. Baldwin, Kansas, April. 

 (J. C. Bri<ltc<'ll.) Two. 



ln-i<l iri'lli, u. sp. cf. Baldwin, Kansas, April. 

 irr/l.) Two. Also one from Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut, April 30, 1893. (8. X. Dutniiny.) I formerly 

 thought this a variety of A. crexwmi. 



i-i-iii/iiii. n. sp.- ?. Baldwin, Kansas, August. 

 One. Named after Prof. F. W. Cragin, 

 who published a list of Hymeiioptera, which he col- 

 led<-<l in Barber Co., Kansas. 



These species will be best identified by means of the follow- 

 ing table : 



Mule Ainli-i'iio of Xorth Atnrricti, icitli tin' nhilonii'ii not frn-ttf/i- 

 IIOIIN, inn! /In- <-li/jn'itN and lateral face-marks yellow or whih . 

 Abdomen of thetesselate and hardly or not punctured type 1. 



Abdomen distinctly punctured 4. 



J. Very small, not over 6 niillirn. long, face marks 

 whitish per sonata Eob. 



