144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS fxxxii, '21 



New Distribution Records for North American 

 Bremidae, with the Description of 



a New Species (Hym.). 

 By THEODORE H. PRISON, Urbana, Illinois. 



In the course of examining a large number of specimens of 

 Bremus (Bombits) and Psithyrus from various parts of North 

 America, the writer has obtained many new records of distri- 

 bution for members of these two genera. Dr. Franklin in his 

 monograph on "The Bombidae of the New World" gives a 

 table in which he tabulates the species as they occur in the 

 various political divisions. He says "Gaps in the known habitat 

 have, in this list, been filled in, as far as they reasonably could 

 be, according to the author's judgment of the unknown habitat 

 based on the known." Additions to this original list were pub- 

 lished by Franklin in the November number, of the Entomo- 

 logical News for 1915, and Lutz (1916) and Sladen (1916, 

 1919) have added several more records. 



Besides those species given below that are not listed by 

 Franklin from certain political divisions or states, there are 

 others accredited to certain states by Franklin on the basis of 

 their known range, which are here actually recorded from 

 those states. 



1. Bremus occidentalis Greene. Nogales, Arizona, seven queens, 

 July 1-12, 1917 (E. J. Oslar Author's Collection). 



2. Bremus occidentalis subsp. nigroscutatus Franklin. Nogales, 

 Arizona, one queen, July 7, 1917 (E. J. Oslar Author's Collection). 



3. Bremus terricola Kirby. Ames, Iowa, one female, June 12, 

 1S8S (Gillette Ames Agr. College Collection, Ames, Iowa); Al- 

 gonquin, Illinois, one worker, July 21, 1914 (Nason Illinois State 

 Natural History Survey Collection); Northern Illinois, two work- 

 ers (Bolter Collection University of Illinois Museum); Mt. Mit- 

 chell, North Carolina, three queens and five workers, July 18, 1919, 

 about 6700 ft. alt. (R. W. Leiby North- Carolina State Ent. and 

 Author's Collections), and Yonahlossee Road, near Blowing Rock, 

 North Carolina, one male, mid-Sept., 1912 (C. L. Metcalf North 

 Carolina State Ent. Collection); Kempt Shore, Nova Scotia, six 

 workers, August 14, 1914 (E. Mosher Author's Collection); Digby, 

 Nova Scotia, many workers, June 2-20, 1908, and many males, Junr 

 23-July 15, 1908 (Russell Nason Collection, University of Illinois 

 Museum); Alpena, Michigan, eight males, Sept. 25, 1908 (Nason 



