ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XX. 



NOVEMBER, 1909. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Rohwer Some new Wasps 369 



Ewing Notes on the American Oriba- 

 tid Fauna, etc 373 



Wherry and Wellman Ticks on the 

 California Ground Squirrel 376 



Rohwer Notes and Descriptions of 

 some Trypoxline Wasps .. 377 



Walton Regarding Mr. Yen-all's Crit- 

 icism of my " Glossary of Chaeto- 

 taxy " 383 



Knab Two new Philippine Culicidae 386 

 Webster Notes on the Eggs of Epa- 



goge sulphureana Clemmens 389 



Swenk Three new Bees of the Genus 



Anthophora . . 390 



Dury Marching Through Georgia.... 392 



Editorial 395 



Notes and News 396 



Doings of Societies 399 



Some new Wasps. 

 BY S. A. ROHWER, Boulder, Colo. 



Lyroda cockerelli n. sp. 



Male. Length 8 mm. Clypeus rounded on the anterior margin ; with- 

 out teeth, slightly notched in the middle. Front finely closely punctured, 

 appearing finely granular; the vertex with larger sparser punctures; 

 no depressed line from the anterior ocellus; the third antennal joint 

 distinctly longer than the fourth ; dorsulum with rather close medium 

 size punctures; scutellum and postscutellum shining impunctate ; meso- 

 pleurae shining, almost impunctate ; metanotum with a distinct longi- 

 tudinal carina for the basal two-thirds; transversely crossed by many 

 irregular striae ; the lower part of the metapleurae impunctate. the up- 

 per part like the metanotum ; the upper part of the posterior face with 

 a distinct diamond-shaped area, bounded by strong ridges and longi- 

 tudinally crossed by a furrow ; the lower part of the posterior face 

 with a strong longitudinal carina ; femora rather robust ; the third cubi- 

 tal cell wider on the radius than the second ; the basal abdominal seg- 

 ments shining, the apical subopaque, closely, finely punctured. Entire- 

 ly black ; the clypeus and face with thick golden pubescence ; the apical 

 margins of the abdominal segments one to three with bright silvery 

 pubescence; the two apical segments with fuscous pubescence. \\'in-^ 

 hyaline, the apical margin strongly dusky; costa and stigma black, the 

 other nervnres pale brown. 



Type Locality : Campus of the University of Colorado, 

 Boulder, July 7, 1908. One female collected by T. D. A. 

 Cockerell. 



A very distinct species not closely related to any de'-crilic 1 



369 



