March, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 107 



Lithocolletis arcuella sp. nov. 



Antennas whitish, annulate with brown above, tips blackish. Palpi 

 silvery white. Face silvery white, slightly tinged with golden. Tuft yel- 

 low, mixed with orange at the sides. Thorax and forewings shining 

 reddish orange, w r ith glistening white markings. There are three costal 

 and three dorsal white spots, the second pair uniting to form a fascia; 

 all black-margined externally. The first costal spot at the basal third 

 is short and broad, its dark margin, passing around its apex, almost en- 

 closes it. The first dorsal, almost square, begins nearer the base than 

 the first costal, and extends half way across the wing. A broad white 

 angulated fascia at about the middle, black-margined externally and on 

 the costa internally. Third costal streak strongly arcuate and opposite 

 the more triangular dorsal streak; the external dusting densest im- 

 mediately behind their apices. Apical portion densely dusted with 

 blackish-brown scales, and bordered internally by an indistinct out- 

 wardly concave streak of silvery scales. Marginal line in cilia brownish. 

 Cilia golden, becoming grayish towards the tornus. Alar expanse 10 mm. 

 Hindwings bronzy gray, cilia gray. Abdomen bronzy gray above, silvery 

 beneath. Anal tuft reddish. Legs, except the first pair, ocherous, tarsi 

 whitish and unspotted. First pair striped with dark gray, tarsi banded 

 with gray. 



One specimen taken at Mountain Lake, Giles Co., Va., June 

 20, 1907. A very large and distinctly marked species, belong- 

 ing to the same group as L. bethiinclla, Cham. 



Male Polistes annularis Survive the Winter. 



BY C. S. BRIMLEY, Raleigh, N. C. 



Finding among my pinned wasps some male Polistes taken 

 in December and January, I kept notes of all the Polistes 

 taken while hibernating during the winter of 1906-7, with the 

 following results : 



November 29, 1906. Fifty-four Polistes taken, of which 

 twenty were male annularis and thirty-one females of the 

 same species ; three were females of other species. 



December 4, 1906. Fifty-seven taken, of which one was a 

 male annularis and the rest females of other species. 



February 8, 1907. One hundred and thirteen taken, of 

 which fifty were males and fifty-six females of annularis and 

 seven females of other species. 



March 22, 1907. Three males and two females of annularis 

 taken on the wing. On March 26th two more male annularis 

 taken, also on the wing. 



