264 THK CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and Wild Flowers, Lincoln Park, four larvge of PapUio Asierias, nearly 

 full-fed. Found on Ruta Graveolens (English Rue). These larvee 

 pupated as follows : One on Sept. 4, three on Sept. 7. On Sept. 13, '97, 

 I received from the same source eight larvae of /''. Asterias in third, 

 fourth and full-fed stages. One pupated Sept. 16. Two of these were 

 found on Ruta Graveolens, the balance on Fceniciiltiin officinale (com- 

 mon Fennel). Now, I have never seen nor heard of any previous 

 records of P. Asterias being found on anything else than meml>ers of 

 the Umbelliferte, and I consider it a very strange occurrence that they 

 should choose a family so widely separated from the Umbellifera^ as the 

 Rutaceai, of which Ruta Graveolens is the type. 



"If it had been Papilio Cresphontes which I had found u|)on thai 

 plant I should not hive wondered, as its food plants here are Xaiithoxy- 

 lum and Ptelea, two of the Rutace^, but P. Asterias f^' 



I should like to ask here if any one has found Papilio Philcnor 

 feeding on anything but Arisiolochia ? The species of this genus are 

 rare here, but the butterfly is rather common. 



ANOTHER NEW SPECIES OF PROT.ANDREN.\, Ckll. 



BY S. N. DUNNING, HARTFORU, CONN. 



Protandrena Bancro/ti, n. s]). 



^. — Length 9-1 1 mm.; not as stout as Cockerelli, Dun.; a few gray 

 hairs on face and cheeks and on under side of thorax, hair bands on seg. 

 2-3-4, seg. 5-6 covered with hair growing rufciis towards tip, legs and 

 venter with sparse rather longer hairs ; black except a T-shaped mark 

 resting against upper edge of clypeus, spot on teguhe, tubercles, and four 

 anterior knees which are pale yellow. Head subquadrate, broader than 

 high, venter with fairly deep, not close, punctures; ciypeal and sub-ciypeal 

 punctures larger and shallow, mandibles piceous; antennae black at base, 

 growing brownish towards tip, ist jt. flagellum not as long as 2nd and 3rd 

 combined. Mesothorax deeply and closely punctured ; scutellum with 

 large, coarse puncture'% ; post-scutellum not smooth, shining ; metathorax 

 with a smooth, shining spot on upper lateral angles, closely and finely 

 punctured, a narrow suture extending upvvards. Abdomen finely and 

 closely punctured ; venter with large shallow punctures. Wings sub- 

 hyaline, much darkened outwardly (very much more so than in Cockerelli); 

 stigma and nervures ferruginous, a light spot before the stigma. 



Two specimens (D. 1102, July 6, 1897, on Solanum rostratum ; D. 

 1262, July rr, '97, on Medicago sativa, or alfalfa) taken on the Bancroft 

 Farm, near Denver, Colo, Qn^ h^is been deposited with the American 

 Entomological Society, 



