44 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxx. 



4. Tibicen linnei (Smith & Grossbeck). 



Figured in Journal, N. Y. Entomological Society, September- 

 December, 1918, PI. 7, fig. I. 



A species of wide distribution and quite common in Virginia. The 

 following specimens have been examined : Mt. Vernon, September 5, 

 1920, female, in collection of A. N. Caudell ; Alexandria County, Au- 

 gust 29, 1910, male (Ernest Shoemaker) ; Spring Hill, Fairfax County, 

 September 21, 1911, female (Davis); Black Pond, Fairfax County, 

 September 7, 1914, male (W. D. Appel) ; Difficult Run, Fairfax 

 County. August 31, 1916, male (E. A. Preble), U. S. Biological Sur- 

 vey ; Falls Church, September 6, male, collection Nathan Banks ; Win- 

 chester, Frederick County, August, 1921, W. S. Hough collection; Hot 

 Springs, female (Col. Wirt Robinson) ; Hot Springs, August 14, 1916, 

 male, flew to light at I0.30 P.M. (Morgan Hebard) ; Charlottesville, 

 September 3, 1915, male (Dr. Henry Fox). Dr. Fox also collected 

 the following series at Tappahannock in 1915: September 11, male; 

 September 14, four males, two females; September 25, male; October 2, 

 two females; October 4, female; October 6, female. In August, 1916, 

 he collected at the same locality nine males and two females. Lynch- 

 burg, August 2, 1921, male, taken by the writer from the cicada-killer 

 (Sphecins) as it was being brought to its nest. These large hornets 

 had numerous burrows opposite the station of the Chesapeake and Ohio 

 Railroad and close to the tracks. At that date also many male 

 Sphecius were stationed near the burrows on various objects and gave 

 chase to the females when they appeared. One of the males had his 

 lookout on a piece of old leather lying on the ground, to which he 

 always returned; one on a piece of brown paper, and still another on 

 a large dead leaf. Others perched on bushes and other near-by plants. 



From Wingina, Nelson County, we have, August 7, 1914, male, 

 August 6, 1917, female, August 12, 1919, male, and August 19, 1919, 

 male, all collected by Col. Robinson. In August, 1921, we heard many 

 singing in the woods about Wingina; also at Johnson's Cove, north- 

 west of Elmington, in the first line of the Blue Ridge Mountains on 

 August 8. Across, the James River in Buckingham County we heard 

 a number at Spear's Mountain on August 5 and 6, and on the latter 

 date found a dead male and female on a wood road near the James 

 River. On August 9 we heard a number at Willis's Mountain, about 



