50 feNToMoLOGtcAL NEWS. [Feb., '02 



A New Bumble Bee from Colorado. 



By Wm. H. Ashmead. 

 Bombns titnsi n. sp. 



cf . — Length 17 mm. Black and clothed with a black pubescence, the 

 thorax anteriorly with a pale yellowish pubescence, the abdomen above 

 clothed with a dense, dark sulphur yellow pubescence, with a slight 

 greenish tinge, the two terminal segments reddish, mixed with a few 

 black hairs, the fringe on the ventral segments black mixed with pale 

 hairs, the middle and hind femora with whitish or pale yellowish hairs. 



The head, seen from in front, is a little longer than wide, clothed with 

 black hairs intermixed with a few pale hairs and with some moderately 

 coarse, sparse punctures above and below the ocelli ; the malar space 

 smooth, a little longer than wide, less than one-third the length of the 

 eye. The first and second joints of the flagellum are sub-equal, united 

 about as long as the third, the latter being a little shorter than the fourth. 



Type.—Z2X. No. 5784, U. S. N. M. 



Hab. — Lamar, Colorado, September 10, 1898. 



Taken by Prof. E. G. Titus. 



Pests and Grease. 



By F. H. WoLLEY DoD. 

 I trust I may be excused for raking up such an old and 

 somewhat hackneyed subject as the treatment of cabinet pests 

 and grease, but there are, dotibtless, many entomologists who, 

 like myself, are still unable to cope with them to their entire 

 satisfaction. Of all the acknowledged common enemies to a 

 collection of Lepidoptera, grease is the only one which has ever 

 been a serious nuisance to me amongst the boxes. I am not 

 sure that I have ever been troubled at all with mites on verdi- 

 gris nor with mould, except such as has appeared on speci- 

 mens whilst in the relaxing time. The larger insect pests — 

 Dermestidae (?) and Tineidse — have sometimes troubled me a 

 little, chiefly amongst papered specimens. One hairy-looking 

 wriggly creature, which has never told me his name nor even 

 made mention of his family, and which, like most insects in 

 the larval .stage, appears to divide his time between eating and 

 changeing his skin, is an old enemy of mine who has a habit ot 

 boring an almo.st completely round hole through the j^aper, 

 and, visiting papered specimen after specimen, has sometimes 

 continued in his wickedness for weeks without di.scovery. 



