ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.. 



Vol. XIII. 



JUNE, 1902. 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS 



Titus — Anthidiinae from Colorado 169 



Holland— New Species of Palitidia 172 



Blaisdell— The Three Califoniias 173 



Mengel— Butterflies from So. America 176 

 Melander — Notes on the Acroceridse .. 178 



Hancock— The Genus Phylloiiotus 182 



Skinner— A New Papilio 183 



Brues — Two new Texan Ant and Ter- 

 mite Guests 184 



Editorial 189 



Entomological Literature 190 



Notes and News 191 



Economic Entomology 193 



Doings of Societies 196 



Our plate (VII) represents a species from Bolivia, described 

 by Mr. Weeks in the Proceedings New England Zoological 

 Club, Vol. 2, p. 72, 1901. 



Three New Anthidiinae from Colorado. 



By E. S. G. Titus, Urbana, Illinios. 

 Anthidium pondretiin n. sp. 



(? . — Form and general appearance of atrifrons Say ; black 

 with deep yellow markings ; closely punctured ; pubescence 

 white, very dense on face and pleura, sparse on cheeks and 

 basal segments of abdomen, tufted at sides of other segments ; 

 venter polished, but segments narrowly pubescent at sides ; fe- 

 mora, tibiae, and first joint of tarsi anteriorly, thorax above 

 and occiput with sparse ochraceous pubescence ; ferruginous 

 pubescence on inside of tarsi ; the clypeus (except two black 

 dots at base), anterior orbits of eyes half way up, spot behind 

 summit of eyes, mandibles except ferruginous tips, anterior half 

 of tegulae, line beneath, spot on each side of anterior portion of 

 mesothorax, line and before it a dot on each side of scutellum, 



169 



