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Philadelphia, Pa., October, 1897. 



late collecting. 

 By the time this month's issue reaches our subscribers many 

 of them will have ceased their efforts, entomologically, for the 

 season; net and cyanide jar will be put away for future use and 

 collections labeled and put in order in the cabinet. We, how- 

 ever, wish to mention the fact that many fine species fly late in 

 the Fall and we have records of good species taken in this locality 

 (Phila. , Pa.) in September and October. Papilio cresphonies, 

 Eup. claudia, Jun. coenia, Endatn. proteiis, Pam. ocola and accius, 

 Callid. eubule as well as other common species have been taken 

 late in the season. Good things are also found in the orders 

 other than Lepidoptera at this time of year, so it will pay those 

 who have the time, to take an occasional collecting trip, to do so 

 and also enjoy the glorious Autumn weather we often have. 



A NEW GENUS OF BEES. Ashmeadiella, n. g. — Similar to Heriades. 

 First recurrent nervure reaching second submarginal cell at a point dis- 

 tant from the origin of the first transverso-cubital more than half the 

 length of the latter. Stigma small or subobsolete. Winss not smoky at 

 apex; eyes bicolored, black and green; end of male abdomen with four 

 teeth. Type A. opuntics {Heriades opimtice Ckll., An. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1897, p. 139). Includes also A. prosopidis, A. meliloti, A. cactorum and 

 A. bigelovi^, all described as Heriades. Mr. Ashmead's Chalicodoma 

 californica (which maybe Provancher's Heriades albicinctmti) is probably 

 congeneric; so also are some of Cresson's Heriades, such as H. denticu- 

 latutn, H. variolosuni and H. osmoides [duccouis Say). — T. D. A. CocK- 

 ERELL, Mesilla, New Mex. 



