ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. JANUARY, 1899. No. 1. 



CONTENTS : 



Hlne — Notes on t'elithemls fasciata 1 j Rowley— Notes on Missouri Sptain- 



<"ockereIl— The bees of Kansas 3| gida? 10 



Wlokhani— Recollections of old edl- I Editorial 13 



lecting grounds.... o | Notes and News ... 14 



Hancock— .\ new species of Nomo- | Entomological Literature 15 



tett_ix from Kansas Sj Doing of Societies 30 



.Vshmead— Four new entomophllouH i Exchanges i 



wasps 9; 



THYREUS ABBOTII (Swains). 

 Our illiistratiou of this ourious Sphinx moth was made from 

 a pen and ink sketch drawn many years ago by Titian E. Peale. 

 The larva* fee<ls upon species of Viti^ aiid Ampelojysi^, The 

 distribution of the ^ecies is Canada." eastern United States, 

 wejitward to Iowa.- 



NOTES ON CELITHEMIS FASCIATA (Odonafe), 

 With a Short Description of the Female. 



By J. S. HiNE, Columbus, Ohio. 



Very little has appeared in literature regarding Celithemis 

 fasciata. Within the last two years I have seen no less than 

 a dozen specimens of the species, and during the past summer 

 I had the pleasure of observing in the field and collecting half 

 that number near Akron, Ohio. To my knowledge the female 

 has never l)een described, so I give below a short description 

 of that sex. 



Mature Female. — Head with vertex and dorsal edge of frousdark 

 shiuing brown, with a violet tinge from some views; eyes, antennae, 

 mandibles and distal edges of labrum and labium dark ; other parts 

 vellow. Thorax vellow with a wide median, a huraei-al and some 



