ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. X. XOYEMBEE, 1899. Xo. 9 



CONTEXTS : 



Cockerell— New Species of Andrena , Editorial ^W 



frem Kansas 263 \ 



„. ..,. , . _^ ., ,^„ .• ; Notes and News. 265 



Sohwarz— The "Art" of Collecting V 



Catocala 256 Entomological Literature .,.».. .266 



Nature .Studies 258 Doings of> Societies T\T:..271 



The Psoclda of an Old Snake Fence... 260 Exchanges. i, li 



The Digger Wasp 262 



NEW SPLCIE5 OF ANDRENA FROM KANSAS. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell, Xew Mexico Agricultural College. 



Andrena lanHensia, n. sp. — c?. Baldwin, Kansas, April. 

 {J. C. Bridirell.) Two. 



Andrena bridicelU, n. sp. — d. Baldwin, Kansas, April. 

 (Bridirell.) Two. Also one from Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut, April 30, 1893. (S. X. Dunning. ) I formerly 

 thought this a variety of A . cressoni. 



Andrena cragini, n. sp. — cJ'. Baldwin, Kansas, August. 

 (Bridtcell.) One. Xamed after Prof. F. W. Cragin, 

 who published a list of Hymenoptera, which he col- 

 lected in Barber Co., Kansas. 



These species will l)e best identifiefl by means of the follow- 

 ing table : 



Male Andrena of Xorth America, icith the abdomen not ferrugi- 

 nous, and the cli/peusand lateral face- marls yellow or white. 



Abdomen of thetesselate and hardly or not punctured type 1, 



Abdomen distinctly punctured 4. 



] . Verj' small, not over 6 millim. long, face marks 

 whitish per sonata Eob. 



