ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XV. 



OCTOBER, 1904. 



No. 8. 



CONTENTS 



Scheffer — New Spiders from Kansas... 257 

 Viereck — The American Genera of the 



Bee Family Dufoureidae 261 



Rehn — Notes on the Orthoptera of the 



Keweenaw Region, Michigan 263 



Brimley and Sherman — List of the Ta- 



banidae (Horse-flies) of N. Carolina 270 

 Cockerell — Bees of Genus Colletes .... 276 

 Williamson — Additional Dragonfly 



(Odonata) Records for W. Penna... 277 

 Scheffer — The Egg Cocoon of Triangle 



Spider 278 



Rehu — Two New Species of North 



American Stenopelmatinae (Orth.). 280 



Editorial 283 



Notts and News 284 



Entomological Literature 285 



Doings of Societies 285 



Four New Spiders from Kansas. 



By Theo. H, Scheffer, A. M. 



(Plate XVI L) 



The four new species of spiders herein considered were first 

 described in "A Preliminary List of Kansas Spiders," pub- 

 lished by a local journal of the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, April 2, 1904. It has seemed desirable to give the 

 descriptions more general publication, especially since a few 

 errors crept into the original article. Types of the species 

 form part of the collection of the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, and duplicates have been sent to the National Mu- 

 seum at Washington. 



Family THOMISID.^. 

 Zysticns modestns sp. nov. (Fig. i.) 



This is a modest little crab spider, smaller than any of the 

 species ordinarily considered as common. 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm. ; width of cephalothorax 2 mm. ; width of 

 abdomen 3 mm. First and second pairs of legs stout, the tibiae and 

 metatarsi armed with two rows of spines set along the anterior margin. 

 The corresponding joints in the legs of the third and fourth pairs show a 

 few weak spines on the under surface. 



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