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lisus, with two new species, H. seminif/cr, from Brazil, and H. Behni, distin- 

 guished by smooth inetanotum ; in tlie Fabrician Collection placed with 

 Crabro fossorius; (Gorytes, Nysson.) Stlzits should remain in its natural 

 place, in the following family : 



BE>LBECIDES. Dahlbom (Hym. Europ.) has formed a distinct genus; 

 SpJied/is, from Sj)7/e.v speciosa, Drury, but in what respect this differs from 

 Stizus is not stated. 



SCOLIET^E. Shuckard (Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud, iii, p. 222) has corrected 

 the description of Scolia fulva, in ' Griff. Auim. Kingd.,' and at the same time 

 remarked that it is not, as there stated, from South America, but from New 

 Holland. 



Fischer v. W. (1. c.) has characterized three Russian Scolietae, of which, 

 in Scolia rujiventris, may be recognized So. rubra, Jur. ; Myzine spinosa is indu- 

 bitably a true Myzine, but the species is not to be determined; Myzine 

 arcuata, lastly, is a male Scolia, and most probably that of Scolia 5-cincta, 

 which is distributed far into Siberia. 



Spinola (1. c.) has described two new species of Myzine, which are very 

 closely connected with M. faemorrAoidalis, Guer., from the Cape ; having in 

 common with it the posterior abdominal segment of a red colour : M. his- 

 panica, from Andalusia., and M. Ghilianii, from Sicily. 



MUTI LIABLE. Spiuola (1. c.) has enriched Mutilla with several South 

 European species, M. 8-maculata, (llii/iioui, fasciaticollis, from Spain ; 

 M. triareolata, from Sicily, and M. Rondani from Parma. But the first, 

 M. -maculata, has been already described by Klug as M. ^-yuttata, Kl., in 

 Waltl's Travels. ^ 



A memoir on the New Holland species of Mutilla has been furnished by 

 Westwood (Arcan. Ent. p. 17, pi. 53, 54), with numerous figures. There 

 are altogether eleven species, of which four are given in Fabricius ; the rest 

 have been established by the author. M. dorsigera, Westw., I consider iden- 

 tical with M. Australasia, F. The Berlin Collection possesses at present 

 eleven New Holland species of this genus, of which only three occur among 

 those noticed by Westwood. 



TiiYNNiD^E. Id. (ib.) has given a figure of Psamatha clialybea, Shuck., 

 and Diamma bicolor, Westw., from Van Diemen's Laud. Both, however, 

 are probably connected as male and female. 



VESPAHI^E. Eumenes venusta, a Wasp has been described by Fischer v. W. 

 (1. c.), as a new species, both sexes of which are figured, but which was pre- 

 viously represented by Christius, as Sjt//e.r tripunctata. 



White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 268) has added to his former memoir on 

 the Honey-wasp (Ann. vii, p. 315), some remarks of Mr. Hawkins, by whom 

 the nest was sent. 



Milne Edwards (Aim. de la Soc. Eut. de Fr. 2 ser. j, p. 34) has dc- 



