16^) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A7idretia 7netaiiesce?is, n. n. — Aiidiena jnetalUca^ Radosz. Horae Soc. 

 Ent. Ross., 1876, p. 83. (Not of Fabricius, 1793.) 



Andrena succincta, Imhof, 1832. — This name is a homonym, because 

 o{ A. succincta, Fabr., 1781, Petagna, 1786 {-= Dasypodd), but the species 

 is quite uncertain, and being now nameless, may be consigned to oblivion. 



Apis dorsata Binghami, n. n. — Apis zonata, Smith. Jn. Linn. Soc. 

 Ill, 1859, p. 8. (Not of Gravenhorst, 1807.) 



Apis inellifera Lamn^-ckii^ n. n. — Apis fasciata, Latreille. An. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat., 1804, p. 171. (Not of Linne, 1767.) 



Crocisa Frieseana^ n. n. — Crocisa atra^ Friese. Z. f. Hym. u. Dipt., 

 1905, p. 7. (Sunda Archipelago.) (Not of Jurine, 1807.) 



The following are ^Iso homonyms, and must be given new names : 



Megachile pridfiosa, Friese, 1903. Texas. (Not of Perez, 1897.) 

 Friese (in litt.) holds iha.i pruinosa, Perez, is argentata. 



Sphecodes gracilior, Perez, 1903. Algeria. (Not of Morawitz, 1894.) 



Noj}iada siiperba.Vertz, 1903. France. (Not of Cresson.) Prof. 

 Perez writes that his superba is a remarkable variety of N. c/wysopyga, 

 Morawitz ; it may stand as JV. chrysopyga Pereziana. 



CoUetes brevicornis^ Perez, 1903. (Not of Robertson, 1897.) 



Halidtis testaceus. Nurse, 1902. India. (Not of Robertson, 1897.) 

 Nurse has proposed the name H. orpheus for his species. 



Halictus nigricornis, (Fabr.) Say, 1837, ^'^^^ not invalidate H. nigri- 

 coniis, Morawitz, 1886 (from Tibet), because the Fabrician insect was 

 originally described under Andre?ia, and is an Agapostemo?i. It is a 

 generally accepted (I believe) and very excellent restriction of the rule 

 regarding homonyms, that secondary references (/. ^., subsequent to the 

 original description) do not count, unless the species referred is still con- 

 sidered to belong to the genus to which it was transferred.* 



Eulcevia, Lep. — Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins., Vol. 2, 1841, spells this 

 name FMlce7nn, giving Eidema as the vernacular (French) rendering. 

 Curiously, all authors have used the latter spelling instead of the former. 

 Scudder (Nomenclator Zoologicus) has the correct si)elling.' 



Epeo/us i?tterriiptusy Rob. — Boulder, Colo. At flowers of Towns- 

 efidia graiidiflora, July 5, 1905. 3 9 *s. (VV. P. Cockerell.) Previously 

 known only from Illinois. 



*Incidentally, it is to be noted that some of the names of our Noctuid moths 

 are homonyms. Thus Lycophotia congrua is based on Agrotis congtuo. Smith, 

 1890, not of Walker, 1865. Triphcs?ia confusa is based on Agrotis confusa, Smith, 

 1887, not of Alpheraky, 1882, 



