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PREOCCUPIED NAMES IN THE GENUS ANDRENA (HYMENOP- 



TERA). 

 Following: are some new names proposed to replace preoccupied names: 

 Andrena ciliatula n. n. for ciliata Sclienck. Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nas- 

 sau, 21 (375), 1S67, not ciliata Gmelin, Linne : Syst. Nat. Ed. 13a 1 



(2792), 1790. 

 Andrena viridescens n. n. for cyanescens Nylander, Not. Sael. Faun. 



& Fl. Fen. Forh. 2 (259), 1852, not cyanescens Haliday, Trans. 



Linn. Soc. Lond. 17 (321), 1836. 

 Andrena haemorrhoidula n. n. for haltorfiana var. haemorrhoidalis 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Ang. 2 (141), 1802, not /laemorr/ioida/ts Fabricius, 



Syst. Ent. (377), 1775. 

 Andrena interruptula n. n. for interrupta Schenck, Jahrb. Ver. Nat. 



Nass. 21 (300), 1867, not interrupta Panzer, Krit. Rev. 2 (196), 



1806. 

 Andrena nitidella n. n. for nitidula Perez, Pr.-verb. Soc. Bord. 58 



(Ixxxvi), 1903, not nitidula J urine, '^ouv. Meth. Class. Hym. (231), 



1807. 



Andrena accepta n. n. for pulchella Robertson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 18 (57), 1891, not pulchella Jurine, Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym. (231), 

 1807. 



Andrena quadricinctula n. n. for quadricincta Brulle, Exp. Sc. Mor. 



Zool. 2 (354), 1832, not quadricincta Olivier, Encycl. Method. Ins. 

 4 (138), 1789. 

 Andrena succinctula n. n. for succincta ImhoflF, Isis (1205), 1832, not 

 succincta Fabricius, Spec. Insect. 1 (474), 1781. 



Andrena morawitzella n. n. for virescens Morawitz, Fedt. Turk. Mell. 

 2 (209), 1876, not virescens Fabricius, Spec. Ins. 1 (,474), 1781. 



— Henry L. Viereck. 



THE STATUS OF SIGMODONTOMYS ALFARI ALLEN AND 



ORYZOMYS OCHRACEUS ALLEN. 

 In revising species of the murine genus Oryzomys I find it necessary to 

 transfer Oryzomys ochraceus Allen to the genus Nectomys, and it proves 

 to be not only congeneric but specifically identical with Sigmodontomys 

 alfari Allen. 

 The species and synonymy will therefore stand as follows : 



Nectomys alfari (Allen). 

 Sigmodontomys alfari Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 39, 



March 11, 1897. (Jimenez, Costa Rica.) 

 Oryzomys ochraceus Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIV, p. 655, 



October 13, 1908. (Rio Grande, Nicaragua.) — E. A. Goldman. 



NOTE ON THE NAME CORYNORHINUS MEGALOTIS. 



In Dr. Glover M. Allen's recent paper on the genus Corynorhinus 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, LX, p. 333) the name Corynorhinus 

 megalotis is adopted for one of the species, based on Rafinesque's Vesper - 

 tilio megalotis of 1818. But the latter name is antedated and invalidated 

 by Bechstein's Vespertilio megalotis,* dating from 1800, and the American 

 bat should therefore apparently stand as Corynorhinus rafinesquii 

 (Lesson), 1827. —Oldfield Thomas. 



* Pennant's Uebers. Vierf. Thiere, II, p. 622. 



