106 NOTICE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. 



que lutescentibus : abdomen piceum basi sordidius lutescens, 

 petiolo minus dilatato. 

 Habitat in pratis Ranunculo acri obsitis rarissime. — (Mus. Soc. 

 Ent.) 



Restant adbuc quatuor species olim descriptae, 



A. Aparines .... Ichn. Aphidiphagus. Schr. F. B. II. 2147. 



A. Dipsaci Schr. F. B. II. 2149. 



A. infirmus Ess. B. M. V. 28. Sp. 43. 



A. melanocephalus . Ess. B. M. V. 29. Sp. 45. 



mihi incognitas, de quarum loco propterea nil temere proferre placet. 



Note. — As the variations of the palpi in this genus are not 

 always indicated by any evident distinction in other external 

 characters, I have sought, where an opportunity offered, to 

 obtain a view of them in recent specimens ; but in many cases 

 have been obliged to content myself with relaxing the parts. 

 As, however, such minute characters may be easily mistaken 

 on a superficial view, I wish to enumerate the species whose 

 trophi were submitted to actual dissection : — Nos. 3, 5, 7, 8, 

 9, 10, 11, 17, 21, 22, 24, 21, 2d, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 

 43, and 44. A. H. Haliday. 



3, Netv Cumberland- street, Dublin. 

 Nov. 22, 1833. 



Art. VIII. — Notice of Entomological Works. 



1 . British Entomology ; by John Curtis, F. L. S. fyc. — 

 Nos. 117 — 120. — PI. 466. Elophorus fennicus (Coleoptera 

 Helophoridse) ; 467. Aspilates gilvaria, (Lepidoptera Phalae- 

 nidae) ; 468. Psithyrus rupestris, (Hymenoptera Apidae). 

 Psithyrus of Dahlbom and Curtis falls, because Psithyrus is 

 a name applied by Hiibner to a genus of Sphingidce. This 

 genus of bees is of very singular economy ; like the cuckoo, 

 it lays its eggs in a nest not its own : a circumstance unusual 

 among bees. The characters as laid down by Mr. Curtis do 

 not, we think, sufficiently distinguish it from Bombus. PI. 469. 

 Barborus hamatus, (Diptera Muscidae) ; 470. Hister 4?-macu- 

 latus, (Coleoptera Histerida?). This is the Hister sinuatus of 



