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hernia, eleven are from GEningen, Baden, one is from Orsberg, 

 four (very imperfectly known) are from Prussian amber, three 

 (two of them said to occur also at ffiningen) are from Eadoboj, 

 Croatia, and four are from Rott, in Rhenish Prussia. The full 

 bibliographical details will be found in Scudder's catalogue of 

 fossil insects, Bulletin 71, U.S. Geological Survey. 



Some of the QEningen species are well preserved, but the 

 others are for the most part so imperfect as to be of wholly 

 doubtful generic position. Anthophorites gaudryi, Oustalet, 1870, 

 from Corent, has a curiously fiy-like appearance, according to 

 the figure, and, since its hairs are not plumose, it is presumably 

 not a bee. Its wings are not preserved, except a small portion 

 of the base. 



The species from Rott, all described by Heyden (1859 and 

 1862), have been assigned to Anthophora, Apis, Bombiis, and 

 Osmia. I found in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Harvard University a series of specimens from Rott, received 

 years ago from Dr. Krantz. They are labelled Apis dormitans, 

 Anthophora effossa, and Osmia carbonum ; but it is evident that 

 they were not part of Heyden's material, as they do not agree with 

 his figures and descriptions. The " Anthophora effossa,'' in fact, 

 is an ant, about 5 mm. long. The '^ Apis dormitans" is repre- 

 sented by two specimens, with the venation partially preserved. 

 One is about 15 mm. long, stout-bodied, with the hind margins 

 of the abdominal segments broadly pale, and the hind basi- 

 tarsus broadened. What can be seen of the venation, of both 

 anterior and posterior wings, will do for true Apis, except that 

 the basal nervure almost meets the transverso-medial, only just 

 falling short of it. The transverso-medial of the hind wings is 

 scarcely oblique, thus resembling more that of A. florea, Fabr., 

 than that of A. mellifera, L., or A. dorsata, Fabr. The approxi- 

 mation of the basal nervure to the transverso-medial agrees with 

 the living genus Melipona. 



The second '* Apis dormitans " has dark spots at the sides of 

 the abdominal segments, and the basal nervure seems straighter. 

 It appears to be congeneric with the first, but possibly not con- 

 specific. 



That these bees are the genuine A. dormitajis certainly can- 

 not be afiirmed. The original figure of that species shows vena- 

 tion which cannot possibly be reconciled with them, even allowing 

 for bad drawing ; the size also seems too small. 



" Osmia carhonum " is represented by a very good specimen, 

 with reverse ; and an example of a quite different, much smaller, 

 species, the venation of which cannot be seen. The original 

 O. carhonum, as also the original ^/i^/io/)/io?'rt ef'ossa, was without 

 any visible wings. 



The other specimen, with reverse, is evidently congeneric, at 

 least, with the specimens of " Apis dormitans.'' It is undoubtedly 



