236 the entomologist. 



Toxocampim;. 



Toxocampa. — All Eastern Asian species, with the exception 

 of T. limosa, Treit., which is European, but does not occur in 

 Britain. 



Herminiidje. 



KlVULA SERICEALIS, Scop. 



Zanclognatha grisealis, Hiibn. 

 Z. tarsipennalis, Treit. 

 Herminia derivalis, Hiibn. 

 Pechypogon barbalis, Clerck. 



Hypenid.e. 

 Madopa salicalis, Schiff. (= Amblygoes cinerea, Butl.). 

 Bomolocha fontis, Thnb. (= crassalis, Fabr. = gilla, Butl.). 

 Hypena rostralis, Linn. 



GEOMETER. 



See list in ' Entomologist,' xxx. pp. 244-247, 312-316, and 

 xxxi. pp. 4-9. 



The British species of Rhopalocera occurring in Japan are 

 referred to in a paper entitled " On the Distribution in Eastern 

 Asia of certain Species of Lepidoptera occurring in Britain " 

 (Entom. xxiv. pp. 81-86). 



THE NORTH AMERICAN BEES of the GENUS PRUSAPIS. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell, N. M. Agr. Exp. Sta. 



(Concluded from p. 219.) 



The following table was prepared to separate the principal 

 forms studied, but it is not suggested that the distinctions are all 

 specific : — 



Females. 



1. Face all dark, tubercles all dark, size large . . basalts. 



2. Face not all dark ....... 3. 



3. Base of abdomen rufous ..... 4. 

 Base of abdomen concolorous with the rest . . 5. 



4. Legs fulvous ....... flammipes, 



Legs black, tibias partly yellow, hind tarsi fulvous nelumbonis. 



5. First abdominal segment distinctly punctured . 6. 

 First abdominal segment not distinctly or not at all 



punctured . . . . . . . . 8. 



