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VIII. Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan, 
collected hy Mr. George Lewis at Nagasaki 
and Hiogo. By Frederick Smith. 
[Read 17tli February, 1873.] 
This collection is specially interesting, not only on account 
of its being the first, of any extent, that has been investi- 
gated and described, but also from the amount of interesting 
addition which it makes to the knowledge of geographical 
distribution of genera and species. The collection con- 
tained several additional species of AndrenidcB, but as the 
whole were sent in spirit, these pubescent insects were not 
in a condition desirable for description, the hair being 
matted together, and the original brightness of the colour 
evidently destroyed. 
I received eighty species of Aculeata ; of these, fifty- 
two I believe to be undescribed ; the others, twenty-eight 
in number, are well-known species, described from speci- 
mens obtained from North China, India, Borneo, and 
islands in the Indian and Australian regions of the Archi- 
]:)elago. Only three insects are identical with species 
found in Europe, and two with species of North America. 
On a future occasion I hope to publish descriptions of 
a number of Tenthredinidce and IchneumonidcB, and also 
some very interesting species of FormicidcB, received at 
the same time as the Aculeata. 
The following list comprises the genei'a and the number 
of species of each described in the present paper : — 
1 species 
Mutilla 
4 
species 
Tiphia 
5 
Scolia 
5 
Pompilus 
9 
Priocnemis 
3 
Agenia 
1 
Ammophila 
1 
Pelopseus 
3 
Sphex 
1 
Anipulex 
1 
Larrada 
5 
Bembex 
1 
Trypoxylon 
1 species 
Osmia 
1 
Cerceris 
1 » 
Mecracbile 
2 
Eumenes 
2 
Lithiirgus 
1 
Rhyncbium 
2 ,',' 
Nomada 
2 
Odynerus 
2 „ 
CcElioxys 
1 
Vespa 
5 „ 
Stelis 
1 
Polybia 
1 ,, 
Crocisa 
1 
Polistes 
3 „ 
Eucera 
1 
Prosopis 
2 ,, 
Anthophora 
1 
Spbecodes 
I „ 
Xylocopa 
1 
Halictus 
5 „ 
Bombus 
3 
Nomia 
1 » 
Apis 
1 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1873. — PART II. (mAY.) 
