publication of " Jurinean '* Genera of Hymenoptera. 421 



banded. Linne's description can only refer to one of the 

 Acuiilingues (such as Andrena F., Halidus Ltr., and Cilissa 

 Leach) — of these, Cilissa has an extremely subulate 

 tongue; Halidus also one which is distinctly subulate; 

 and Andrena one, which as compared with that of Colletes 

 might be called so. Yet there seems no doubt that Linne 

 named and placed in his cabinet as succincta a specimen of 

 Colletes. Kirby, in 1800, saw this specimen, and noticed 

 at once that the tongue did not agree with Linne's de- 

 scription. Nylander also (about 1850) examined the speci- 

 men, and has stated that it was a Colletes, not however the 

 insect now commonly called succincta, but a specimen of 

 fodiens Geoffr-Fourcr. Kirby and Latreille were in cor- 

 respondence about this insect, and it is quite certain that 

 to both these authors " succincta " meant the species so- 

 named in the Linnean cabinet, viz. a Colletes, and not an 

 Andrena. But Lamarck's Andrena succincta F. {Apis suc- 

 cincta L.) was as certainly not a Colletes, for his diagnosis 

 of the genus states expressly " Machoires et langue fort 

 allongees "■ — plainly, therefore, reckoning it among the 

 Acutilingues. The designation therefore of succincta L. 

 as Type of Andrena, in the modern sense, may be accepted 

 until it is shown for certain that the insect really described 

 by Linne (NB. — not the specimen in his Cabinet !) was 

 not, after all, a Halictus (such as quadricinctus F.), or a 

 Cilissa (such as leporina Pzr.). 



Colletes Ltr. being a good genus, and not a synonym of 

 Andrena F., therefore stands, but the species which is its 

 Type must not be called succincta. Latreille, as Kirby tells 

 us, sent the species to him with the name " glutinosus " — 

 this was published by Cuvier as Hylaeus glutinans [Apis 

 glutinans)—Th\. Element. HN. 493^ (An. VI. = 1797-8), 

 and is mentioned as a synonym of Colletes succincta by 

 Latreille (HN. Crust-Ins. 13. 355, 359). The species should 

 be known as Colletes glutinans Cuvier (= *succincta [nee L.] 

 Ltr.). 



48 

 III-33. Lasitjs Jrn. Erl. Litt-Ztg. 1. 164. 

 " Gen. 33 Lasius — Apis quadrimaculata Panzer.** 



[nee ^Lasius F. Syst. Piez. pp. xi, 415-8, Ind. 18, no. 78 sp. 

 1-10 (1804)]. 



LASIUS Jrn. (1801) 

 = PODALIRIUS Ltr. (1802); = Anthophora Ltr. (1803); 

 = Meqilla F. (1804). 



