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(Apiarus RAFINESQUE) = Apis LINNAEUS. 
Analyse de la nature .. . corps organisés, p. 123, 1815. 
Type.—(Apis mellifica Faxsrictus, 1775)=Apis mellifera LINNAEvUS, 1758. 
(Autobasic. ) 
Proposed unnecessarily for Apis Linnaeus. 
Apis LINNAEUS (=Apiarus RAFINESQUE). 
Systema naturae, ed. 10, pp. 3843 and 574, 1758. Thirty-eight species. 
Type.—(Apis mellifica Fasricrus, 1775)=Apis mellifera LiINNArkuS, 1758. 
(By designation of Latreille, Considérations générales ... des insectes, 
p. 439, 1810.) 
(Apista F. SmiruH, not HUBNER, 1816) =Egapista CoCcKERELL. 
Journ. Ent., vol. 1, p. 148, 1861. 
Type.—A pista opalina F. Smiru, 1861. (Monobasic.) 
Archianthidium MAvROMOUSTAKIS. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, vol. 3, p. 91, 1989. Four species. 
Type.—Anthidium laticeps MorAwtitz, 18738. (Original designation.) 
Archimegachile ALFKEN. 
Konowia, vol. 12, p. 56, 1933. Six species. 
Type.—Megachile flavipes SprnoLa, 1838. (Original designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Megachile Latreille. 
Arctosmia SCHMIEDEKNECHT (=—Lithosmia ALFKEN). 
Apidae Europaeae, vol. 2, p. 21 [887], 1884-86 [1885]. 
Type.— (Megachile villosa SCHENCK, 1853, not Apis villosa Fasrictus, 1775) = 
Osmia platycera GERSTAECKER, 1869. (Monobasic.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Osmia Panzer. 
Isogenotypie with Lithosmia Alfken. 
Argochila MICHENER. 
Amer. Midland Nat., vol. 22, pp. 9 and 58, 1939. Fourteen species. 
Type.—Ashmeadiella timberlakei Micuenrr, 19386. (Original designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Ashmeadiella Cockerell. 
Argyropile MITCHELL. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 59, pp. 802, 308, and 311, 1934. Four species. 
Type.—Megachile parallela F. Smiru, 18538. (Original designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Megachile Latreille. 
Argyroselenis ROBERTSON. 
Can. Ent., vol. 35, p. 284, 1903. 
Type.—Triepeolus minimus Roverrson, 1902. (Monobasic and original 
designation. ) 
Synonym of Hpeolus Latreille, according to Linsley, Pan-Pacific Ent., vol. 15, 
p. 1, 1989. 
Arhysosage BRETHES. 
Anal. Soe. Cient. Argentina, vol. 93, p. 121, 1922. 
Type.—Arhysosage johnsoni BRETHES, 1922. (Monobasic.) 
Asaropoda COCKERELL. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 18, p. 216, 1926. Two species. 
Type.—Saropoda bombiformis F. Smrru, 1854. (Original designation.) 
Ashmeadiella CocKERELL. 
Ent. News, vol. 8, p. 197, 1897. Five species. 
Type.—Heriades opuntiae COCKERELL, 1897. (Original designation.) 
Ashtonipsithyrus FrIson. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 53, p. 69, 1927. Two species. 
Type.—(Apathus) Psithyrus ashtoni (CResson), 1864. (Original designa- 
tion. ) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Psithyrus Lepeletier. 
