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Aspidosmia BRAUNS. 
Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Jena, vol. 52, p. 208, 1926. 
Type.—Osmia (Aspidosmia) arnoldi Brauns, 1926. (Monobasic.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Osmia Panzer. 
Atoposmia COCKERELL. 
Pan-Pacifie Ent., vol. 11, p. 50, 1985. 
Type—Osmia (Atoposmia) triodonta CocKERELL, 1935. (Monobasic.) 
Proposed as subgenus of Osmia Panzer. 
(Audineta ASHMEAD) for Audinetia LEPELETIER. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 26, p. 97, 1899. 
(Audinetia LEPELETIER ) =Platynopoda WESTWOOD. 
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptéres, vol. 2, p. 203, 1841. Six 
species. 
Type.—(Xylocopa latipes Wasricius, 1804)—Apis latipes Drury, 17738. 
(Present designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Xylocopa Latreille. 
Isogenotypic with Platynopoda Westwood. 
Augochlora F. SmMirTH. 
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects ... British Museum, pt. 1, p. 78, 1853. 
Many species. 
Type.—Halictus purus Say, 1937. (By designation of Cockerell, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 448, 1923.) 
Augochlorella SANDHOUSE. 
Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 27, p. 66, 1937. Four species. 
Type.—Augochlora gratiosa F. SmirH, 1853. (Original designation.) 
Augochloropsis CoCKERELL. 
Can. Ent., vol. 29, p. 4, 1897. Four species. 
Type.—(Augochlora (Augochloropsis) subignita CocKERELL, 1897) =Augo- 
chlora ignita F. SmirH, 1861. (Original designation.) Augochlora spinolae 
Cockereil, 1900, designated by Schrottky, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., p. 481, 
1999, was not originally included. 
Proposed as a Subgenus of Augochlora F. Smith. 
(Augochloropsis ScurotrKy, 1909, not CocKkErEetL, 1897)=Paraugochlora 
SCHROTTRY. ; 
Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., p. 481, 1909. Two species. 
Type.—Augochlora spinolae CocKERELL, 1900. (Designated by Schrottky, 
Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., p. 481, 1909.) 
Auricularia M@HELY. 
Naturgeschichte der Urbienen, pp. 41 and 147, 1985. Three species. 
Invalid under Article 25¢ of the International Rules of Zoological Nomen- 
clature, since no type was designated. 
(Auricularia Popov, not BLAINVILLE, 1816, not DeFRANcE, 1816, not Fasricius, 
1823, not MUxrier, 1850) Prosopis Farricius, 1804. 
Compt. Rend. (Doklady) Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S., new ser., vol. 25, p. 168, 1939. 
Type.—(Mellinus) Prosopis bipunctatus Faprictus, 1798. (Monobasie and 
original designation. ) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Prosopis Fabricius. 
Isogenotypic with Prosopis Fabricius, 1804, through synonymy. 
Auricularia was first proposed by Méhely, Naturgeschichte der Urbienen, 
pp. 41 and 147, 1935, as a subgenus of Prosopis Fabricius to include three 
Species, but no original genotype designation was made and, according to 
Article 25¢ (amendment), Auricularia Méhely, 1935, is invalid. 
