GENERA AND SUBGENERA OF BEES—SANDHOUSE 531 
Binghamiella CocKERELL. 
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 23, p. 285, 1907. 
Type.—Sphecodes antipodes F. Smiru, 1853. (Monobasic.) 
Birkmania VIERECK. 
Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 11, p. 50, 1909. 
Type.—(Birkmania andrenoides Virreck, 1909)=—Panurginus polytrichus 
CocKERELL, 1909. (Monobasie and original designation. ) 
Synonym of Panurginus NYLANDER, according to Crawford, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Washington, vol. 28, p. 213, 1926. 
Bombias RoBERTSON. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 29, p. 176, 1903. Three species. 
Type.—Bombias auricomus RoBERTSON, 1903. (Original designation.) 
Bomboixylocopa MA. 
Lingnan Sci. Journ., vol. 18, p. 155, 1939. Three species. 
Type.—X ylocopa bomboides F. Smiru, 1879. (Original designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Xylocopa Latreille. 
Bombomelecta PATTON. 
Bull. U. 8S. Goel. Surv. Terr., vol. 5, p. 370, 1879. 
Type.—Melecta thoracica Cresson, 1876. (Monobasic.) 
Synonym of Melecta Latreille, according to Dalla Torre, Catalogus hymen- 
opterorum, vol. 19, p. 313, 1896, and Linsley, Ann. Ent. Soc. America, vol. 32, 
p. 485, 1939. 
Bombus LATREILLD (—Bremus Jurtny, 1801; Bremus Panzer, 1804(?)). 
Histoire naturelle de Fourmis, p. 457, 1802. 
Type.—(Apis terrestris Fapricrus, 1775)=Apis terrestris LINNAEUS, 1758. 
(Monobasic. ) 
Isogenotypic with Terrestribombus Vogt and Lewcobombus Dalla Torre. 
The suppression of the “Erlangen List” by the International Commission 
(Opinion 135, 1939) invalidates Bremus Jurine, 1801. 
Bombusoides MorscHutsky [fossil]. 
Etud. Ent., vol. 5, p. 28, 1856. 
Type.-—Bombusoides mengei MorscHunsky, 1856. (Monobasic.) 
Brachycephalapis VIERECK. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 47, 1809. 
Type.—Melitta (Brachycephalapis) californica Vurreck, 1809. (Monobasic 
and original designation. ) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Melitta Kirby. 
(Brachyglossa FRIESE, not Borspuvat, 1829, not Fauve, 1866) =Brachyglossula 
HEDICKE. 
Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Jena, vol. 34, p. 577, 1922. 
Type.—Brachyglossa rufocaerulea Friese, 1922. (Monobasic.) 
Brachyglossula Hepicke (=Pasiphae Spinonia, 1851, not LATREILLE, 1819; 
Brachyglossa FRIESE, 1922, not BoIspUVAL, 1829, not FAUVEL, 1866). 
Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., p. 427, 1922. 
Type.—Brachyglossa rufocaerulea Friese, 1922. (Autobasiec with Brachy- 
glossa Friese). 
Brachymelecta LINSLEY. 
Ann. Ent. Soe. America, vol. 32, p. 458, 1919. 
Type.—WMelecta mucida Cresson, 1879. (Monobasic and original designa- 
tion. ) 
Brachynomada HOLMBERG. 
Anal. Soc. Cient. Argentina, vol. 22, pp. 289 and 272, 1886. Two species. 
Type.—Brachynomada argentina HoLMBere, 1886. (Present designation.) 
