GENERA AND SUBGENERA OF BEES—SANDHOUSE 567 
Richards, in The generic names of British insects, pt. 5, p. 90, 1937, has 
proposed that Macropis Panzer be added to the Official List of Generic 
Names. 
Macrotera F. SMITH. 
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects . . . British Museum, pt. 1, p. 130, 1853. 
Type.—Macrotera bicolor F. Smiru, 1853. (Monobasic.) 
Macroteropsis ASHMEAD. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 26, p. 85, 1899. 
Type.—Perdita latior CocKERELL, 1896. (Monobasic and original designa- 
tion. ) 
(Manuelia VAcHAL) =Corynura SPINOLA. 
Bull. Soe. Ent. France, p. 25, 1905. Three species. 
Type.—Halictus (Corynura) gayi SPrnoLa, 1851. (Present designation. ) 
Isogenotypie with Corynura Spinola and Corynogaster Sichel. 
Martinapis CocKERELL (—Martinella CocKERELL, 1903, not Jousseaume, 1887). 
Entomologist, vol. 62, p. 19, 1929. 
Type.—Melissodes luteicornis CocKERELL, 1896. (Autobasic.) 
(Martinella CocKERELL, not JOUSSEAUME, 1887) =Martinapis CocKERELL. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 12, p. 450, 1903. 
Type.—Melissodes luteicornis CocKERELL, 1896. (Monobasic.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Melissodes Latreille, 
Mastrucatobombus KRuUGER. 
Ent. Mitt., vol. 6, p. 66, 1917. 
Type.—Bombus mastrucatus GERSTAECKER, 1869. (Monobasic.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Bombus Latreille. 
Syonoym of Alpigenobombus Skorikov, according to Richards, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist., ser. 10, vol. 5, p. 636, 1930. 
Megabombus Datta TorrE (—Megalobombus Scuutrz). 
Naturhistoriker, vol. 2, p. 40, 1880. 
Type.—(Bombus ligusticus Sprnota, 1805)=Apis argillacea Scoroxt, 1763. 
(Monobasic. ) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Bombus Latreille. 
Megachile LATREILLE (—Anthemois Roprrison; Megalochila ScHutz). 
Histoire naturelle de fourmis, pp. 413 and 433, 1802. Thirteen species. 
Type.— (Apis) Megachile centuncularis (LINNAEUS), 1758. (By designation 
of Curtis, Brit. Ent. vol. 5, pl. 218, 1828.) (Xylocopa muraria Fabricius, 
1804)=Apis muraria Retzius, 1788, designated by Blanchard, Histoire 
naturelle des insects . . ., vol. 3, p. 408, 1840. 
Isogenotypic with Anthemois Robertson through synonymy. 
Megachiloides MITCHELL. 
Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soce., vol. 40, p. 154, 1924. 
Type.—Megachiloides oenotherae MircHELL, 1924. (Monobasic.) 
Megacilissa F. SmMirH (=Megalocilissa ScHuULz). 
Catalogue hymenopterous insects . . . British Museum, pt. 1, p. 128, 1853. 
Type.—(Megacilissa superba F. Smiry, 1853)=Caupolicana fulvicollis 
Sprnoia, 1851. (Monobasic.) 
Synonym of Caupolicana Spinola, according to Cockerell, Ent. News, vol. 11, 
p. 510, 1900, and Alfken, Ver. Deutsch. kolon-uebersee. Mus. Bremen, 
vol. 1, p. 317, 1986. 
(Megalobombus ScHutz) for Megabombus DALLA TORRE. 
Spolia hymenopterologica, p. 267, 1906. 
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