GENERA AND SUBGENERA OF BEES—SANDHOUSE 571 
(Melissoda LEPELETIER) —Ctenioschelus RoMAND. 
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptéres, vol. 2, p. 508, 1841. 
Type.— (Melissoda latreillei LEPELETIER, 1841) = (Acanthopus) Ctenioschelus 
goryi (Romanp), 1840. (Monobasic.) 
Isogenotypic with Ctenioschelus Romand through synonymy. 
Melissode LATREILLE, nomen nudum. 
Familles naturelles du régne animal... , p. 464, 1825. 
(Melissodes BERTHOLD, nomen nudum) for Melissode LATREILLE. 
Latreille’s natiirliche Familien des Thierreichs, p. 468, 1827. 
Melissodes LATREILLE. 
In Cuvier, Régne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 5, p. 354, 1829. No species. 
Romand, in Guérin, Mag. Zool., ser. 2, ann. 3, p. 5, pl. 70, 1841. One species. 
Type.—Melissodes fonscolombei RomAnp, 1841. (VWirst included species.) 
Apis (Melissodes) leprieuri Blanchard designated by Blanchard (in Cuvier, 
Régne Animal, [ed. 3], insectes, text vol. 2, p. 216; atlas pl. 128 bis, 
fig. 4, [1849]). 
Melissoptila HormMBenra. 
Actas Acad. Nae. Ciene. Cérdoba, vol. 5, p. 119, 1884. 
Type.—Melissoptila tandilensis Hotmpere, 1884. (Monobasic.) 
Synonym of Tetralonia Spinola, according to Ducke, Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., 
Jena, vol. 34, p. 97, 1912. 
(Mfelitoma BrErRTHOLD, nomen nudum) for Melitome LATREILLE. 
Latreille’s natiirliche Familien des Thierreichs, p. 468, 1827. 
Melitoma LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE (—Meliphila Scurorrky). 
Encycl. Méthod., Hist. Nat., Ins., vol. 10, p. 529, 1828. 
Type.—Melitoma euglossoides LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE, 1828. (Monobasic.) 
Isogenotypie with Meliphila Schrottky through synonymy. 
Melitome LATREILLE, nomen nudum. 
Familles naturelles du régne animal... , p. 464, 1825. 
Melitribus RAYMENT. 
Proc. Roy. Soe. Victoria, new ser., vol. 42, p. 217, 1980. Two species. 
Type.—Melitribus greavesi RAYMENT, 1930. (Original designation.) (@as- 
tropsis) Melitribus victoriae (COocKERELL), 1906, designated by Rayment, 
Proc. Roy. Soe. Victoria, new ser., vol. 48, p. 61, 19380. 
The genotypes of both Stenotritus F. Smith and G@astropsis F. Smith were 
included in Melitribus by Rayment, Victorian Nat. vol. 47, p. 11, 1980. 
A subgenus of Stenotritus F. Smith according to Cockerell, Austr. Zool., 
vol. 8, pt. 1, p. 6. 
Melitta Kirsy (=—Kirbya Lepeterimr, 1841, not RoBINEAU-DeEsvoIpy, 1830). 
Monographia apum Angliae, vol. 1, pp. 117, 130, and 114, and vol. 2, p. 4, 1802. 
Many species. 
Type.—Melitta tricincta KirBy, 1802. (By designation of Richards, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. London, vol. 88, p. 172, 1985.) This species was described by 
Kirby in vol 2, p. 171, but the two volumes apparently appeared simul- 
taneously. 
Isogenotypie with Kirbya Lepeletier. 
(Melittidia Datta Torre) for Mellitidia Guérin. 
Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 10, p. 99, 1896. 
Melittoides FRIESE. 
Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 87, Abt. A, pp. 161 to 174, and 177 to 180, 1921. Seven 
species. 
Type.—Andrena melittoides Frirse, 1899. (By absolute tautonymy.) 
