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Melittosmithia ScHuLz (—Smithia VAcHAL, 1897, not Mrnrnr-Epwarps, 1851, not 
SAUSSURE, 1855, not MABILLE, 1880, not MALTzAN, 18838, not MonTEROSATO, 1884}, 
Spolia hymenopterologica, p. 244, 1906. 
Type.—Scrapter carinata F. SmirH, 1862. (Autobasic.) 
Melittoxena MORAWITZz. 
Horae Soc. Ent. Ross., vol. 9, p. 154, 1872 (1873). 
Type.—Nomada truncata NyiANDER, 1848. (Monobasic.) 
Synonym of Biastes Panzer, according to Dalla Torre, Catalogus hymen- 
opterorum, vol, 10, p. 501, 1896. 
Melitturga LATREILLE (—Meliturga LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE). 
Genera crustaceorum et insectorum ... , vol. 4, p. 176, 1809. 
Type.—Hucera clavicornis LATREILLE, 1806. (Monobasic. ) 
(Meliturga LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE) for Melitturga LAIREILLE. 
Encycl. Méthod., Hist. Nat., Ins., vol. 10, p. 789, 1828. 
Meliturgopsis ASHMEAD. 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 26, p. 62, 1899. No species. 
Cockerell and Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 7, p. 49, 1904. 
No species. 
Cockerell, Psyche, vol. 10, p. 77, 1903. No species. 
Cockerell, Proe. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 414, 1909 (May). One species. 
Type.—EHmphoropsis murihirta subsp. murina CocKERELL, 1909. (First ia- 
cluded form.) Anthophora aurulentocaudata Dours, 1869, designated by 
Vachal, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 78, p. 9, 1909 (July). 
Synonym of Hmphoropsis Ashmead, according to Cockerell, 1901, 1903, and 
1909. 
Meliturgula FrRIEsE. 
Zeitschr. Syst. Hym. Dipt., vol. 3, p. 83, 1908. 
Type.—Meliturgula braunsi Friese, 1903. (Monobasic.) 
Mellitidia Gu&riIn (—Melittidia DALLA TorRE). 
In Duperrey’s Voyage autour du Monde, exécuté... sur la Corvette La 
Coquille . . ., vol. 2, Zool., pt. 2, p. 270, (1880) 1888. 
Type.—Andrena australis GuERIN, 1880. (Monobasic.) 
Mendacibombus SkorIkKoy. 
Rev. Russe Ent., vol. 14, p. 125, 1914. Nine species. 
Type.—Bombus mendax GERSTAECKER, 1869. (Present designation because 
of virtual tautonymy.) 
Mermigiossa FRIESE. | 
Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 78, Abt. A, Heft 5, p. 188, 1912. | 
Type.—Mermiglossa rufa Friese, 1912. (Monobasic.) 
Merogilossa F. SMITH. 
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects . .. British Museum, pt. 1, p. 33, 1853, 
Type.—Meroglossa canaliculata F. Smiry, 1853. (Monobasic.) 
Meroglossula PERKINS. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 9, p. 99, 1912. 
Type.—Meroglossa eucalypti CockErRELt, 1910. (Monobasic. ) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Meroglossa F. Smith. 
Mesocheira LEPELETIFR AND SERVILLE (—Mesochira ScHUIZ). 
Encycl. Méthod., Hist. Nat., Ins., vol. 10, p. 106, 1825. Three species. 
Type.—(Mesocheira bicolor LepeLeTIER)=Melecta bicolor Faprictus, 1804. 
(By designation of Taschenberg, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 27, p. 72, 1883.) 
(Mesochira Scuutz) for Mesocheira LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE. 
Spolia hymenopterologica, p. 257, 1906. 
