GENERA AND SUBGENERA OF BEES—SANDHOUSE 591 
(Prosopis JuRINE) =Prosopis FAsricius, 1804. 
Nouvelle méthode de classer les hyménoptéres et les diptéres, p. 218, 1807. 
Type.—(Sphevr signata PANzER, 1798) =Mellinus bipunctatus Fasricrus, 1798. 
(By designation of Morice and Durrant, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 416, 
1914.) 
Isogenotypie with Prosopis Fabricius and through synonymy with Auwricu- 
laria Popov. A proposal has been placed before the International Com- 
mission to add Prosopis Jurine, 1807, Nouvelle méthode de classer les 
hyménoptéres et les diptéres, with “Sphex signator Panzer, 1798” as geno- 
type to the Official List of Generic Names. (See Science, vol. 83, p. 552, 
1936.) This would result in the suppression of Hylaeus Fabricius and 
Prosopis Fabricius, 1804. 
Prosopisteron CoCKERELL. 
Entomologist, vol. 39, p. 17, 1906. 
Type.—Prosopisteron serotinellwm COCKERELL, 1906. (Monobasic.) 
Prosopoides FRIESE. 
Flora og Fauna Aarbog, p. 10, 1908. 
Type.—(Prosopoides paradoxrus FRIESE, 1908) =Oediscelis prosopoides DUCKB, 
1907. (Monobasic.) 
Synonym of Oediscelis Philippi, according to Frreser, (loc. cit.) and to Ducke, 
Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Jena, vol. 34, p. 83, 1912. 
Protandrena CocKERELL. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 18, p. 91, 1896. Five species. 
Can. Ent., vol. 28, p. 184, 1896. Five species. 
Type.—Andrena maurula CocKERELL, 1896. (Present designation. ) 
Protandrenopsis CRAWFORD. 
Can. Ent., vol. 35, p. 337, 1903. 
Type.—Protandrenopsis fuscipennis CRAwrorD, 1903. (Monobasie and origi- 
nal designation. ) 
Synonym of Pseudopanurgus CocKERELL, according to Cockerell, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 26, 1904. 
Protanthidium CocKERELL AND COCKERELL. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 7, p. 49, 1901. 
Type.—Megachile steloides BINGHAM, 1896. (Monobasic and original desig- 
nation. ) 
Synonym of Paraanthidium Friese, according to Mavromoustakis, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 19, p. 155. 1937; ser. 11, vol. 3, p. 90, 1939. 
Protepeolus LinsLey and MICHENER. 
Pan.-Pacifiec Ent., vol. 18, p. 75, 1937. 
Type.—Protepeolus singularis LINSLEY AND MICHENER, 1937. (Monobasic 
and original designation. ) 
Proteraner ROBERTSON. 
Ent. News, vol. 14, p. 103, 1903. 
Type.—Sphecodes ranunculi Ropertson, 1897. (Monobasic.) 
Proteriades TirTus. 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 12, p. 25, 1904. 
Type.—Heriades semirubra CocKERELL, 1898. (Monobasic. ) 
Protoanthidium CAMERON. 
Journ. Straits Branch, Roy. Asiastic Soc., vol. 37, p. 125, 1902. Three species. 
Type.—Protoanthidium rufobalteatum CAMERON, 1902. (Present designa- 
tion. ) 
Synonym of Dianthidiwm CocKERELL, according to Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist., ser. 9, vol. 9, p. 367, 1922. 
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