132 Dr. F. D. Godman on American 



Megaehih Grantiana, n. n. 



Megachile punctntissimn, W. F. Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus, iii. (1900) 

 p. 20.— Not of Spiuola, 1806. 



Hah. Sokotra {Ogilvie- Grant and Forbes). 



I informed Mr. Kirby of the preoccupation of the name 

 proposed by kim ; but as he is no longer working on Hy- 

 menoptera, he asks me to rectify the matter. 



Megachile paucipunctulata, W. F. Kirby. 



Mec/achile jxmcipmictalaia, W. F. Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus. iii. (1900) 



p. L^l.— Sokotra. 

 N. syu. : Megachile sokotrana, Friese, Zeits. f, Hym. unci Dipt. 190.3, 



p. 287. — Sokotra {Simony). 



Megachile subsericnns, n. n. 



Megachile vicina, Moraw. Horse Soc. Ent. Boss, xxviii. (1894) p. .37. — 

 Turkestan. — Not M. vicina, Mocsary, 1879. 



Megachile mixtula, n. n. 



Megachile ini.vta, Radoszkowski, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xlvii. (1874) 

 p. 138. — Caucasus. — Not M. mixta, Costa, 18G3. 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 

 June 5, 1907. 



XXTV. — Notes on the American Species of Hesperiidae 

 described by Plotz. By F. D. Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 &c. 



I HAVE recently had an opportunity of examining the large 

 number of coloured drawings made by the late Carl Plotz, 

 and am at last enabled to identify most of the Mexican and 

 Central-American species described in his various writings. 

 These drawings not only illustrate the numerous Hesperiids 

 named by him, but nearly all those tabulated or described by 

 Herrich-Schiitfer and other continental authors, and they are 

 therefore of the greatest interest to all students of Rhopalo- 

 cera. The following notes on his figures of the American 

 species, generally, give the necessary corrections to the 

 synonymy, &c.* The numerals in parentheses after each 

 name indicate the number of Plotz's drawings, and the locality 



* Drawings nos. 1328-1383 are unfortunately missing, and one 

 Central-American species, Netrocunjne coronas, I'lotz, still remains 

 uuideutiiied by me. 



