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abdomen five yellow-green (Smith says blue-green) bauds, 

 slightly shot with red, the first being on first segment ; 

 postscutellum densely tomentose, unarmed ; area of meta- 

 thorax appearing as a narrow shining band, with a triangular 

 dull apical part abruptly separated from it ; second s.m. 

 small, higher than long; hind femora not thickened, but 

 tibiae strongly curved. The female is evidently the same 

 species; it has five abdominal bands, very strongly vermilion. 



Nomia eleganSj Smith, 



Type in Wilson Saunders collection. 



? . — Abdomen with four yellow-green bands, first on first 

 segment ; punctures of mesothorax very fine and weak; ante- 

 rior wings with apical dusky cloud ; tegulse pale fulvous ; 

 area of metathorax channelled, with cross-ridges ; tibiae and 

 tarsi light ferruginous. 



Schmiedehnechtia oraniensis, Friese. 



I examined this in Mr. Morice's collection, and noted that 

 it was very like the American genus Neopasites, Ashm., with 

 the same hair-spots on abdomen. Head subglobose; second 

 s.m. large and triangular ; b. n. meeting nervulus. Ashmead 

 says " labial palpi (?) 5-jointed/' but it should be maxillary 

 palpi. The genera are perhaps identical, but in Neopasites 

 the mandibles are bidentate, whereas Friese describes 

 S. oraniensis as having them simple. 



XXX. — Notes on the Nomenclature of tlie Family Scolytidse. 

 By Lt.-Col. Winn Sampson, F.E.S. 



As regards the question whether this family should be called 

 Ipidae or Scolytidse, it is unnecessary to give a detailed 

 account of all that has been written on the subject, as it 

 seems to have been entirely overlooked by Ganglbauer 

 [Munich. Koleopt. Zeit. 1903, p. 311, footnote (sep.)] and 

 others that Dr. A. F. Fourcroy, in 1785, published a small 

 book in Paris entitled ^Entomologla Parisiensis/ the preface 

 to which states that the trivial names therein were added by 

 Geoffroy himself to rectify the omissions in his original work, 

 and on page 139 of the first volume the specific name of 

 " niger " is added to Scolytus. 



It is evident, therefore, that the generic name Eccoptogaster, 

 Herbst, must give place to Scolytus ^ as having a seniority of 

 eight years, and, although the Ijps of De Geer was erected in 



