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Mr. Smith's paper on Hymenoptera possesses all the excellencies 

 of that accomplished entomologist ; the instances of parasitism which 

 Mr. Smith has established from actual observation are extremely inte- 

 resting, especially to an entomologist who thirty years ago associated 

 these parasites under the name of cuckoo-bees.* 



Epeolus variegatus, parasitic on Colletes Daviesana 



Nomada varia, „ 



„ furva „ 



„ Solidaginis, „ 



„ Jacobeae, „ 



„ ruficornis, „ 



„ lateralis, „ 



„ baccata, „ 



„ ochrostoma, „ 



„ borealis, „ 



„ armata, „ 



„ germanica, „ 



„ sexfasciata, „ 



Ccelioxys quadridentata,, 



„ Vectis, „ 



„ simplex, „ 



„ umbrina, „ 



Stelis aterrima, „ 



„ phceoptera, „ 



„ octomaculata, „ 



Genus Melecta, „ 



Apathus rupestris, „ 



„ campestris, „ 



„ Barbatellus, „ 



„ vestalis, „ 



Halictus rubicundus 

 „ Morio 

 „ abdominalis 

 Andrena fulvicrus 

 „ nigro-aenea 

 „ longipes 

 „ argentata 

 „ labialis 

 „ Clarkella 

 „ Hattorfiana 

 „ fulvescens 

 Eucera longicornis 

 Megachile argentata 

 „ maritima 

 „ Willughbiella 

 Saropoda bimaculata 

 Osmia aurulenta 

 „ fulviventris 

 „ leucomelana 

 Genus Anthophora 

 Bombus lapidarius 

 „ Hortorum 

 „ Pratorum 

 „ terrestris 



* " Apathites, cuckoo-bees. Larva hatched from an egg deposited by its parent 

 in the nests of all the preceding Apina at the time when their own eggs are laid : 

 when it hatches, being stronger and larger than the rightful possessor of the cell, it 

 consumes the food provided for its companion, and starves it to death ; and in those 

 instances in which fresh supplies of food are daily provided it continues to receive and 

 appropriate them as its own. Pupa changes in the same situation, in a silken cocoon 

 spun by the larva. Imago has no apparatus either on the body or legs for collecting 

 honey ; in other respects it resembles in structure each of the orders of Apina before 

 described ; it enters their nest with perfect familiarity, and seems to be quite unsus- 

 pected of intrusion ; it collects no pollen or honey, never builds a nest of any kind or 

 takes any care of its young, but spends its time among flowers, or hovering about 

 sand-banks in which other bees have fixed their habitations. Apathus, Ccelioxys, 

 Melecta, Stelis, Epeolus, Nomada, Hylseus ? "— Ent. Mag. ii. 404. 



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