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INSECTA^ HYMENOPTERA. 
M. comhusta, Sm. ; economy described, from Natal : Taschenberg-, Z. ges. 
IS'aturw. xxxix. pp. 7-10. 31. brevis. Say, figured, and habits noted, by Reed, 
Rep. Ins. Ont. i. pp. 24-26, fig. 22. M. centuncidaris : habits described by R. 
Walker, Scot. Nat. i. p. 222. 
Atithidium. Walther Schmid, MT. schw. ent. Ges. iii. pp. 448-475, pL, 
describes the Swiss species, giving particulars of external anatomy, analytical 
tables, &c. The plate is of little value. This paper is severely criticized by 
A. Miiller, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 95, from whose remarks it would appear that it 
is founded on unacknowledged MS. of the late W. Imhofi. 
Nomada suhcormda, Kby., is separated from lineola, Panz., and jacohcecBy 
Kby., var. h, is attributed to it as its Si cornigera, Kby., is also separated 
from lineola ; N. qninques2nnosa, Thoms., is compounded of ohscura and ochro- 
stoma, Nyl., ochrostoma, Zett. pt, and ? lateralis, Sm., and pallescens, H.-S. ; 
N. Iceta, Thorns., =albiguttata, var. 6, H.-S., ? = baccata, Sm. (both are para- 
sitic on Andrena argentata) ; Apis leucophthalma, L., is possibly to be referred 
to N. borealis, Zett. ; N. glabella, Thorns., = ochrosto?na, Zett., pt. ; N. puncti- 
scuta, Thorns., ?= ochrostoma, Mor., ? Kby. ; N. villosa. Thorns., ? = hillana, 
Kby. ; N. xanthosticta, Khj.j^ lateralis, Panz., cer^e [in which case either 
xanthosticta or lateralis of Smith requires renaming] : Thomson, I. c. 
Ep>eoloides, Gir., recharacterized; maxillary palpi (6-jointed) of E. amhi- 
guns, cT & $ ) figured, pi. 1. fig. 3 ; & 5 of a species in the Vienna Museum 
noted as having only 2 cubital cells. E. ccecutiens, Gerst., nec F.,= fulviven- 
tris, '^ch\., = Saropoda fulva, l^vevsm.., = ambiguus, Gir., S . Radoszkowsky, 
Bull. Mosc. xlv. 1, p. 4 et seq. 
Ammobates, Latr., recharacterized: maxillary palpi 6-jointed ; those of ^. 
setosus, Mor. (adopted for the prior vinctus of Gerstacker, on account of the 
greater applicability of its name!), figured, pi. 1. fig. 1, and of ruftventns, 
Latr., fig. 2 : id. I. c. p. 7 et seq. 
Ammobatoides, Radosz., nec Schenck, is renamed Paidia [rectius Pcedia'] by 
Radoszkowsky, Ilor. Ent. Ross. viii. Bull. p. xxi (Nov. 1872), and Bull. INFosc. 
xlv. p. 10. In the latter publication, the author severely (and apparently with 
justice) criticizes Gerstacker's treatment of this genus; but it seems useless 
to give a fresh name for it in 1872, since Gerstacker has employed the name 
Phiarus for it in 1869. The genus is recharacterized, and the 6-jointed 
maxillary palpi of both sexes of P. abdominalis and melectoides, and the anus 
of the former, $ , figured, pi. 1. figs. 4 & 5, 6, and 16-16 i. P. hirsidulus, Ev., 
is corroborated as abdominalis, S- Euglages sc?'ipta, Gerst., = P. melectoides, 
Rad. (? Smith), <? : the author seems to prove that his we/ec/o/r/es is not iden- 
tical with Smith's prior Philere7nus of that name [if he be right in this, it is 
not improbable that scrijjta, Gerst., may have to stand]. Id. Bull. Mosc. xlv. 
i. p. 10 et seq. 
Pasites, Latr., recharacterized : maxillary palpi (4-jointed) of both sexes of 
P. schotti and punctata, and anus of 2 of both species figured, pi. 1. figs. 7, 8, 
14-1 4 <?, and 15-1/5 &. Biastes, Panz., though prior, is considered irrecogniz- 
able, and B. b?'evicornis, Panz., is dropped in favour of schotti, F., as Panzer 
him'*elf adopted the latter name, Nomada atra, V., being still considered 
doubifiu as its c^. Philere?nus nasutus, Gerst., = P. punctata^ Schenck. Id. 
I. c. p. 1 9 et seq. 
Aminubatoides, Schenck, recliiiraclorizod : maxillary palpi of $ i^J-joiuted, 
