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PhUeremus algeriejms and var. Q, Radoszkowsky, /. c. p. 31, Algeria. 
Epeolus fallax, Morawitz, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxii. p. 387, Italy. 
Ccelioxys mandibular is, Chevrier, /. c. p. 487, Nyon , C. foersteri, Morawitz, 
Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 211, Dalmatia, Epirus ; C. ohtusispina, Thomson, /. c- 
p. 277, Gothland. 
Stelis 7-vJicornis, Morawitz, c. viii. p. 210, Rhodes. 
Tetralonia radoszkovskii, id. /. c. ix. p. 50, Saratov ; T. alhirufa, Radosz- 
kowsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 193, Samarcand. 
Anthophora denticrus, Morawitz, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxii. p. 356, Creuznach ; 
A. rogenhoferi, id. Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 201, Tinus, Rhodes; A. nigri- 
corm's, p. 45, deserticola, p. 48, Astracan, gracilipes, p. 46, Derbent, Caucasus, 
id. ibid. ix. ; A. fedchenkoi, Radoszkowsky, ihid. viii. p. 189, pi. vii. fig. 2, 
Samarcand. 
Xylocopa valga, Gerstacker, S. E. Z. xxxiii. p. 276, Bozen, Crimea, Syria, 
Trieste. 
Bomhm vorticosus, id. c. p. 290, Cracow, Greece, Roumelia, Dauria. 
Vespid^. 
"Inlandsche sociale "VVespen," by H. J. van Ankum (Groningen : 1870), 
has not been seen by the Recorder. 
Synagris calida : economy described, from Natal. Taschenberg, Z. ges. 
Naturw. xxxix. pp. 1-5. 
Behnogaster sp. : described (not named) and habits recorded, from Natal : 
id. I. c. pp. 18-20. 
Polistes gallicus. Radoszkowsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. Bull. pp. v & vi, 
indorsing Sichel's opinion, that P. diadema, geoffroyi, pictio?-, biglumis, and 
hucharensis are merely varieties of this, the only European species, which is 
also spread over Africa and Asia, also refers P. chinensis, F., Sauss., from the 
Himalayas to it. Differences are attributed to hybridization. 
Vespa crabro : specimens from Europe, Siberia, and N. America are cer- 
tainly specifically identical, whereas V. orientalis, fram Asia, differs from it 
in the structure of the genital organs. F. Smith, P. E. Soc. 1872, p. x. 
Vespa gennanica. Note on nidification by H. J. van Ankum, Arch. Neerl. 
v. 1870 (sep. Abdr.). 
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Stizus annulatus, Klug, described, from Astrabad. Radoszkowsky, Hor. 
Ent. Ross. viii. p. 198. 
Observations on various species of Ampulex, Priononyx, Sphex, Pseudu- 
sphex, Chlorion, Stethorectus, Podium, Pelopoeus, Ammophila, Pepsis, Priono- 
cnemus {Priocnemis, auctt.), Agenia, Pogonius, Pompilus, Planiceps, and Cero- 
pales, from the district of La Plata, in connexion with Taschenberg's paper 
in Z. ges. Naturw. xxxvi. : H. Bunneister, S. E. Z. xxxiii. p. 239 et seq. 
Ammophila sabulosa : defective neuration in fore wing : C. Ritsema, 
Tijdschr. Ent. (2) vii. p. xxxv. pi. 12. fig. a. 
PelopcBUS chalybeus and ^^pirifex, from Natal : habits &c. noted by Taschen- 
berg, Z. ges. Naturw. xxxix. pp. 11 & 12. 
Pompilus (? fuscus). F. Karsch, Z. ges. Naturw. xxxix. pp. 441-462, pi. iii.. 
