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HYMENOPTERA. 
Smith, Frederick. Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera of 
Japan, collected by Mr. George Lewis at Nagasaki and 
Hiogo. Tr. E. Soc. 1873, pp. 181-206. 
Refers only to the Acideata, out of 80 species of which, 52 were un- 
described, the rest being known from N. China, India, Borneo, and islands 
in the Indian and Australian regions of the Archipelago : 3 were identical 
with European and 2 with N. American species. 
VoLLENHOVEN, S. C. SNELLEN VAN. Nieuwc Naamlijfit van 
Nederlandsche vliesvleugelige Insecten (Hymenoptera). 
Tweede Stuk. Tijdschr. Ent. (2) viii. pp. 147-208. 
Continues the work mentioned in Zool. Rec. vi. p. 305, by enumerating 
the "/c7mewmomV/ea," " 5mconzcZe«," and "C^«Zc^W^VZe^^;" the total number 
(including the 1st part) being 1072. Some new species are described 
at the end. 
Walsh, B. D. Descriptions of North American Hymenoptera. 
Tr. Ac. St. Louis, iii. pp. 65-166. 
Observations on Te7ithredinidcc, and new genera and species of Ichneu- 
monicke^ with valuable comparative and other remarks. These are 
reproduced from the deceased author's MS., and notes are added by 
E. T. Cresson, who has examined the types. No specific localities are 
mentioned; but, from a remark in Rec. Am. Ent. for 1873, p. 67, it 
vseems that the species probably come for the most part from Northern 
Illinois. 
In " Jottings during the Cruise of H. M. S. Curacoa among the South 
Sea Islands in 1865" (Julius L. Brenchley, London: 1873, 8vo, pis. 
xliii.-l.), are descriptions by F. Smith of 7 new species of Aculeate Hymen- 
optera, with notices and figures of a few other known species. 
Captures at Velzen, by Everts ; Tijdschr. Ent. (2) viii. Versl. p. xxx. 
Afibm. 
H, Muller's 'Anwendung der Darwin'schen Lehre auf Bienen' 
(Lippstadt : 1873, 8vo, 96 pp. 2 pis.), has not been seen by the Recorder. 
It is exhaustively reviewed by A. Hensel in B. E. Z. xvii. pp. 153-158. 
Dours, R. Z. (3)i. pp. 274-325, pi. xiv., continues his " Hymenoptercs du 
Bassin Mediterraneen," describing new genera and species (many by 
Sichel & Dufour, not before published), and figuring the abdominal seg- 
ments of some of them. 
Andrenides. 
JIalictus suhopacus^ Sm., from Japan, = H. opacus, from N. China ; 
F. Smith, Tr. E. Soc. 1873, p. 200. 
And vena ami Halictus : diagnostic observations and suggestions as to 
synonymy of various allied species. Scheuck, B. E. Z. xvii. pp. 254-251). 
Andremi doursana^ Duf. : $ from Algiers described ; Doiirs, R. Z, (3) i. 
