APID^. 
349, 
Phileremus, Gerst., is re-chavacterized as a new genus, under the name 
llelittoxena, for the reception of Nomada truncata, ISTyl. (P. punctatus, 
Gerst.). The maxillary palpi are 4-jointed, not 2-jointed, as Gerstiicker 
states, and differences are pointed out between N. truncata, Nyl., and 
Epeoliis punctatus, F. Ammohates, Latr., has G-jointed maxillary palpi, 
and comprises muticus, Spin. (= rujiventris, Latr.), vinctus, Gerst., and 
setosus, Mor. Phileremus, Latr. (Ammobatokles, Schenck), has 3-jointed 
max. palpi, and contains one species, bicolor, Lep., — hirhianus, Latr., = 
jmnctatus, F. ; [? gen.] carinatus, Mor., has 2-jointed max. palpi. Mora- 
witz, Hor. Ent. Ross. ix. pp. 154-159. 
Crocisa histrio, F., and Antliopliora nidulans, F., are recorded fi'om 
Japan, and the queen of Apis nigricincta, Sm., is described : F. Smith, 
Tr. E. Soc. 1873, p. 204 et seq. 
Megilla caligata, Gerst., from Mombas, figured in V. d. Decken's Reisen, 
iii. pt. 2, pi. xiii. fig. 10. 
Anthophora retusa, L. & Kirby, and A. cestivalis,'Pz. : Schenck, I. c. 
p. 248, discusses the confusion of nomenclature attending these species, 
and gives various sexual diagnostic characters. 
Antliophora horealis, Mor., occurs in N. Germany, and is distinct from 
A. 4t-maculata, F. ; errors in Dours's monograph of the genus are pointed 
out. F. Morawitz, Hor. Ent. Ross. ix. pp. 152 & 153. 
Xylocopa mesoxantha, Lep., ? = perversa, Wied. (from Java), the $ of 
the latter and $ of the former being figured. C. Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. 
(2) viii. pp. 221-223, pi. x. figs. 1-3. 
Baltimore orioles decapitate carpenter-bees, and take the honey from 
their abdomens; Campbell (from "American Artizan"), Nature, viii. p. 253. 
Psithyrus lugubris, Kriechb. The author describes a $ from South 
Tyrol, dubiously referred by him to this species. Verh. z.-b. Wien. xxiii. 
pp. 65 & 66. 
Bomhi in the Swiss Alps : MT. schw. ent. Ges. iv. pp. 151 & 152. 
Bomhus fragrans^ distinguendus, mesomelas, and equestris : observations 
on their affinities by Kriechbaumer, S. E. Z. xxxiv. pp. 335-338. B. mon- 
tanus, Gerst., nec Lep., is re-named alticola : id. I. c. p. 339. 
Bomhus soroensis, Panz. (? F.), has 3 forms, the 2nd of which is^;ro^e4<s, 
Gerst., the 3rd not named ; its confused synonymy is discussed, and 
diagnostic characters given : Schenck, B. E. Z. xvii. pp. 243-246. 
Variations in colour, &c., in other species are noticed ; B. lucorum and 
terrestris are not specifically separable ; B. tristis and fieheranus, Seidl., 
= muscorum, F., varr. ; B. mniorum, Schi., = agrorum, F., var. ; B. 
equestris, Schi., arenicola, Thoms., = sylvarum, var..; id. I. c. pp. 246-248. 
Trigona. A small species is supposed to suck the secretions of a 
Memhracis (? : Homoptera) found on Cassia, multijuga at St. Catharina, 
Brazil ; it has also been seen sucking putrefying pieces of a toad and a 
hen, and juice flowing from trees. H. Miiller, Nature, viii. p. 201, 
figs. 1-3 : cf. W. E. Hart, op. cit. p. 263. 
Apis mellifica. Bees in the San Joaquin Valley, California, collect and 
fill their comb-cells with honey-dew and manna, though these substances 
are never mixed in the same cell. The ' manna ' is supposed not to be 
an insect secretion. J. Applegarth, P. Cal. Ac. v. p. 42. 
