350 
HYMENOPTERA. 
' Annals of Bee-culture for 1872 ' ; a Bee-keeper's year-book, Louis- 
ville, Kentucky, 1872, 8vo, pp. 64, edited by D. L. Adair, appears to be a 
new annual of more than usually scientific character, judging from notice 
in Am. Nat. vii. p. 43. 
A hive constructed by L. Ridolfi is referred to in Bull. Ent. Ital. v. 
p. 67, as described and figured in the "Effemeridi del Comizio agrario di 
Firenze,' v. p. 93. 
M. Girard records Lance's experiments, by which he obtains honey from 
any particular flowers ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. ccxii. He records 
circular combs ; I.e. p. ccxxxAdi. 
Hive-bees ' recognizing individuals ' : J. Potts, Ent. vi. p. 415. 
The queen-bee does not and cannot sting ; she inserts her sting into 
one of the spiracles of her adversary : W. A. Munn, Sci. Goss, 1873, 
p. 251. W. Carr, op. cit. p. 273, adopts this opinion, and gives personal 
observation on impregnation of the queen-bee, and on unusual phenomena 
in swarming. 
Elaborate observations upon barren bee-eggs, in connection with the 
doctrine of parthenogenesis, are made by C. Glaus & C. v. Siebold, Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxiii. pp. 198-210, figs. 1 & 2. 
C. T. von Siebold's "Mittheilung iiber die Speichelorgane der Biene" 
(Nordlingen, 1872) has not been seen by the Recorder : it is translated 
in P. E. Soc. 1873, p. v. 
New species : — 
Paniirgus cethiops, p. 259, albitarsis, ornatipes^ p. 260, picipes^ p. 261. 
Texas, Cresson, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. 
Osmia tricuspidata, p. 2d3,ruJicolUs, microgramma, p. 297, Grecian Archi- 
pelago, cincta, p. 295, cinctella, p. 296, G. Archipelago and Algeria, mucidd, 
p. 293, 2)seudaurulenta, p. 294, Algeria, Dours, R. Z. (3) i. ; 0. taurus, F. 
tSmith, I. c. p. 201, Hiogo ; 0. texana and subfasciata, Cresson, /. c. p. 261, 
Texas. 
Lithurgus collaris, F. Smith, I. c. p. 202, Hakodadi. 
Chalicodoma nobilis [-le], ip. 298, S. France, Algeria, luctuosa[-su?)i], 
p. 299, leuco-pogonata [rectius albibarbatum'],ip. 300, Grecian Archipelago, 
Dours, I. c. 
Megachile fortis, comata, p. 262, albitarsis, p. 263, dlsparilis, p. 264, 
arnica, exilis, -p. 265, facunda,friigalis, p. 266, gentilis, inimica, lucrosa, 
p. 267, grandis, optiva, nupta, p. 268, studiosa, osmioides, p. 269, variolom, 
p. 270, Texas, Cresson, 1. c. ; M. dimidiativentris, p. 300, Algeria, mon- 
tenegremis, p. 301, Grecian Archipelago and Algeria, clavicrus, p. 302, 
Grecian Archipelago, Dours, /. c. 
Anthidium Iceviventre, p. 303, Spain, Montpelher, undidatum, p. 304, 
Montpellier, stigmaticorne, p. 305, Algeria, Dours, I. v. ; A. 4-seriatum, 
and var. circuiricinctum, Krieclibaumer, Verh. z.-b. Wieu, xxiii. p. 63, 
Corfu, Syra, Bozen ; A. zebratum and concinnum, Cresson, I. c p. 270, 
Texas. 
Normuht pyrosoma, p. 308, tridentiroiitrLs, p. 309, Algiers, Dours, /. v. ; 
N.jdpviiiai and fervem, Smith, I. r. p. 203, Hiogo ; N. texana, Cresson. 
/. r. p. 271 , Texas, 
