6 
T. D. A. COCKERELL. 
The following comparative measurements are in micromillimeters : 
First recurrent 
First recurrent 
Second recurrent 
nervure from 
nervure (on cubital 
nervure from end of 
beginning of second ] 
nervure) from second 
second submarginal 
submarginal cell. 
recurrent nervure. 
cell. 
Palaeovespa baltica n. sp. 238 
561 
306 
Yespa occidentalis Cresson. 204 
578 
680 
Vespa diabolica Sauss. 187 
272 
816 
Upper end of 
Upper end of basal 
basal nervure 
nervure to base of 
to stigma. 
marginal cell. 
Palaeovespa baltica n. sp. 425 
1088 
Vespa occidentalis Cresson. 748 
1276 
Menge has indicated, without 
figure, a Vespa 
dasypodia from 
Baltic amber 
Apoidea. 
In all, six species of bees have been described from amber; others 
have been referred to as pertaining to Andrena, Anthophora (?) 1 Chali- 
cocloma , Dasypoda aff., Melipona aff., Osmia and Trigona (?) : but spe- 
cific names have not been given, and I believe the generic references 
are cpiite worthless. 
One of the amber bees, — the only one properly described, — 
is Meliponorytes succini Tosi, from Sicilian amber, which is of middle 
miocene age, and therefore very mnch more recent than the Prussian 
or Baltic amber. This Meliponorytes is very close to the modern 
Trigona , and is very distinct from the bees of Prussian amber. 
The four species from Baltic amber, named by Menge and Mot- 
schülsky, have been published in the most insufficient manner. A 
fifth, recently (1906) made known by Buttel -Reepen, is somewhat 
better, but still very imperfectly, known. 
Bombusoides menget Motschulsky (1856) is merely stated to be 
a small Bornbus hardly O /2 line long; it is of course wholly unrecognisable. 
Apis proava Menge is said to be very like the modern honey-bee, 
but about a third smaller, and with bare eyes. The body is 7 mm 
long, to the end of the wings 10 mm. 
Bornbus carbonarius Menge is a small black species, about 10 mm 
long. It is said to resemble among living forms the small black one 
with yellowish-red apex to the abdomen; this being I suppose B. pra- 
torum , or perhaps B. cullumanus. 
