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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Walker publishes lists of the Formicida, Mutillidce^ SpTiegidce, Apidce, and 
Tentlwedinidce captured by Lord in Vancouver’s Island, Sirex and Chrysis 
represent the last-named family! Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver’s Island 
&c. ii. pp. 341-342. 
Dietrich publishes (Mittli. schw. ent. Gesellsch. ii. pp. 347-372) a list of 
Hymenoptera inhabiting the canton of Zurich. The number of species cited 
is 300. 
Radoszkowsky indicates the species of this order taken by Solsky and 
himself in the St. -Petersburg district. Hora3 Soc. Ent. Ross. v. pp. 167- 
168. 
Smith has published (Ent. Annual, 1869, pp. 65-82) his usual notice of 
advances made in the study of the British Hymenoptera during the past year. 
In his concluding remarks he discusses the question of the origin of the sexes 
in Bees. 
Boisduval (Ent. Ilortic. pp. 363-425) gives a general account of the 
natural history of the insects of this order, referring especially to the Sawflies 
as injurious garden-insects. 
C. Horne notices the habits of some Indian Hymenopterous Insects 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1808, p. xlix). 
Antiiopiiila. 
Radoszkowsky (Horoo Soc. Ent. Ross. v. pp. 73-90) publishes a series of 
notices and descriptions of Russian Bees, several of them new. Several spe- 
cies are merely cited’by name as additions to the Russian lists j others are 
described and figured by the author, or made the subjects of synonymic notes, 
namely : — Fanuryus frontalis (Fab.) = (Spin.)=/«scm^ws (Giraud)j 
Nomia diversipes {Lodx.)=ihumeralis (Costa); N. aiirocincta (Costa); Chalico- 
doma muraria (Fab.) ; Megachile ctt^^ca,s^ca'(Lep.), p. 80, pi. 3. tigs. 9 a, 96 (anus 
of (5) ; Osmia hamata (Eversm.) ; Epeloides amhiguus (Giraud), p. 81, pi. 3. 
fig. 6; Ammohates (Latr.), characterized p. 84, and anal segment figured 
pi. 3. figs. 7a, 76; A. kirhyantis (L^i.)—punctatus {'FQh.) — schottii (Eversm.) 
z=Nomada alhomaeidata (Luc.), p. 84; Fasites schottii (Lni.) = brevicornis 
(Panz.)-j- S otra (Lat.)+/asaa^a (Eversm.), p. 85, anal segment of $ pi. 3. 
figs. 8 a, 86; Bombtis sylvarum (Linn.), with which the author places as va- 
rieties the following forms — equestris (Fab.), veteranus (Fab.), fragrans 
(Pall.), and flavidus (Eversm.), — and suggests that the same may probably be 
done with B. autunmalis (Dahlb.), burellanus (Dalilb.), I'ufoscens (Eversm.), 
and inter cedcns (Nyl.), /. c. pp. 86-90. 
Coclioxys. Smith (Entomologist, iv. pp. 1-9) revises the British species of 
this genus, of which ho admits six — his C. sponsa being now regarded by 
him as tho S of simpldx (Nyl.), whilst C. mandibularis (Nyl.) is restored 
to specific rank. The characters of the species are brietiy indicated by Smith 
(pp. 2-5), and those presented by the apex of the abdomen figured (p. 3, 
figs. 1-18). Smith remarks upon the power possessed by the species of 
Ccelioxys, and some other Bees, of emitting a powerful odour when disturbed 
(pp. 8-9). In the case of the parasitic forms he thinks this may be a pro- 
tective provision. 
Nomada mistura (Smith) is probably the male of N. xanthosticta (Kirby), 
according to Bold. Bold also notices the characters and habits of N. borealis 
(Zett.). Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 284. 
