HYMENOPTERA. 
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Ojmia ba'icalensis, Radoszkowsky, 1. c. p. 80, Lake Baical. 
Osmia Ugurica, Morawitz, Horse Soc. Ent. Ross. v. p. 160, and O. scutel- 
larts, Morawitz, 1. c, p. 161, Nice. 
Ileriades foveolata, Morawitz, 1. c. p. 162, Nice. 
VeSPIDA5. 
E. L. Ormerod has published in a small volume a very good 
history of the British Social Wasps, the greater part of which is 
devoted to the description of the anatomy and physiology and of 
the oeconomy of these insects. The characters of the species are 
indicated, pp. 35-47, ami illustrated by good figures of the three 
forms of each, with outline diagrams of the markings of the face, 
as follows : — Vespa crabro, pi. 1 ; V. britannica [ = norvegica) , 
pi. 2. fig. 1 ; V. sylvestris { = hols atica = camp anaria) ^ pi. 2. fig. 2 ; 
V. arborea [ — boi'ealis) , pi. 3. fig. 1 j V. germanica, pi. 3. fig. 2 ; 
V. vulgaris, pi. 4. fig. 1 ; and V. rufa, pi. 4. fig. 2. The re- 
mainder of the plates are occupied by figures of the nests of the 
various species. The mode of increase of the nests is shown on 
plates 5 and 6, which contain figures of the very early nests of 
a Tree- Wasp (pi. 5. fig. 1) and V. crabro (pi. 6. fig. 1) and of 
later nests of V. britannica ? (pi. 5. fig. 2) and V. sylvestris (pi. 6. 
fig. 2) . The nest of V. crabro is figured in pi. 7 ; that of V. 
vulgaris in pi. 8; that of V . germanica in pi. 9 ; that of V. rufa 
in pi. 10; that of V. britannica in pi. 11, and its interior in 
pi. 14; that of V. sylvestris in pi. 12. Plate 13 shows four 
nests made successively by the same swarm of V. britannica in 
a hedge. 
Lucas notices a nest of Polistes gallica constructed in part of blue paper, 
the insect having been confined in a room where this material was to be 
found. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. xxv-xxvi. This observation is confirmed 
by Giraud by an observation made upon a nest of Polistes found in the open 
forest. Ibid. p. xxvii. 
Morawitz (Horae Soc. Ent. Ross, v.) refers to the varieties of several spe- 
cies of this family. Eumenes fulva and tahida (Eversm.) are vars. of E. di- 
midiatus (Brull(l), 1. c. pp. 146, 146 ; Odynerus simplex, $ var. described, 1. c. 
p. 146; O.Jloricola (Sauss.) = ? epliippimn (Germ.), described with numerous 
varieties, 1. c. p. 147 ; O. opacus and hallioni (Mor.), vars.,/. c. p. 148 ; O. lim- 
hiferus (Mor.), var., 1. c, p. 149 ; O. phaleratus (Panz.), vars., ibid. ; O. lati- 
palpis = Ptcrocheiliis 2 ^cdl(isii (King), ibid. 
Odynerus basalis (Smith) is described and figured b}'- Smith as a new 
British species. Ent. Ann. 1869, p. 73, front, fig. 1. 
New species : — 
Sybillina, g. n., Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 329. Allied to 
B elonog aster (?). Sp. S. cenigmatica, sp. n., Westwood, 1. c. p. 329, Hayti. 
Odynerus rufinodus, Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 381, and O. toas, 
Cresson, ibid.. New Mexico. 
J^erochilus lewisii, Cresson, 1. c. p. 382, New Mexico. 
