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INSECTA, HYMENOPTERA. 
haustive and depreciatory criticism, of the compiler’s treatment, in a literary 
more than an entomological view, cf. Dunning, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 212 
et seq. 
Smith, Frederick. [See Horne.] 
. [See Moore, General Subject.^^] 
Walker, Francis. A List of Hymenoptera collected by J. K. 
Lord, Esq., in Egypt, in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea, 
and in Arabia ; with descriptions of the New Species. 
London : 1871, pp. 59. 
The title sufficiently explains this work, except that the new species can- 
not with truth be said to he described in it. 293 species are enumerated. 
The Crahronidce and Cerceridce (of the Fossores) and the Eumenidce (of the 
Diploptera) are treated as members of the Nyssotiidce, and the Andrenidce are 
made to include Osmiay Xylocopa^ &c. 
Rondani (cf. General Subject ”) begins, in Bull. Ent. Ital. iii., a catalogue 
of parasitic insects in alphabetical order, in which he discusses the Ilymeno^ 
ptera, reaching Ichneumon. 
The larvfB of a hymenopterous parasite upon Pimelia are referred to by 
Scudder, Am. Nat. v. p. 788. 
Dorset. Rare species are recorded by Dale (Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p. xxiv) 
from this county. 
Wassenaarsche sand-hills. Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. (2) vi. p. 48, gives a 
list of species taken here, either rare or new to the Dutch fauna. 
Alpes dauphinoises. Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) i. Bull. p. xlix, records 
rare and new species from this district, some of them being fully treated else- 
where in the same publication. 
Wallis. Dietrich (Ent. Bliitt. p. 21) gives a list of species occurring in this 
Canton. 
Nova Scotia. Walker (Oanad. Ent. iii. p. 197) gives a short list of species 
named by Smith from this country. 
APIDiE. 
Andrenides. 
Puton, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) i. p. 91, describes both sexes of an insect 
which he attributes to Prosopis dilatata, K., but which (p. 92, note) he after- 
wards states Hensel. According to his observations, the mem- 
bers of the genus are not parasitic upon Ostnia, but make their own nests. 
Hylceus. Forster (Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxi. pp. 872-1084) monographs this 
genus, repudiating the almost universally accepted name of Prosopis, on ac- 
count of Prosopis, L. (Leguminosce). The generic and specific characters are 
given at very great length j and the author describes 94 species (including 68 
considered new, besides 13 of which he is uncertain). The following ob- 
servations occur: — Mellinus lahiatus, F., = H. variegatus,^., <S , p. 890; JT. rinki, 
Gorski, is redescribed, p. 900 ; anmdaris, Kby., Sm.,=^dilatatus, Kby., Sm.,$ 
\cf. Zool. Rec. vii. p. 337]; nitidiusculus, Sch]i.,=:nigritus, F., of which tuber- 
cidatus, — atratus, F., is the cl*, p* 919 ; annulatus, L., is retained, instead of 
