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Sci. Goss. 1871, pp. 15-17, fig. 12. Mimn’s amplified edition of Sevan’s 
^ Honey-Bee ’ is reviewed in Ent. M. M. vii. p. 262. Bevan Fox (Gard. Cliron. 
Jan. 16, 1871) refers to “ encasement ” of queen-bees. Mantegazza (‘ L’lgea,’ 
Jan. 1871) records experiments upon the poison of the hee. Penny (Ent. v. 
p. 316) refers to an instance of a hee being caught by a spider that mimicked 
the stigmata of Barharea vulgaris. 
New species : — 
Epeolus nigriventrisj Walker, /. c. p. 61, Tajura. 
Megilla caligata, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 349 (? Zanzibar). 
Allodape syrphoides^ Walker, 1. c. p. 60, and $ var., Tajura ; A. troclianUrata^ 
Jlavitarsis, Wanga, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 350. 
Ccdioxys angulata, Smith, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 192, N.-W. India ; C. antica and 
rujispina^ Walker, 1. c. p. 61,IIarkeko. 
Stelis dimidiattiSf id. 1. c. p. 49, Bed Sea. 
Jleriadcs glutinosus, Giraud, 1. c. p. 389, Saragossa (lives in old nests of Bo- 
lopomSj Chalicodoma, and Anthophora). 
Osmia contracta, Walker, 1. c. p. 47, Bed Sea. 
Mcgachile fulvescens, p. 47, inornata, injicita^ despccta, p. 48, Arabia, aduslUj 
p. 47, Bed Sea, conjiciia^ p. 48, Cairo : id. 1. c. M. proxima^ Smith, 1. c., N.-W. 
India (habits «S:c. recorded by Horne, ibid. p. 177). 
Anthidium suhochraceuniy p. Mt. Sinai, signiferum, p. 60, Bed Sea: 
Walker, 1. c. 
Eucera fulvescens^ p. 52, ampla and pilosa, 63, Cairo ; cinerascens., Arabia, 
p. 62 ; id. 1. c. 
Tetralonia macrognatha, Gerstacker, 1. c., Monibas ; T. blanda and vetusta^ 
p. 63, amccna and decora^ p. 54, Bed Sea, invaria, Cairo, spoliaia^ Mt. Sinai, 
p. 64, Walker, 1. c. 
Anthophora annulifera (? — calens, var., sec. auct.f p. 66, hdescens, p. 66, 
p>auperata, illepiday p. 67, sujm ans, p. 68, Arabia ; senilis^ p. 65, melaleuca, p. 66, 
Cairo ; himaculifera, cana^ p. 66, bimaculifera [again], punctifrons {? = himaculi- 
ferUy var., sec. auct.f pulverea, p. 67, inclyta, p. 58, Bed Sea : id. 1. c. 
Bombus atrocinctus (pi. xxi. f. 13) and terminalis, Smith, 1. c. p. 193, N.-W. 
India ; impetuosus, id. Proc. Z. S. 1871, p. 249, pi. xviii. f. 8, Yunan. 
Trigona rujicornis^ id. Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 194, N.-W. India (habits recorded by 
Horne, ibid. p. 185). 
Apis laboriosa, id. Proc. Z. S. 1871, p. 249, pi. xviii. f. 7, Yunnan. 
Vespid^e. 
Ceramius lusitaniciis. Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. pp. 375-379, re- 
cords the economy of this species, which bores a hole in the ground, and 
supplies its burrow with a chimney, like Odynerm. 
Eumenes conica and esuriens^ Odynerus punctum, Bhynchium carnaticpm^ 
brunneum, and nitidulum : habits recorded, and imago (with cells &c.) 
figured, by Home, Tr. Z. S. vii. pp. 166-168, pi. x. Icaria variegaia (pi. xx. 
figs. 8, rt, & 9) and PoUstes hebrmus and stigma^ Vespa velutina, 
07’ientaliSf and cincta : habits &c. recorded, id. 1. c. p. 169 et seq. 
Bhynchium h'mmeum. Smith refers to a specimen found by Hr. Birch on 
unrolling an Egyptian mummj’^, and repeats Owen’s statement that biei’o- 
