THE GENERAL SUBJECT, APIDiE. 
385 
A method of setting and preserving specimens on frames ; J. B. 
Bridgman, Sci. Goss. 1875, pp. 217 & 218, figs. 140-142. Cf. also pp. 269 
& 270, 
Kirchner’s ‘ Catalogus Hymenopterorum Europse ’ criticized ; Snellen 
van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xviii. Versl. pp. Ixxvii.-lxxxi. 
Dours^ Collection ; Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 493. Giraud’s, 1. c. p. 516. 
Apidje. 
Morawitz, F. In A. Fedchenko’s Puteshestvie v Turkestan [Travels 
in Turkestan] ; Zoogeographicheskia Izledovania, Series 9, vol. ii. 
part 5, Pcheli {Mellifera), fasc. 1, pp. 1-160. St. Petersburg and 
Moscow : 1875, 4to. • 
Issued in Nachr. Ges. Mosc. [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 250], xix., and commences 
the discussion of the Apidm observed by the late A. Fedchenko in his 
explorations of Turkestan (255 species, mostly new). Some of the 
species are by Fedchenko in MS. 
Andrenides. 
Sphecodes. Von Hagens, Deutsche E. Z. 1875, pp. 315-319, discusses 
the German species, with especial reference to Thomson’s characters. /S. 
reticulatus, Thoms., ? = distinguendus, Hag., and S. pilifrons, Thoms., ? 
= hrevicornis, Hag. ; S. brevis, p. 317, ruhicundus and variegatus, p. 318> 
are named and (more or less) characterized in a colloquial manner, as 
new species, presumably from Diisseldorf. 
Halictus and Prosopis. Various observations on the affinities &c. of 
certain species found in Nassau ; Schenck, Deutsche E. Z. 1875, pp» 
321-327. 
Nomia. F. Smith, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, pp. 42-48, 53-70, pis. i. & ii., describes 
and figures various species, including N. curvipes, F. (? ? Eucera crassipes, 
F.), ? , from India, p. 42, pi. i. fig. 8. N. humeralis, Duf., = diversipes, 
Latr., fig. 1, and N. monstrosa, Costa, = difformis, Panz., fig. 2, posterior 
legs of ^ figured ; id. 1. c. pi. ii. 
J. O. Westwood, tom. cit. pp. 207-222, pis. iv. & v., also describes and 
figures various new species of this genus, supplementing some of Smith's 
species. N. silhetica, Westw. MS., Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., = aurifrons, Sm*, 
of which the ^ is described, p. 212 ; N. comhusta, Sm., pi. iv. figs. 3 & 3a, 
N. tridentata, Sm., pi. iv. figs. 5 & 5a, N. gracilipes, Sm.. pi. v. fig. 2, N\ 
kirhii, Sm., pi. v. fig. 2, figured. 
Cyathocera, g. n., F. Smith, 1. c. p. 47. Closely allied to Nomia, but with 
only two submarginal cells in the anterior wings ; male with two- jointed 
club to the antennsB. C. nodicornis, sp. n., ib. ibid., pi. i. fig. 5, Lucknow 
and Barrackpore. 
Monia [anagram of Nomia'], g. n., J. 0. Westwood, 1. c. p. 221. An- 
tennas with apical joint compresso- dilate in ^ , tongue dilated, bifid, hind 
legs comparatively slender and simple. M. grisea, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 222, 
pi. V. fig. 6, Mexico. 
Halictus nigerrimus and quadrifasciatus, p. 321, bifasciatellus, p. 322, 
spp. nn., Schenck, 1. c. Weilburg. 
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