386 
HYMBNOPTERA. 
Prosopis trimaculata and discrepansy spp. nn., Schenck, 1. c. p. 326, 
Weilburg. 
Nomia oxyleloideSy p. 42, pi. i. fig. 6, aurifronSy p. 43, elliotiy fig. 7, and 
aimilUma, fig. 4, p. 44, scutellata, p. 45, antennatay p. 46, fig. 9, and tho” 
racicuy p. 45, fig. 10, various Indian localities, the last also from China ; 
N. capitata and clypeatay pi. ii. fig. 18, p. 54, hasalis and ferviday fig. 12, 
p. 55, comhustay fig. 9, and pilipesy p. 56, various Indian localities, ter- 
minatay p. 56, Birmah, carinatay Ceylon, albo-fasciatay Java, fuscipennisy 
Sumatra, p. 57, quadridentatay p. 58, fig. 6, floraliSy p. 58, opposita and 
chalyheatay fig. 5, p. 59, China, australicay fig. 11, and mcerensQ = generosay 
$ ), p. 60, generosa and gracilipeSy p. 61, nana and ruficornisy fig. 7, and 
dentiventriSy fig. 15, p. 62, cerata smd cenea, fig. 13, p. 63, various Australian 
localities, niloticay p. 63, White Nile, rufipes, p. 64, fig. 3, rubellay p. 65, 
fig. 17, Gambia, tridentatay p. 64, fig. 10, Cape of Good Hope and 
Gambia, lamellata, p. 65, fig. 8,. Gambia and Egypt, cinerascens and pro- 
ductay fig. 16, and serratulay p. 66, Natal, rufitarsis, p. 67, Angola, armatay 
p, 67, fig. \4i,fulvo-hirtay Candida, diud nubecula, p. 68, and tegulata,Tg. 69, 
Sierra Leone, and N. (? g. n.) hirbii, p. 69, figs. 19 & 20, Brazil or 
Mexico, F. Smith, 1. c. (the figures, except in the first species, being of the 
posterior leg in the $)\ N. buddha, p. 205, pi. iv. fig. 1, syTcesiana, p. 211, 
pi. iv. fig. 2, iridescens, p. 213, E. India, punctata, p. 213, China, rustica, 
p. 214, Ceylon, caliday p. 215, pi. iv. fig. 4, tropical Africa, patelliferay 
p. 216, pi. iv. fig. 6, Cape of Good Hope, cressoni, p. 218, fig. 3, ccelestina, 
p. 220, fig. 4, pi. V., Mexico, taraalia, p. 221, pi. v. fig. 5, Brazil, J. O. 
Westwood, 1. c. : spp. nn. 
Apides. 
Osmia zxA Anthidium. Zonitis, 3 spp., and various Tlymenoptera and 
Diptera recorded as parasites upon these bees ; Sir S. S. Saunders, Proc. 
E. Soc. 1875, pp. xvii. & xxv. 
Megachile centrunculua, Smith. On its habits in Canada ; Nat. Canad. 
vii. p. 58^ et seq. 
Xylocopa neglecta, Bits., ? = F., var. ; C. Ritsema, Tijdschr. 
Ent. xviii. p. 149. 
BombuSy Anthidium, SteliSy and Epeoloides. Observations on syno- 
nymy, varieties, and habits, of various species found in Nassau ; 
arenicolay Thoms., ? = veteranuSy F. : Schenck, Deutsche E. Z. 1875, 
pp. 328-332. 
Bombus pennsylvanicus and virginicuSy Xylocopa virginicay and Apis 
mellifica perforating the vexillum of flowers of Wistariay and hybridism 
in Qucurbita brought about by some of these bees ; T. G. Gentry, Am. 
Nat. ix. pp. 263-267. 
Melipona. On the Brazilian species, and the possibiUty of their accli- 
matization in Europe ; F. Muller, Zool. Gart. Feb. 1875. 
Apis mellifica. R. Leuckart, Arch. f. Nat. xli. 1, pp. 58-69, discusses 
various opinions upon the physiology of barren and aborted bee-eggs, 
and gives details of his own experiments, resulting in a corroboration of 
Claus and Von Siebold’s opinion, that the so-called barren bee-eggs are 
not actually barren, but only appear so as the embryo developed in 
