COCCINELLIDiE, HYMENOPTERA. 
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A classified descriptive "account of the known species of the Argentine 
States; 0. Berg, Bol. Ac. Cordova, i. pp. 284-293. Epilachna cBquinoc- 
tialis, Muls., = pcenulata^ Grerm., var. ; id. 1. c. p. 292. Observations on 
its metamorphoses, and ravages caused by it in La Plata ; D. H. Weyen- 
bergh, Anales de Agi’icultura, i. p. 69. 
Coccinellor hipunctata devouring about 60 eggs of a Lepidopterous 
insect ; J. E. Fletcher, Ent. M. M. xi. p. 85. 
Coccinella 11-punctata^ 01., is the same as Linnaeus’s species of that 
name, and Reiche’s proposed name, ccgyptiaca, for it is, therefore, not 
needed. G. Kraatz, B. E. Z. xviii. p. 303. 
Ihjperaspis erythrocepliala^ F., from Derbent. Observations on its 
characters and the confusion concerning it in catalogues, &d. ; id. 1. c. p. 
301. H. Ai-maculata Redt., and Q-guttata, Bris. ; dilferential characters 
discussed ; id. 1. c. p. 302. 
Lasia meridionalis, Mots., = glohosa, Schn. ; Hyperaspis concolor^ 
Suffr., is probably specifically distinct from campestris^ Hbst. ; E. Abeille, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iv. pp. ccxxv. & ccxxvi. 
Lithophilus cordatus exudes from its joiu^ts a liquid precisely similar 
to tliat secreted by Coccinella ; Putoii, tom. cit. p. ccl. 
Scymnus pusillus, Berg, 1. c. p. 293, Palermo, La Plata ; S. pacijicus, 
coniferarnm, phelpsiy G. R. Crotch, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 77, California : 
spp. nn. 
HYMENOPTEliA. 
BY 
E. C. Rye, F.Z.S. 
The General Subject. 
Dours, a. Catalogue synonymique des ^ym(5uopt^rcs do Franco. 
M4m. Soc. L. N. Fr. iii. (1872-1873). [Reviewed, R. Z. (3) ii. pp. 
xl.-xlii. ; Pet. Nouv. vi. p. 389 ; Feuil. Nat. No. 44, p. 97.] 
The first Catalogue of the Order published in France. 2700 species 
are contained in it, with full synonymy, and notes of parasitism, &c. 
Lubbock, Sir John. Observations on Bees and Wasps. J. L, S. xii. 
pp. 110-139. 
An account of experiments made with the view of discovering the extent 
of the power of inter-communication possessed by these insects, and show- 
ing that no such power exists ; bees, indeed, being stated to be much less 
clever in finding things than was expected. Bees make, on the average, 
