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five excursions in an hour ; they will enter a strange hive without molesta- 
tation j their ‘ affection ’ for each other is merely for the sake of the 
honey j they are much affected by light, and can distinguish colours, but 
are not affected by sounds, however loud and penetrating. Wasps seem 
more clever than bees in finding their way ; i^ake about the same 
number of excursions per hour ; are also capable of distinguishing 
colours, and apparently regardless of sound. An individual of Polistes 
gallica was kept for nine months, and tamed enough to bear handling. 
Marshall, T. A. New British species, corrections of Nomenclature, &c. 
Ent. Ann. 1874, pp. 114-146. 
Refers to Cynipidoe, Ichneunionidoi, Braconidoiy and Proctotrypidm, and 
contains valuable original remarks on habits, &c., including bibliography 
of the chief literature of parasitic Cytiipidce^ and a list of species of 
Ichneumonid(B and Braconidce bred from various other insects (chiefly 
Lepidoptera)^ with the names of the latter. One new genus and 3 new 
species are described, and some synonymy is given. 
MocsIry, a. Zur Hymenopteren-Fauna Siebenbiirgens. Verh. siebenb. 
Yer. xxiv. pp. 117-122. 
Not seen by the Recorder. 50 Tenthredinidce are included in it, teste 
Zaddach, Schr. Ges. Konigsb. xvi. p. 35. 
Morawitz, F. Die Biunon Daghestiius. Hor. Ent. Ross. x. pp. 
129-189. 
138 species (some new), in 34 genera (1 new). 
SCHLECHTENDAL, D. H. R. VON. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Fauna 
von Zwickau. Verzeichniss der bisher bei Zwickau beobachteten 
Blatt-, Holz-, Gall-, Raub-, und Falten-wespen. JB. Yer. Zwickau, 
1871 [1872], pp. 25-38. 
A more list of names of known species, with occasional observations. 
The author publishes a first supplement, op. cit. 1872 [1873], pp. 2-14, pi. 
Biedke, II. Bidrag til Norges Insoktfauna. Borotning om en i Ostor- 
dalen foretagen Reise i. 1870. N. Mag. Naturv. xix. (1873) pp. 
39-102. 
Not seen by the Recorder. 37 species of Tenthredinidce and Uroceridce 
are recorded, pp. 60-62 {teste Zaddach, ut supra). 
Yollenhoven, S. 0. Snellen van. Pinacographia. Illustrations of 
more than 1000 species of North- West-European Ichneumonidse 
sensu Linnaeano. Afbeeldingen van meer dan 1000 Soorten van 
Noordwest - Europeesche Sluipwespen (Ichneumones sensu Lin- 
naeano). ’s Gravenhage ; 1875 [published in 1874], 4to, pp. 1-8, 
pis. i.-iv. 
The above-mentioned part is the commencement of a book of refer- 
ence (written in Dutch and English) for good figures of entomophagous 
Hymenoptera, the letterpress being subservient to the plates. New 
species are described in it. 
