VESPIDiR, CEABRONIDiE. 
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Vespid^. 
Paragia decipieris, Shuck., $ described from S. Australia; the species 
is much stylopized (Xenus sp ?). Confusion in the nomenclature of P. 
tricolor^ Smith, pointed out. Kriechbaumer, S. E. Z. xxxv. pp. 254 
& 255. 
Odynerus. The species noted by Reaumur is probably 0. crassicornis, 
Wesm., of which the habits are recorded ; J. Lichtenstein, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) iv. p. Ixxxvi. On the habits and metamorphoses of 0. rubi- 
cola ; M. Rc%imbart, Feuil. Nat. No. 44, pp. 89-91. 
Polistes. The aggregated clay nests described by Uhler [Zool. Rec. x. 
p. 352] are to be referred to Pelopceus lunatus^ F., and not to any merdber 
of this genus, which makes paper-like cells and nests. C. V. Riley, Ann, 
Nat. viii. p. 229. 
Observations on common British wasps ; H. Reeks, Ent. vii. pp. 222- 
224. F. Smith, tom. cit. p. 257, corrects and supplements these notes. 
Masaris occidentalis and texanas, spp, nn., E. T. Cresson, Tr. Arn. Ent. 
Soc. iii. (1871) p. 348, Texas. 
Eiimcnes ivalkeri, sp. n., 0. Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. xvii. p. 199, pi. xi. 
fig. 7, Lower Ouinca. 
BeloJiogaster hrunneus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 202, Lower Guinea. 
Polistes inornatuSy sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 203, pi. xi. fig, 8, Lower Guinea. 
Vespa occidentalis, sp. n., E. T. Cresson, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p, 100, 
Nevada, New Mexico. 
Ceabronid.®. 
Tlermami Bunnoistor, Bol. Ac. Cordova, i. pp. 30-47, in ‘ Scolim 
Argcntinin,’ discusses the species of the old genus Scolia attributed to 
Montevideo by Saussure & Sichel. S. jucunda, Sauss. & S., = rufiventris, 
F., var. ; Elis regina and nigra, Sauss., = atrata, Kl., = peregrina, Lep., 
varr. ; Scolia lucasia, Sauss., = servillii, Gu6r,, var. ; ^ oi S. mutanda, 
Sauss., described {Elis variegata, Sauss., being wrongly attributed to it 
as that sex by Saussure) ; Elis fossor, Sauss., = S. variegata, F. ; 10 species 
in all are recognized from La Plata, 
Tiphia inornata, Say. Parasitic on Lachnosterna quercina, and itself 
fed on by Emmenadia pectinata,^ F., var. ventralis (Rhipidophorida) ; its 
habits, t^c., described and figured. C. V. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. vi. pp. 
123-126, fig. 31. 
Pompilus rufipes, Tasch., nec Eversm., is re-named taschenhergi ; C. 
Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. xvii. p. 137. 
Sphex spirifex. Structure r>f colls and their store of iiisoct-food do- 
Bci’ii)od briefly and figured ; Feuil. Nat. No. 10, p. 38, pi. ii. figs. 2-0. 
Ampulex. Habits of the European species noted ; A. europoia, Gir., 
■=. fasciata, Jur, ; this insect is not congeneric with compressa, on which 
Jurine founded the genus Ampulex, and is dubiously referred to Rhinop- 
sis, Westw. ; Kriechbaumer, S. E. Z. xxxv. pp. 51-54. 
Piagetia wcerdeni, Rits., treated as new [Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. p. 121 ; 
Nov. 1872], and figured ; C. Ritsema, 1. c. pp. 195-197, pi. xi. fig. 6. 
