ANTHOPHILA. 
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many observations to the species recorded in his first communi- 
cation. He also describes eight more new species, and charac- 
terizes one new genus. 
Walsh, Benjamin D. On the group Eurytomides of the Hy- 
menopterous family Chalcididge : with remarks on the theory 
of species, and a description of Antigaster, a new and very 
anomalous genus of Chalcididse. Amer. Ent. & Bot. ii. pp. 
297-301, 329-335, 367-370, figs. 1-10. 
This posthumous paper was intended by W alsh to form an ap- 
pendix to an article on the “ Joint-worm {Isosoma hordei) 
published in Amer. Ent. i. ; and species described in it are re- 
ferred to in that article, pp. 156 & 157 ; but his final conclu- 
sion was to publish it in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Cresson, how- 
ever, after Walsh^s death, returned the paper to Riley, who 
published it as above, completing the description of Antigaster 
by the characters of $ , bred by him. One new genus and 14 
new species are characterized in it, and many original and most 
interesting observations are incidentally made upon dimorphism 
&c. in Cynips. 
. On a species of Hemiteles {Ichneumonidm) ascertained to 
be parasitic in Canada on the imported Currant Worm-fly 
{Nematus ventricosusy King). Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 9-12 
(Oct. 1869). 
Contains general observations upon, and a table of, the Ame- 
rican species of Hemiteles , with description of one new species. 
Smith (Pr. E. Soc. 1870, p. xix) gives a list of Hymmoptera collected 
at Nagasaki by Lewis, of which about twenty appear to be undescribed. 
On the whole, this collection is stated to be decidedly European in appear- 
ance. 
CoupEB (Canad. Ent. ii. p. 68) briefly describes an unknown Hymeno- 
pterous gall at the roots of the raspberry, Ottawa and Labrador. 
Gillet de Gbandmont (Bull. Soc. Acclim. 2nd ser. vi. p. 299) gives an 
account of a bee-hive constructed by Van^on. 
Anthophila. 
Andrenides. 
Thomson (Opusc. Ent. pp. 305-316) describes 35 Swedish species of 
Hyloius, Halictiis, Colletes, and Rhophites, of which three are treated as 
new, one {Hal. ahdominalisy Panz., = cylindricuSf F.) evidently by acci- 
dent. 
Prosopis IcBvigata^ Eversm., —propinqua, Nyl. : Moraw., Ilor. Ent. Ross. vii. 
p. 324. 
IIensel (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 190) suspects Prosopis atmidaris, Sm., to be the 
5 of P. dilatata, Kby. 
