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INSECTA, HYMENOPTERA. 
Maerocera dentata, l£iV&i£S,m.f—Tetraloniapollinosaj Lep. ; Eueera antm- 
nata (F.) = T. malvce (Kossi) : Moraw. /. c. p. 314. 
Eueera canuj crinita, and cantatt'ix, Bar., cineraria, Eversm., pollinosa, 
Smith, Lep. : Moraw. 1. c. p, 312. 
Mobawitz, 1. c, p. 307, redescribes fully Anthophora lepida (Pallas), from 
Sarepta, and adds characters for A. hinotata, Lep. A. pubesems, Lep.,= 
jftahellifera, Lep., $ . 
Xylocopa violacea is recorded from Kholm, in Kussia, below 67° 29' lat. N., 
by Essaouloft* (Trav. prem. Assembl. nat. de Kuss.). 
Gibabd (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4* s6r. ix. Bull. p. Ixx) records S Xylocopa vio- 
lacea with partly transparent wings. 
Xylocopa Carolina (L.) and Anthophora sponsa, Sm., are figured, and de- 
tails of their habits given, in Amer. Ent. i. p. 9, f. 4 & 6. 
Lowne (JovQ’n. Quekett Micros. Club, 1870, p. 46) records some observa- 
tions on the structure of the cornea of a S.-African Xylocopa. 
ScHENCK (S. E. Z. xxxi. p. 106) adduces instances of colour- variation, with 
the apparent but unexpressed idea of not allowing specific value to Bomhus 
martes, Gerst. He strengthens the collocation of B. lucorum and B. terres- 
tris, L., as one species } B. soroensis, K., Lep., = suhterraneus, L. B. col- 
linus, Sm., proteus, Gevat, =so?'oensis, F., cf : teste Schenck, ibid. 
Bomhus acervorum, lj., = subterraneus, L., of which the cT is latreillellus 
(Kby.) [but see Smith, Oat. Brit. Ap. p. 231] ; B. sylvamm, Panz., 
?=burrellanus, Kby. [cf. Smith, 1. c. pp. 217, 220, 227] : Thoms. /. c. p. 252 
et seq. 
Bethune (Oanad. Ent. ii. p. 68) records a humble-bee’s nest made in a 
buffalo’s skin. 
Shimeb (P. Ess. Inst. vi. p. 5) observes S' humble-bees fanning the 
entrance of a nest, in their excitement to obtain access to the $ $ within. 
Apis. The geogi’aphical distribution of the various honey-bees is given by 
Schenck (JB. Ver. Nass. xxi. & xxii. pp. 272 & 273), who adds a list of au- 
thors on the economy of A. mellijica. 
For an exposition of Munn’s views, in dissension from Dzierzon and von 
Siebold, as to the earlier development of Apis mellijica, and especially of the 
queen, cf. Pr. E. Soc. 1870, pp. xxiv-xxviii. 
Kawall (S. E. Z. xxxi. p. 110) records enormous swarmings of the 
honey-bee. 
Ammobatoides [nec Badosz.], g. n., Schenck, JB. Ver. Nass. xxi. & xxii. 
pp. 349 & 364. Max. palpi 3-jointed ; 2 cub. cells, of which the first is 
the larger 5 rad. cell broad and shorty labium much longer than broad j 
scutell. not furcate j post-scutell. with triangular tooth. Sp. A. bicolor (Lep., 
Ammohates). 
New species : — 
Nomada robusta, p. 326, mutabilis, p. 328, cinnabet'ina, p. 330, erythroce- 
phala, p. 331, regalis, p. 332, Saratov : Morawitz, 1. c. 
Nomada rufipes, Schk. 1. c. p. 342 {xanthosticta, Schk. olim, nec K.). 
Nomada 5-spinosa and Iceta, p. 93, rujilabris and villosa, p. 95, glabella and 
punctiseuta, p. 96, Sweden : Thoms. 1. c. 
Ammobates setosus, Moraw. 1. c. p. 309, Saratov and Crimea. 
Pasites punctata, Schk. 1. c. p. 346, Wiesbaden if ^macxdata, Jur.). 
