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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
SAPYGIDiE. 
Taschenberg (Hym. Deutschl.) describes four German spe- 
cies of this family belonging to the genera Sapyga and Polo- 
chrum of Latreille. 
SCOLIID^. 
Taschenberg (Hym. Deutschl. p. 225) tabulates the genera 
belonging to this family found in Germany : namely^ Tiphia 
(Fab.), Scolia (Fab.), and. ikfma (Lat.). Under the latter he 
includes Bethylus and Elis as subgenera. Its German represen- 
tative is M. tripunctata, Latr. 
Giraud stated ^ks^tBethylus depressus (Fab.) siad Methoca domestica (Lat.) 
were c? and $ of one species, to which he gave the name of Pristocera de- 
pressa, F. Low confirms this statement, and says that he has found the two 
forms in copula. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 953. 
MUTILLIDiE, 
Under this family Taschenberg (Hym. Deutschl. p. 228) 
tabulates the three genera Mutilla, Myrmosa, and Methoca. Of 
the first he describes only three species, regarding the synonymy 
and probably the stability of the other described forms as rather 
doubtful. 
Radochkoffsky (Bull. Soif. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. pt. 1) adds Mutilla quinque- 
punctata (Oliv.) to tlie list of Russian MutillcCy and gives a description of it 
(1. c. p. 299). He also describes and figures red varieties of M. coronata and 
iff. hungarica (Fab.), 1. c. p. 301, pi. 9. figs. 2 & 3 ; and remarks that his spe- 
cies M. taurica and discoidalis will probably have to be united with M. torosa 
(Costa). A long list of errata in his former paper (see ‘ Record,’ 1865, 
pp. 545 & 546), chiefly relating to references to figures, also includes a 
notice that the name of his new species, pctiolaris," is to be changed 
to unipetiolaris^’ (1. c, p. 303). A new species described will be cited 
below. 
F. Low has taken Methoca domestica $ in copulation with Bethylus de- 
pressus c? (see above). 
Mutilla hallioniy sp. n., Radochkoffsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. 1. p. 300, 
pi. 9. fig. 1, Crimea. 
FoRMICIDiE. 
Under this family Taschenberg (Hym. Deutschl.) admits the 
three subfamilies Formicidm, PoneridcBy and Myrmicida, which he 
tabulates (p. 232) . He also gives tables of the genera lielonging 
to each of these groups in accordance with the characters pre- 
sented by the different sexes. The total number of genera 
characterized is 16. The species are for the most part very 
briefly characterized ; but the author has extracted a synony- 
mic list of the European Ants from Roger^s Catalogue of the 
Formicidie, published in the Berl. ent. Zeitschrift, Band vii. 
Mayr (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. pp. 885-908, taf. 20) gives de- 
